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Rosal\u00eda\u2019s<\/a> new album \u2018LUX\u2019 has ranked as the album of the year in the aggregated top 50 combining almost 100 publications, blogs and magazines\u2019 end-of-year lists.<\/p>\n Drawing from 99 sources aggregated by albumoftheyear.org, <\/a>the Catalan artist\u2019s fourth album topped ten lists and appeared in the Top Ten on a further 19.<\/p>\n The chart awards points based on position in end-of-year lists. Placing first in a ranked list earns 10 points, eight for a Number Two, and six for a Number Three. Albums that rank within a top ten score 5 points, within a top 25 gets 3 points, and any other placement earns one point. Unranked lists also win between 1 and 5 points depending on their length.<\/p>\n \u2018LUX\u2019 earned 364 points overall, with Geese<\/a>\u2018s \u2018Getting Killed\u2019<\/a> just behind in second with 338 points (though it came in at Number One on more lists overall). Ranking third is Bad Bunny\u2019s \u2018DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS\u2019 with 178 points.<\/p>\n\n The full list reads as follows:<\/p>\n 1. \u2018<\/em>LUX\u2019 \u2013 Rosal\u00eda (365 points, number 1 on 10 lists)<\/strong> Noticeably absent is Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s \u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019<\/a>, which only scored 20 points and didn\u2019t make the top 50 after receiving mixed reviews (including a three-star write-up from NME<\/em>).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, \u2018Getting Killed\u2019<\/a> topped NME<\/em>\u2018s own albums of the year list, earning a five-star review praising \u201ca band living up to their reputation as exhilaratingly free-spirited, not so much proving they deserve all the accolades and fervent fanaticism bubbling around them but demanding it\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, \u2018DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS\u2019<\/a> came in fifth, its five-star review lauding the ways Bad Bunny \u201crevolutionizes Puerto Rico\u2019s folk music and reclaims his reggaeton throne with game-changing fusions that are authentic to him and what he believes in\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2018LUX\u2019 came seventh in NME<\/em>\u2018s list, also receiving a five-star review<\/a>. \u201c\u2018Lux\u2019 contains not just whole worlds, but astral planes, bridging the gap between Earth and whatever you believe heaven to be,\u201d NME<\/em>\u2018s Rhian Daly wrote.<\/p>\n The post This is the album of the year, according to music critics\u2019 averages<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rosal\u00eda\u2019s new album \u2018LUX\u2019 has ranked as the album of the year in the aggregated top 50 combining almost 100 publications, blogs and magazines\u2019 end-of-year lists. READ MORE: The 50 best albums of 2025 Drawing from 99 sources aggregated by albumoftheyear.org, the Catalan artist\u2019s fourth album topped ten lists and appeared in the Top Ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 16:25:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n2. \u2018Getting Killed\u2019 \u2013 Geese (338 points, number 1 on 11 lists)<\/strong>
\n3. \u2018<\/em>DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS\u2019 \u2013 Bad Bunny (178 points, number 1 on 5 lists)<\/strong>
\n4.<\/em> \u2018Bleeds\u2019 \u2013 Wednesday (175 points, number 1 on 1 list)<\/strong>
\n5. \u2018<\/em>EUSEXUA\u2019 \u2013 FKA Twigs (174 points, number 1 on 1 list)<\/strong>
\n6. \u2018<\/em>choke enough\u2019 \u2013 Oklou (158 points, number 1 on 3 lists)<\/strong>
\n7. \u2018<\/em>Let God Sort Em Out\u2019 \u2013 clipse (155 points, number 1 on 1 list)<\/strong>
\n8.<\/em> \u2018EURO-COUNTRY\u2019 \u2013<\/em>\u00a0CMAT (148 points, number one on 2 lists)<\/strong>
\n9. \u2018<\/em>Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party\u2019 \u2013 Hayley Williams (146 points, number 1 on 3 lists)<\/strong>
\n10.<\/em> \u2018Baby\u2019 \u2013 Dijon (146 points, number one on 1 list)<\/strong><\/p>\n