Year-end lists so far:

 

#5 Consequence of Sound

#8 The Skinny

#14 Gigwise

#34 Complex

#37 MOJO

#40 The Line of Best Fit

#40 The Quietus

#46 Exclaim!

 

Shocked it's not higher tbh!

Rolling Stone ranked it at #1 for pop albums and #5 overall. Looks like I spoke too soon :lol:

Edited December 4, 20204 yr by Buy Levitating

Critics year-end list update! Future Nostalgia is ranking fifth overall on Album of the Year behind Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, Run the Jewels and Taylor Swift :cheer:

 

#2 Billboard

#3 NME

#3 The Times

#5 Consequence of Sound

#5 Crack Magazine

#5 Rolling Stone

#5 Slant Magazine

#8 The Skinny

#11 Entertainment Weekly

#11 Albumism

#11 PopMatters

#12 Loud and Quiet

#14 Gigwise

#14 Spin

#21 Pitchfork

#37 MOJO

#40 The Line of Best Fit

#40 The Quietus

#46 Exclaim!

 

Don't Start Now:

#6 Rolling Stone

#8 Gigwise

#9 Consequence of Sound

 

Physical:

#2 NME

#8 The Guardian

#28 Billboard

#49 Pitchfork

 

Hallucinate:

#2 The Line of Best Fit

#8 Crack Magazine

#15 The Guardian

 

Levitating:

#5 Slant Magazine

I think I saw Break My Heart on some Year End Lists as well!!!

I think I saw Break My Heart on some Year End Lists as well!!!

Omg how did I miss this! :o

 

I also missed Boys Will Be Boys making The New York Times year end list!

Critics year-end list update:

 

#2 DIY

#2 The Guardian

#3 musicOMH

#3 NME

#4 Variety

#5 Consequence of Sound

#5 Crack Magazine

#5 Dork

#5 Rolling Stone

#5 Slant Magazine

#6 Clash

#8 The AV Club

#8 The Skinny

#11 Albumism

#11 Entertainment Weekly

#11 No Ripcord

#11 PopMatters

#12 Loud and Quiet

#14 Gigwise

#14 Spin

#17 Riff Magazine

#19 Spectrum Culture

#21 Pitchfork

#37 MOJO

#40 The Line of Best Fit

#40 The Quietus

#46 Exclaim!

 

Don't Start Now:

#6 Rolling Stone

#8 Gigwise

#9 Consequence of Sound

 

Physical:

#2 NME

#8 The Guardian

#49 Pitchfork

 

Hallucinate:

#2 The Line of Best Fit

#3 DIY

#8 Crack Magazine

#15 The Guardian

 

Levitating:

#5 Slant Magazine

 

 

I decided to give the year-end lists of Future Nostalgia a proper thread to avoid them to get lost with the album thread. As far as I'm aware, most of the songs of the album (independently if there were released as singles or not) have made, at least, in one of these publications, so this is a win for Dua.

Another #2 ranking, this time on The Independent's year-end list

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...d-b1775582.html

 

Slant Magazine have also included Physical in its list of The 20 Best Music Videos of 2020 with this beautiful write-up :wub:

For all her skills as a pop vocalist and songwriter, Dua Lipa exudes an aloofness on stage and on camera that could be mistaken for a lack of charisma. With her Future Nostalgia project, however, the U.K. singer has come into her own, no more so than in the colorful video for the album’s second single, “Physical.” Employing a blend of animation, special effects, and clever editing, Lipa literally floats on air as an army of monochromatic dancers swirl around her in a flurry of kinetic physicality.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/the-...os-of-2020/amp/