Зарубежные издания, как и положено в конце года, начали публиковать списки лучших, по их мнению, альбомов и песен прошедшего года.
Журнал "New Musical Express" опубликовал свой список лучших альбомов и песен за 2012 год.
Ознакомится с ним подробно можно в новом номере журнала.
Лучшим альбомом 2012 года NME признал альбом австралийского коллектива Tame Impala – "Lonerism". А почётное звание "Песня года" завоевала песня молодых музыкантов Palma Violets – "Best Of Friends".
Лучшие 50 альбомов 2012 года по мнению NME:
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
4. Crystal Castles - III
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
6. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild
7. Pond - Beard Wives Denim
8. The Cribs -In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
9. Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
10. Jack White - Blunderbuss
11. Django Django - Django Django
12. David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant
13. DIIV - Oshin
14. The XX - Coexist
15. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
16. Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
17. Grizzly Bear - Shields
18. Tribes - Baby
19. Toy - Toy
20. Howler - America Give Up
21. Cat Power - Sun
22. Beach House - Bloom
23. Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
24. Merchandise - Children Of Desire
25. Ariel Pink - Mature Themes
26. Spector - Enjoy It While It Lasts
27. Jessie Ware - Devotion
28. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
29. Mac DeMarco - 2
30. Breton - Other People's Problems
31. Kanye West - Cruel Summer
32. Graham Coxon - A+E
33. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
34. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
35. Metz - Metz
36. The Vaccines - Come Of Age
37. Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour
38. TEED - Trouble
39. Liars - WIXIW
40. Polica - Give You The Ghost
41. Ty Segall - Twins
42. Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
43. Ratking - Wiki93
44. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, MAAd City
45. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
46. Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
47. John Talabot - Fin The
48. 2 Bears - Be Strong
49. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
50. Purity Ring - Shrines
Лучшие 50 песен 2012 года по мнению NME:
1. Palma Violets - Best Of Friends
2. M.I.A. - Bad Girls
3. Blur - Under The Westway
4. Haim - Forever
5. Plan B - Ill Manors
6. Grimes - Oblivion
7. Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt
8. Bat For Lashes - Laura
9. Tame Impala - Elephant
10. Savages - Husbands
11. Jack White - Sixteen Saltines
12. Frank Ocean – Pyramids
13. Peace - California Daze
14. Alt-J - Breezeblocks
15. Kanye West – Clique (feat. Big Sean & Jay-Z)
16. Grimes - Genesis
17. The Cribs - Come On, Be A No-One
18. Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
19. Solange - Losing You
20. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
21. Melody's Echo Chamber - I Follow You
22. TNGHT - Higher Ground
23. Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
24. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
25. Pond – You Broke My Cool
26. The Cribs - Chi-Town
27. Cat Power - Ruin
28. Chvrches – Lies
29. Angel Haze - New York
30. Everything Everything - Cough Cough
31. Deap Vally - Gonna Make My Own Money
32. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who
33. Burns - Lies
34. Jai Paul - Jasmine
35. King Krule - Rock Bottom
36. The Vaccines - Teenage Icon
37. Mosca - What You Came For (feat. Katy B)
38. Spector - Friday Night, Don't Ever Let It End
39. G.O.O.D. Music – Mercy
40. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
41. Django Django - Default
42. The Rolling Stones - Doom And Gloom
43. Peace - Bloodshake
44. Crystal Castles - Wrath Of God
45. Zebra Katz – Ima Read
46. Frank Ocean – Forrest Gump
47. Peace - Follow Baby
48. Major Lazer – Get Free
49. Kendrick Lamar – Backseat Freestyle
50. PSY - Gangnam Style