2024 Power Rankings

Albums

Ranked albums of 2024 as rated by the committee of one.

RANK	ARTIST	ALBUM	GENRE	POWER INDEX	RATING
T1	Cosmo's Midnight	Stop Thinking Start Feeling	Dance	81. 7
T1	Close Talker	The Sprawl	Indie Vapor Rock	81. 7
3	COIN	I'm Not Afraid Of Music Anymore	Indie Pop	78. 7
4	Chappell Roan	The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess	Indie Poptimism	78. 5
T5	Leon Bridges	Leon	Neo-Soul	78. 3
T5	Gallant	Zinc.	Alternative R&B	78. 3
T7	Billie Eilish	HIT ME HARD AND SOFT	Alternative	78. 0
T7	Honeyglaze	Real Deal	Alternative	78. 0
T9	Novo Amor	Collapse List	Ambient Folk	77. 8
T9	Only Twin	It Feels Nice To Burn	Alternative	77. 8
11	LAVA LA RUE	STARFACE	Alternative	76. 1
12	Rachel Chinouriri	What A Devastating Turn Of Events	Alternative	75. 8
13	Hippo Campus	Flood	Indie Pop	75. 2
T14	Ariana Grande	eternal sunshine	Pop	75. 0
T14	Mustafa	Dunya	Neo-Soul	75. 0
16	Novo Amor & Endel	Antarctican Dream Machine (Relax Soundscape)	Ambient	74. 7
17	Half Waif	See You At The Maypole	Alternative	74. 6
T18	Michael Kiwanuka	Small Changes	Neo-Soul	74. 5
T18	Dua Lipa	Radical Optimism	Pop	74. 5
T20	Lucy Rose	This Ain't The Way You Go Out	Shimmer Folk	74. 2
T20	Mk.gee	Two Star & The Dream Police	Alternative	74. 2
22	Wunderhorse	Midas	Rock	73. 8
23	La Luz	News Of The Universe	Alternative	73. 6
24	Lucky Daye	Algorithm	Alternative R&B	73. 5
25	Father John Misty	Mahashmashana	Chamber Pop	73. 4
T26	Elbow	AUDIO VERTIGO	Alternative	73. 3
T26	Kidnap	Something Lost, Something Gained	Progressive House	73. 3
28	Lane 8	Childish	Progressive House	73. 1
29	Forester	Moonlight	Progressive House	72. 9
30	Another Sky	Beach Day	Art Rock	72. 8
31	Phantogram	Memory Of A Day	Indietronica	72. 6
T32	Charli xcx	Brat	Pop	72. 1
T32	Pillow Queens	Name Your Sorrow	Rock	72. 1
34	Wilderado	Talker	Folk-Rock	72. 0
35	Cordae	The Crossroads	Rap	71. 8
36	Magdalena Bay	Imaginal Disk	Art Pop	71. 4
37	Omar Apollo	God Said No	Alternative R&B	71. 1
38	Tourist	Memory Morning	Chillbeat	70. 8
T39	Cigarettes After Sex	X's	Dream Pop	70. 6
T39	Glass Animals	I Love You So F***ing Much	Alternative	70. 6
T39	Until The Ribbon Breaks	V I S I T O R	Dark Pop	70. 6
T39	Colouring	Love To You, Mate	Pop	70. 6
T39	Marika Hackman	Big Sigh	Alternative	70. 6
44	Justin Timberlake	Everything I Thought It Was	Pop	70. 5
45	Denzel Curry	KING OF THE MISCHIEVOUS SOUTH	Alternative Rap	70. 3
T46	Sabrina Carpenter	Short n' Sweet	Pop	69. 7
T46	Sunday (1994)	Sunday (1994)	Dream Pop	69. 7
T46	W. H. Lung	Every Inch Of Earth Pulsates	Rock	69. 7
49	Still Parade	Fields	Ambient Folk	69. 2
50	AURORA	What Happened To The Heart?	Indie Poptimism	69. 1
T51	Clairo	Charm	Alternative	68. 8
T51	Soccer Mommy	Evergreen	Bedroom Pop	68. 8
T53	Fontaines D.C.	Romance	Indie Rock	68. 5
T53	Dua Lipa	Radical Optimism Extended Versions	Pop	68. 5
T55	Beyoncé	COWBOY CARTER	Pop	68. 4
T55	Rosie Lowe	Lover, Other	Alternative	68. 4
T55	Ezra Collective	Dance, No One's Watching	Funk	68. 4
58	OneRepublic	Artificial Paradise	Pop	68. 2
59	Remi Wolf	Big Ideas	Indie Poptimism	68. 0
T60	Annika Bennett	Live From Mother Earth	Pop	67. 8
T60	Cassandra Jenkins	My Light, My Destroyer	Indie Chamber Rock	67. 8
T60	Laura Marling	Patterns In Repeat	Chamber Folk	67. 8
T60	Cowboy Sadness	Selected Jambient Works, Vol. 1	Ambient	67. 8
T60	The Smile	Cutouts	Art Rock	67. 8
T60	Foreign Fields	What It Cost	Ambient Folk	67. 8
T60	Jane Weaver	Love In Constant Spectacle	Alternative	67. 8
T60	Porter Robinson	SMILE! 😀	Indie Electronic	67. 8
68	The Last Dinner Party	Prelude To Ecstasy	Alternative	67. 5
T69	Jamie xx	In Waves	Electronic	67. 4
T69	Pale Waves	Smitten	Indie Anthem Power Pop	67. 4
