NME Album of the Year

Every December, British music magazine NME compiles a list of what it considers the best albums of the year.

The NME Album of the Year list is compiled by the music reviewers and independent journalists who work for the magazine and for NME.com.

Each picks his or her top 20 albums of the year and hands them in to the editor.

All of the points from the various top 20s are then gathered together and the overall favourites are worked out and ranked for publication in the official list.

For example, the NME Album of the Year for 2000 was Rated R by Queens of the Stone Age, with XTRMNTR by Primal Scream in 2nd place, XTRMNTR was later voted the best album of 2000 however in the NME Carling Awards 2001.

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Bob Dylan was the first artist to top NME 's albums list more than once, in 1975 and 1976.
NME named Punch the Clock by Elvis Costello as the greatest album of 1983.
Hip-hop group Public Enemy topped NME 's albums lists in consecutive years, 1987 and 1988.
Spiritualized 's album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space was named the best album of 1997.
Odelay by Beck was NME 's number-one album of 1996.
Arctic Monkeys are one of three acts to have topped the listing more than once.
Lorde won the 2017 Album of the Year award for her album Melodrama