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