T71	Everything Everything	Mountainhead	Indie Pop	67. 3
T71	Lizzy McAlpine	Older	Alternative	67. 3
T71	SZA	LANA	Alternative R&B	67. 3
74	Bonny Light Horseman	Keep Me On Your Mind / See You Free	Chamber Folk	67. 0
T75	Helado Negro	PHASOR	Alternative	66. 7
T75	Nala Sinephro	Endlessness	Electronic	66. 7
T75	Jai Wolf	The Red Eye Home	Electronic	66. 7
T75	Julia-Sophie	forgive too slow	Electronic	66. 7
79	English Teacher	This Could Be Texas	Art Rock	66. 6
80	Wild Pink	Dulling The Horns	Indie Rock	66. 4
81	Our Girl	The Good Kind	Alt-Rock	66. 3
82	Gracie Abrams	The Secret Of Us	Pop	66. 1
T83	Lightning Bug	No Paradise	Indie Rock	65. 8
T83	Atlas Genius	End Of The Tunnel	Alternative Indie Rock	65. 8
T85	HONNE	OUCH	Pop	65. 6
T85	Tyler, The Creator	CHROMAKOPIA	Experimental Hip-Hop	65. 6
T87	Mdou Moctar	Funeral For Justice	African	65. 5
T87	The Smile	Wall Of Eyes	Art Rock	65. 5
T87	Nils Hoffmann	Running In A Dream	Progressive House	65. 5
T90	Blossoms	Gary	Alternative	65. 4
T90	Kendrick Lamar	GNX	Rap	65. 4
T92	Katherine Priddy	The Pendulum Swing	Folk Singer	65. 0
T92	Vampire Weekend	Only God Was Above Us	Indie Pop	65. 0
T92	Loma	How Will I Live Without A Body?	Alternative	65. 0
T92	Wallice	The Jester	Alternative	65. 0
T92	Smallpools	Ghost Town Road	Indie Anthem Power Pop	65. 0
T92	Chelsea Wolfe	She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She	Alternative	65. 0
T92	Haley Heynderickx	Seed Of A Seed	Indie Folk	65. 0
T99	A. G. Cook	Britpop	Electronic	64. 9
T99	Hovvdy	Hovvdy	Alternative	64. 9
T99	Tiny Habits	All For Something	Folk Singer	64. 9
T102	Logic	Ultra 85	Rap	64. 5
T102	Big Sean	Better Me Than You	Rap	64. 5
104	Incubus	Morning View XXIII	Alt-Rock	64. 3
105	beabadoobee	This Is How Tomorrow Moves	Bedroom Pop	63. 8
T106	BAYNK	SENESCENCE	Electronic	63. 6
T106	Childish Gambino	Bando Stone And The New World	Psychedelic Soul	63. 6
T106	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	South Of Here	Alt-Country	63. 6
T106	Khruangbin	A LA SALA	Neo-Psychedelia	63. 6
110	Kali Uchis	ORQUÍDEAS	Pop	63. 3
T111	Crawlers	The Mess We Seem To Make	Rock	62. 8
T111	Dummy	Free Energy	Neo-Psychedelia	62. 8
T113	Katie Pruitt	Mantras	Pop	62. 5
T113	Fabiana Palladino	Fabiana Palladino	Pop	62. 5
T115	Adrianne Lenker	Bright Future	Indie Folk	62. 3
T115	Los Campesinos!	All Hell	Alternative	62. 3
T117	Beth Gibbons	Lives Outgrown	Alternative	62. 0
T117	Kelly Moran	Moves In The Field	Classical	62. 0
T117	serpentwithfeet	GRIP	Alternative R&B	62. 0
T117	Iron & Wine	Light Verse	Indie Folk	62. 0
T121	Jon Hopkins	RITUAL	Ambient	61. 9
T121	The Cure	Songs Of A Lost World	Alternative	61. 9
T123	Bill Ryder-Jones	Iechyd Da	Alternative	61. 8
T123	KAYTRANADA	TIMELESS	Neo-R&B	61. 8
125	Doechii	Alligator Bites Never Heal	Alternative Rap	61. 6
126	Coldplay	Moon Music	Pop	61. 5
127	Waxahatchee	Tigers Blood	Alt-Country	61. 3
128	The Strike	A Dream Through Open Eyes	Indie Pop/Rock	61. 2
T129	Jake Xerxes Fussell	When I'm Called	Chamber Folk	60. 7
T129	Friko	Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here	Alternative	60. 7
T129	Cindy Lee	Diamond Jubilee	Neo-Psychedelia	60. 7
T132	Mighty Oaks	High Times	Folk-Pop	59. 6
T132	Kacey Musgraves	Deeper Well	Country	59. 6
T134	Childish Gambino	Atavista	Psychedelic Soul	59. 4
T134	Christopher Owens	I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair	Alternative	59. 4
T134	Destiny Rogers	Still Your Girl	Pop	59. 4
T137	Conchúr White	Swirling Violets	Indie	58. 9
T137	Strand Of Oaks	Miracle Focus	Alternative	58. 9
139	Coheed And Cambria	Claudio Covers	Rock	58. 6
T140	Alfie Templeman	Radiosoul	Alternative	58. 3
