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1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

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2010-????


the list

For the years since 2009, 16 tracks are listed, 75 albums. The total number of tracks listed at the Rock Annual is thus currently 2135 tracks; the total number of albums, 2812.

2010

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seven albums

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)

Beach House - Teen Dream

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Grinderman 2

Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

These New Puritans - Hidden

three singles and deep cuts

Adele - 'Rolling in the Deep', 21 [2011]

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 'Round and Round', Before Today

Martin Solveig/ Dragonette - 'Hello', [Martin Solveig] Smash

five archival and compilation albums

Black Tambourine

Bobby Charles - See You Later, Alligator

DA - Exclamation Point: (Un)released Recordings 1980-81

Joe Tex - Singles A's and B's Vol. 1 1964-1966

Joe Tex - Singles A's and B's Vol. 2 1967-1968


2011

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five albums

Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer

King Creosote/ Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine

Prince Rama - Trust Now

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

Wilco - The Whole Love

two singles and deep cuts

Carly Rae Jepsen - 'Call Me Maybe', Kiss

Rihanna - 'We Found Love', Talk That Talk

nine archival and compilation albums

Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974

The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions

Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966-1968

Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs

Big Jay McNeely - King of the Honkin' Sax

Joe Tex - Singles A's and B's Vol. 3 1969-1972

Joe Tex - Singles A's and B's Vol. 4 1973-1976

Conway Twitty - Complete Original #1 Hits of the '60s & '70s

The Who - Quadrophenia: Director's Cut


2012

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ten albums

Chromatics - Kill for Love

Bob Dylan - Tempest

Grimes - Visions

Guided by Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

Sun Araw/ M Geddes Gingras/ The Congos - Icon Give Tank

Taylor Swift - Red

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Scott Walker - Bish Bosch

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

four singles and deep cuts

Charli X. C. X. - 'You're the One', True Romance [2013]

Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games', Born to Die

Icona Pop Featuring Charli X. C. X. - 'I Love It', Icona Pop

Frank Ocean - 'Thinkin bout You', Channel Orange

four archival and compilation albums

Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller

Can - The Lost Tapes

The Cleaners from Venus - Volume One

My Bloody Valentine - EP's 1988-1991


2013

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five albums

Beyoncé

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz

Deafheaven - Sunbather

The Invisible Hands [double-L. P. version]

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

no singles or deep cuts

three archival and compilation albums

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1928-1932, Volume 1

The Cleaners from Venus - Volume Two

Elvis Presley - Elvis at Stax: Deluxe Edition


2014

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seven albums

The Black Keys - Turn Blue

Richard Dawson - Nothing Important

Grouper - Ruins

Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal

Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right

Ty Segall - Manipulator

Sun Kil Moon - Benji

three singles and deep cuts

Ariana Grande - 'Break Free', My Everything

Ariana Grande - 'Problem', My Everything

Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - 'Uptown Funk', [Mark Ronson] Uptown Special [2015]

four archival and compilation albums

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1928-1932, Volume 2

The Allman Brothers Band - The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings

The Cleaners from Venus - Volume Three

Bob Dylan and the Band - The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11


2015

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two albums

Ought - Sun Coming Down

Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country and Western Music

two singles or deep cut

Adele - 'Hello', 25

The Weeknd - 'Can't Feel My Face', Beauty behind the Madness

three archival and compilation albums

Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Gate Walks to Board: 1947-1960 Aladdin & Peacock Sides

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Portrait of an American Singer

The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway Complete: Recorded Live at Chicago's New Nazareth Church


2016

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nine albums

David Bowie - Blackstar

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

Horse Lords - Interventions

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

Frank Ocean - Blond [Blonde]

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Rihanna - Anti

Solange - A Seat at the Table

no singles or deep cuts

two archival and compilation albums

Mickey Gilley - The Definitive Hits Collection

Porter Wagoner - The Definitive Collection


2017

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three albums

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana: Explorations into Microtonal Tuning Volume 1

Lorde - Melodrama

Motorpsycho - The Tower

one single or deep cut

Dua Lipa - 'New Rules', Dua Lipa

two archival and compilation albums

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain: Ultimate Collector's Edition

Neil Young - Hitchhiker


2018

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seven albums

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Forest Bathing

Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples

Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance

Mythic Sunship - Another Shape of Psychedelic Music

Ought - Room inside the World

Sarah Louise - Deeper Woods

Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace

no singles or deep cuts

four archival and compilation albums

The Beatles - The Beatles: Annniversary Edition

Bob Dylan - More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14

Floyd Dixon - The Floyd Dixon Singles Collection 1949-62

Frank Zappa - The Roxy Performances


2019

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nine albums

Big Thief - U.F.O.F.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell

Fat White Family - Serfs Up!

Bill Orcutt - Odds against Tomorrow

Purple Mountains

75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real

Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Colorado

one single or deep cut

The Weeknd - 'Blinding Lights', After Hours [2020]

seven archival and compilation albums

Wynona Carr - The Very Best of Wynona Carr

Henry Cow - 50th Anniversary Box: Cow Box Redux

Prince - 1999: Super Deluxe Edition

The Residents - Mole Box

The Television Personalities - Some Kind of Happening: Singles 1978-1989

XTC as the Dukes of Stratosphear - Psurroundabout Ride

Frank Zappa - Zappa in New York: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition


2020

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seven albums

Hen Ogledd - Free Humans

Hey Colossus - Dances/ Curses

Horse Lords - The Common Task

Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today

Sunwatchers - Oh Yeah?

Taylor Swift - Folklore

no singles or deep cuts

five archival and compilation albums

Earl Hooker - Rockin' Wild: 1952-1963 Recordings

Tom Petty - Wildflowers & All the Rest [5-C. D. edition]

Prince - Sign "O" the Times: Super Deluxe Edition

Neil Young - Homegrown

Neil Young - Archives Volume II (1972-1976)


2021

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three albums

Idles - Crawler

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - LW: Explorations into Microtonal Tuning Vol. 3

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

no singles or deep cuts

no archival and compilation albums


2022

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one album

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

no singles or deep cuts

two archival and compilation albums

Hadda Brooks - Out of the Blue: The Singles & Albums Collection 1945-53

Robert Fripp - Exposures


2023

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no albums

no singles or deep cuts

two archival and compilation albums

The Who - Who's Next/Life House

Neil Young - Chrome Dreams

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2024

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no albums

no singles or deep cuts

one archival or compilation album

Neil Young - Archives III (1976-1987)