The Gummy Awards: Your Top 10 Albums And Songs Of 2019 — And The 2010s
The votes are in, the ballots are counted, and we can officially reveal the results of the 2019 Gummy Awards. As usual, adjacent to our year-end coverage, we launched a readers’ poll in search of your favorite albums and songs of the year. This year, in keeping with the end-of-decade festivities that have proliferated around the internet lately — including here at Stereogum — we also solicited your picks for the best album and song of the entire 2010s. We’ve crunched the numbers and can confirm y’all have exquisite taste. Check out the results below.
STEREOGUM READERS’ 10 FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2019
10. Bon Iver – i,i (Jagjaguwar)
9. Big Thief – Two Hands (4AD)
8. Tyler, The Creator – IGOR (A Boy Is A Gun / Columbia)
7. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
6. FKA twigs – MAGDALENE (Young Turks)
5. Big Thief – U.F.O.F. (4AD)
4. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (Sub Pop)
3. Vampire Weekend – Father Of The Bride (Spring Snow / Columbia)
2. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City)
1. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (Polydor / Interscope)
STEREOGUM READERS’ 10 FAVORITE SONGS OF 2019
10. (Sandy) Alex G – “Gretel”
9. Purple Mountains – “All My Happiness Is Gone”
8. Angel Olsen – “Lark”
7. Lana Del Rey – “The greatest”
6. Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens – “Gone”
5. Mannequin Pussy – “Drunk II”
4. Vampire Weekend – “Harmony Hall”
3. Sharon Van Etten – “Seventeen”
2. FKA twigs – “cellophane”
1. Big Thief – “Not”
STEREOGUM READERS’ 10 FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THE 2010s
10. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
9. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (4AD)
8. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City (XL)
7. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city (TDE / Aftermath / Interscope)
6. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (XL)
5. Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge / Dead Oceans)
4. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Clean Slate / Epic)
3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (TDE / Aftermath / Interscope)
2. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam / Roc-A-Fella)
1. Frank Ocean – Blonde (Boys Don’t Cry)
STEREOGUM READERS’ 10 FAVORITE SONGS OF THE 2010s
10. Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built”
9. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Round And Round”
8. Tame Impala – “Let It Happen”
7. Frank Ocean – “Pyramids”
6. M83 – “Midnight City”
5. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Run Away With Me”
4. Kanye West – “Runaway” (Feat. Pusha T)
3. Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”
2. LCD Soundsystem – “Dance Yrself Clean”
1. Robyn – “Dancing On My Own”
