Albums of the year 2012

[VinylFan]

Here are various albums of the year lists for 2012. If only radio stations played more music, more quality music, more variety of music, then more people would be interested in buying recordings. There's lots of good music that never gets on the radio. The music industry will be in a sales decline as long as the best music by the best bands is excluded from airplay.

http://www.planetrock.com/music/back...e-year-so-far/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-2012-20121205

http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2012/

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1...ms-of-2012.php

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelec...lbums-of-2012/

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2012/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musi...12-tame-impala

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/alb..._selected=2012

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/best/albums/

http://pitchfork.com/best/high-scoring-albums/


If you can find more links to more lists, reply to this post with links.

If you've never heard of any of these bands or albums, that's because the radio stations have neglected to play them. People are going to switch to satellite radio and internet radio to find new music.

[Kreatorkind]

I've never heard of most of those bands... but it's not radio's fault. I don't listen to radio anymore. I haven't for years. In fact, I find radio to be completely annoying. I find all my new music from friends. As far as best albums to come out in 2012, The Smashing Pumpkins "Oceania" is the best album I've heard from anyone in the last 10 years.

[daddymack]

and therein lies the issue. Radio was the key marketing component for the labels up until a few years ago. Now with 'dollar downloads' off the internet, who needs radio? Who, for that matter buys an entire 'album' anymore? The core buying pubic inthat oh so brilliant demographic of 12-34 year-olds is tech savvy and not going to turn on a 'top 40' station. They will find a station that caters to them, if it exists, otherwise they will dock their iPod...or phone and listen to their own selections in the car and at home. The old paradigms are fading, and the new ones are emerging, and they are not easily monetized. I get annoyed now every time I go to youtube and I have to wait for their 'sponsor's ad' to run... this is backwards thinking.

[Kreatorkind]

I only buy albums. But then again I don't tend to like or listen to modern pop. I'm kind of an oddball for my generation though... from what I can see. I can't stand to listen to what I call "Indie pop", the quirky little songs by some "Indie" group with a toy piano and some odd looking girl singing all high.

[Kramerguy]

somethings amiss...

Speaking in modern/alt rock terms, much of which has strong pop themes, the bands I've seen hitting the hardest this year are:

Lumineers
GroupLove
Imagine Dragons
Morning Parade
M83
Two Door Cinema Club
Black Keys
Neon Trees
Killers
Fun
AWOLNATION
Silversun Pickups
Of Monsters And Men
Alex Clare
Cage the Elephant
Artic Monkeys
Muse
Young The Giant
Carly Rae Jepsen
few other pop/country singers/groups I can't think of, but I don't pay too much attention to straight-up pop much.

I didn't see any of them listed... A couple of those sites appear to be basing results off web-votes, but I was unable to many lists for "top 2012" with any of the above, outside of billboard weekly/monthly lists.

[Vito Corleone]

They still make albums?

I thought it was all just about singles now.

[Kramerguy]

peoples gotta eats guido, sell a 100 hit-song downloads and eat a mcdouble, or try to sell an album and starve

[Lindsay_K]

I just know few of them. It's also not the fault of radio station, I just pay attention to those songs that impress me.

[VinylFan]

Vote for your picks for Album the The Year 2012. Tell your friends. These polls close soon

http://readerspoll.pitchfork.com/


http://loudwire.com/rock-album-of-th...-music-awards/


http://popcrush.com/album-of-the-yea...-music-awards/