2016—2025

Across the years

Dan Eisenberg

Ten years of listening, rating and choosing my favorite records.

The big picture

1,141

albums rated
28

Amazing

2.5%
327

Great or better

28.7%
10

Years

2016–2025

By year

Albums rated by year

Albums rated each year.

By year

Great or better

Share of the albums rated that scored 4.0 or higher.

Great or better

The rarest rating

Amazing

Albums rated 5.0 in each year.

All years

Rating distribution

Every rating given to 1,141 albums.

5.0 Amazing 28 2.5%
4.5 Excellent 83 7.3%
4.0 Great 216 18.9%
3.5 Good 396 34.7%
3.0 Above Average 231 20.2%
2.5 Nothing Special 137 12.0%
2.0 Bad 44 3.9%
1.0 Horrible 6 0.5%
0.0 Filth 0 0.0%

Artists

Repeat appearances

Who kept coming back to the yearly lists.

Ghost
3 appearances

2018 2022 2025

3× Top 5
Bon Iver
3 appearances

2016 2019 2025

1× Top 5
Steven Wilson
3 appearances

2017 2021 2025

1× Top 5
Leprous
3 appearances

2017 2021 2024

1× Top 5
Haken
3 appearances

2016 2020 2023

1× Top 5
Carly Rae Jepsen
3 appearances

2016 2019 2022
A.C.T
2 appearances

2023 2025

2× Top 5
Adrianne Lenker
2 appearances

2020 2024

2× Top 5
Devin Townsend
2 appearances

2019 2022

2× Top 5
Seventh Wonder
2 appearances

2018 2022

2× Top 5
Arch Echo
2 appearances

2019 2020

2× Top 5
Amorphis
2 appearances

2022 2025

1× Top 5

Genres

The sound of the years

Primary genres across the 170 ranked albums.

Progressive Rock 37 albums 37 21.8%
Progressive Metal 30 albums 30 17.6%
Art Pop 17 albums 17 10.0%
Art Rock 14 albums 14 8.2%
Singer-Songwriter 14 albums 14 8.2%
Chamber Folk 8 albums 8 4.7%
Progressive Pop 7 albums 7 4.1%
Contemporary Folk 6 albums 6 3.5%
Indie Rock 6 albums 6 3.5%
Pop Rock 6 albums 6 3.5%
Synthpop 6 albums 6 3.5%
Melodic Death Metal 5 albums 5 2.9%

Every year's #1

The winners