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Radio Milwaukee's top 100 albums of 2018

You voted online to help us pick 88Nine’s top 100 albums of 2018 and all day on New Year's Eve, we counted down the results. Dori, Marcus and Ken revealed them one by one on air to celebrate the music that made 2018 better. But if you missed it then, here are the albums below because even though 2019 is here, we'll probably still be listening to these 2018 releases for a long time.

The top 100 albums of 2018


  1. Janelle Monáe - "Dirty Computer"
  2. Courtney Barnett - "Tell Me How You Really Feel"
  3. Father John Misty - "God's Favorite Customer"
  4. Mitski - "Be the Cowboy"
  5. Brandi Carlile - "By The Way, I Forgive You"
  6. Florence + the Machine - "High As Hope"
  7. Ariana Grande - "Sweetener"
  8. Chvrches - "Love Is Dead"
  9. Beach House - 7
  10. Boygenius - Boygenius
  11. Leon Bridges - Good Thing
  12. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
  13. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
  14. Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
  15. BORNS - Blue Madonna
  16. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today
  17. Field Report - Summertime Songs
  18. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
  19. Lex Allen - Table 7: Sinners & Saints
  20. The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl
  21. Snail Mail - Lush
  22. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
  23. Hippo Campus - Bambi
  24. Mac Miller - Swimming
  25. Soccer Mommy - Clean
  26. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
  27. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
  28. Dog - Critical Equation
  29. Noname - Room 25
  30. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
  31. Pusha T - Daytona
  32. Robyn - Honey
  33. Brockhampton - iridescence
  34. Neko Case - Hell-On
  35. Mumford & Sons - Delta
  36. David Byrne - American Utopia
  37. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
  38. Jeff Tweedy - WARM
  39. Gorillaz - The Now Now
  40. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
  41. Superorganism - Superorganism
  42. Travis Scott - Astroworld
  43. Lucy Dacus - Historian
  44. Kali Uchis - Isolation
  45. Interpol - Marauder
  46. Dead Horses - My Mother the Moon
  47. Caroline Rose - Loner
  48. Christine and the Queens - Chris
  49. A$AP Rocky - Testing
  50. Brett Newski - Life Upside Down
  51. Various Artists - Black Panther: The Album
  52. Cold War Kids - LA DIVINE
  53. Jungle - For Ever
  54. MGMT - Little Dark Age
  55. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
  56. Atmosphere - Mi Vida Local
  57. Paper Holland - Galapagos
  58. Amen Dunes - Freedom
  59. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
  60. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,
  61. Drake - Scorpion
  62. Cat Power - Wanderer
  63. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing at the Seams
  64. Albert Hammond Jr. - Francis Trouble
  65. Amanda Huff - Hemiptera
  66. Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie
  67. John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
  68. Dawes - Passwords
  69. Lucius - Nudes
  70. Jorja Smith - Lost & Found
  71. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
  72. Santigold - I Don't Want: The Gold Fire Sessions
  73. Charles Bradley - Black Velvet
  74. The Record Company - All of This Life
  75. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending
  76. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells
  77. Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us
  78. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
  79. Lorde Fred33 - NORF: The Legend of Hotboy Ronald
  80. Jack White - Boarding House Reach
  81. Jim James - Uniform Distortion
  82. Khalid - Suncity
  83. Bahamas - Earthtones
  84. King Tuff - The Other
  85. Ray LaMontagne - Part Of The Light
  86. serpentwithfeet - soil
  87. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.
  88. J Balvin - Vibras
  89. Rhett Miller - The Messenger
  90. U2 - Songs of Experience
  91. Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores
  92. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
  93. Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock
  94. The Internet - Hive Mind
  95. E.R. - I Used to Know Her: Part 2 - EP
  96. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - An American Treasure
  97. Toro Y Moi - Oute Peace
  98. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
  99. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
  100. Vince Staples - FM!