De una lista de cien, pasó a setenta y cinco para posteriormente terminar en estos veinticinco álbumes del año.
1.Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Bag Raiders – Bag Raiders
3. Beach House – Teen Dream
4.Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
5.Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang – The Wonder Show Of The World
6.Drake – Thank Me Later
7.El Guincho – Pop Negro
8.High Places – High Places vs Mankind
9.jj – No. 3
10.Jorge Drexler – Amar La Trama
11.Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues
12.Kanye West – My Dark Twisted Fantasy
13. LCD Soundsytem – This Is Happening
14.Math And Physics Club – I Shouldn’t Look As Good As I Do
15. Peter Broderick – How They Are
16.Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
17.Sam Amidon – All We Grow
18.Shout Out Louds – Work
19. Spoon – Transference
20.Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
21.The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt/Sometimes’s The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird EP
22.Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
23. The Black Keys- Brothers
24.The National – High Violet
25. Vampire Weekend – Contra
en orden alfabético.