This week I counted up the albums that were most often listen on the posted Best of 2025 lists. I'm playing the top 10 on this episode.
But I'm posting every album that ended up on 10 or more of those 'best of' charts. Here they are--with the number of lists they were on beside them. I ended up finding 108 lists that were all accessible to the public (with no paywalls or required subscriptions). The top album ended up on 32 of them....which is a little less than 1/3.
If you want me to send you a list of every album and the number of votes it received, just email me at [email protected], and I'll attach my list of albums to my reply. And please....I'd appreciate a review and rating on whatever site you get your podcasts. Thanks.
Tally of Top Critic's Choices. (10 and over responses) As of January 17, 2025
Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (32)
Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (22)
Branford Marsalis: Belonging (21)
Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (21)
Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tyshawn Sorey: Stranger Heavens (20)
James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction is Deliverance (18)
Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (16)
Fieldwork: Thereupon (#1 in PopMatters) (15)
MAPL Webber/Morris Bigband: Unseparate (15)
Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (14)
Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (13)
Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (13)
Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (13)
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (13)
Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (13)
Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (12) (#1 on Jazzwise)
Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (11)
Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (11)
Kenny Dorham Quartet: Blue Bossa in the Bronx, Live From the Blue Morocco (11)
Cecile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap! (11)
Kassa Overall Quartet: Cream (10)
Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (10)