For the years since 2009, 98 albums are listed, 19 tracks or extended plays. The total number of albums listed in the Rock Annual is thus currently 3297; the total number of tracks or extended plays, 2635.
← 2010
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nine albums
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
Beach House - Teen Dream
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Excepter - Presidence
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Grinderman 2
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
These New Puritans - Hidden
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five songs
Adele - 'Rolling in the Deep', 21 [2011]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 'Round and Round', Before Today
Robyn - 'Dancing on My Own', Body Talk Pt. 1
Martin Solveig/ Dragonette - 'Hello', [Martin Solveig] Smash
Usher Featuring Pitbull - 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love', Versus [E. P.]
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six archival or compilation albums
Black Tambourine
Leroy Carr/ Scrapper Blackwell - When the Sun Goes Down 1934-1941
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
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2011
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five albums
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
King Creosote/ Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Prince Rama - Trust Now
Wilco - The Whole Love
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two songs
Carly Rae Jepsen - 'Call Me Maybe', Kiss
Rihanna - 'We Found Love', Talk That Talk
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nine archival or 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
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2012
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eleven 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
Swans - The Seer
Taylor Swift - Red
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
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five songs
Charli X. C. X. - 'You're the One', True Romance [2013]
Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games', Born to Die
Sky Ferreira - 'Everything Is Embarrassing', Ghost [E. P.]
Icona Pop Featuring Charli X. C. X. - 'I Love It', Icona Pop
Frank Ocean - 'Thinkin bout You', Channel Orange
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four archival or compilation albums
Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller
Can - The Lost Tapes
The Cleaners from Venus - Volume One
My Bloody Valentine - EP's 1988-1991
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2013
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nine albums
Beyoncé
David Bowie - The Next Day
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Deerhunter - Monomania
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
The Invisible Hands [double-L. P. version]
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
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no songs
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four archival or compilation albums
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1928-1932, Volume 1
The Cleaners from Venus - Volume Two
The Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, Oregon, August 27, 1972
Elvis Presley - Elvis at Stax: Deluxe Edition
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2014
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nine albums
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Excepter - Familiar
Grouper - Ruins
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
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three songs
Ariana Grande - 'Break Free', My Everything
Ariana Grande - 'Problem', My Everything
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - 'Uptown Funk', [Mark Ronson] Uptown Special [2015]
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five archival or 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
Washboard Sam - The Washboard Sam Collection 1935-53
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2015
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four albums
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Thee Oh Sees - Multilator Defeated at Last
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country and Western Music
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two songs
Adele - 'Hello', 25
The Weeknd - 'Can't Feel My Face', Beauty behind the Madness
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four archival or 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
The Velvet Underground - The Complete Matrix Tapes
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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
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no songs
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three archival or compilation albums
Mickey Gilley - The Definitive Hits Collection
Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1965-1972
Porter Wagoner - The Definitive Collection
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2017
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five albums
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana: Explorations into Microtonal Tuning Volume 1
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
Lorde - Melodrama
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
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one song
Dua Lipa - 'New Rules', Dua Lipa
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three archival or compilation albums
The Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain: Ultimate Collector's Edition
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
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2018
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eight albums
Guided by Voices - Space Gun
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
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no songs
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five archival or 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
The Grateful Dead - Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It
Frank Zappa - The Roxy Performances
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2019
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ten albums
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
Fontaines D. C. - Dogrel
Bill Orcutt - Odds against Tomorrow
Purple Mountains
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Colorado
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one song
The Weeknd - 'Blinding Lights', After Hours [2020]
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eight archival or compilation albums
Wynona Carr - The Very Best of Wynona Carr
Jimi Hendrix - Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts
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
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2020
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seven albums
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Hen Ogledd - Free Humans
Hey Colossus - Dances/Curses
Horse Lords - The Common Task
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Sunwatchers - Oh Yeah?
Taylor Swift - Folklore
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no songs
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five archival or 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)
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2021
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four albums
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Idles - Crawler
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
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no songs
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two archival or compilation albums
Scrapper Blackwell - The Scrapper Blackwell Collection 1928-61
Bush Tetras - Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras
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2022
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four albums
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There
Black Midi - Hellfire
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
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no songs
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three archival or compilation albums
Hadda Brooks - Out of the Blue: The Singles & Albums Collection 1945-53
Robert Fripp - Exposures
Ride - 4 EPs
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2023
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three albums
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord
Sunwatchers - Music Is Victory over Time
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no songs
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three archival or compilation albums
Excepter - A Return from Black Hole
The Who - Who's Next/Life House
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams
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2024
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one album
Fontaines D. C. - Romance
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no songs
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one archival or compilation album
Neil Young - Archives III (1976-1987)
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2025
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no albums
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no songs
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no archival or compilation albums