T140	Brittany Howard	What Now	Alternative	58. 3
142	Extravision	Temporary Fountain	Alternative	58. 1
143	Geographer	A Mirror Brightly	Indie Vapor Rock	57. 8
144	Nia Archives	Silence Is Loud	Indie Electronic	56. 8
T145	St. Vincent	All Born Screaming	Alternative	56. 7
T145	Alan Sparhawk	White Roses, My God	Electronic	56. 7
147	¥$	VULTURES 1	Alternative Rap	56. 6
T148	London Grammar	The Greatest Love	Alternative	56. 1
T148	TSHA	Sad Girl	Dance	56. 1
150	Taylor Swift	THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY	Pop	55. 9
151	Les Amazones d'Afrique	Musow Danse	African	55. 8
T152	Myriam Gendron	Mayday	Chamber Folk	55. 6
T152	ScHoolboy Q	BLUE LIPS	Rap	55. 6
T152	Local Natives	But I'll Wait For You	Alternative	55. 6
T152	DIIV	Frog In Boiling Water	Lo-Fi Indie	55. 6
156	Taylor Swift	THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT	Pop	55. 3
T157	Vince Staples	Dark Times	Alternative Rap	55. 2
T157	Kamasi Washington	Fearless Movement	Avant-Garde Jazz	55. 2
T157	Camera Obscura	Look To The East, Look To The West	Chamber Pop	55. 2
T157	Nadine Shah	Filthy Underneath	Alternative	55. 2
T157	Yard Act	Where’s My Utopia?	Alternative	55. 2
162	Marc Broussard	Time Is A Thief	Pop	55. 1
T163	Ray LaMontagne	Long Way Home	Folk Singer	54. 6
T163	Mannequin Pussy	I Got Heaven	Rock	54. 6
165	Confidence Man	3AM (LA LA LA)	Dance	54. 4
166	Still Corners	Dream Talk	Dream Pop	54. 2
167	Tycho	Infinite Health	Chillwave	54. 1
168	Dillom	Por Cesárea	Experimental Hip-Hop	53. 6
T169	Nilüfer Yanya	My Method Actor	Alternative	53. 3
T169	J. Cole	Might Delete Later	Rap	53. 3
171	Katy Kirby	Blue Raspberry	Alternative	52. 1
172	Zara Larsson	VENUS	Pop	52. 0
173	Gao The Arsonist	AND THEY MINE FOR OUR BODIES	Experimental Hip-Hop	51. 5
174	Sasha Alex Sloan	Me Again	Pop	50. 9
T175	Jon Foreman	In Bloom	Mellow Alternative	49. 3
T175	The Staves	All Now	Folk-Rock	49. 3
177	Empire Of The Sun	Ask That God	Metropop	48. 9
178	Bad Bunny	DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS	Pop	48. 3
179	Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties	In Lieu Of Flowers	Rock	48. 0
180	Lawrence	Family Business	Pop	47. 6
181	Maggie Rogers	Don't Forget Me	Pop	47. 4
182	¥$	VULTURES 2	Alternative Rap	46. 7
183	Naima Bock	Below A Massive Dark Land	Alternative	46. 2
184	Jack White	No Name	Rock	46. 1
185	Foxing	Foxing	Experimental	40. 8
186	Floating Points	Cascade	Electronic	37. 4
187	Thom Yorke	Confidenza \|Original Soundtrack\|	Original Score	36. 9

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The Fine Print

The aFIREintheattic Power Index formula is top secret… but here’s a frivolous hint since we like you: It’s sort of like a logarithmic function on the weighted mean of the committee’s song ratings, which is then standardized-ish and scaled from 0 to 100. Talk nerdy to me.
All songs on an album or EP are rated and contribute to its Power Index. As a result, releases that are cohesive and consistently good, with fewer filler tracks, will invariably score higher than those with only a handful of great songs and a bunch of throwaways. Here, a release cannot be greater than the sum of its parts. For rankings that take that phenomenon into account, look to the aFIREintheattic Awards at the end of each year.
Note that EPs can tend toward higher scores than albums because sometimes an EP is a precursor to a full album and that album will contain the songs from the EP but with the addition of filler tracks that drag the Power Index score down.
Albums with a Power Index of 80 or higher and EPs with a Power Index of 70 or higher are a solid bet for a top 10 finish. The two highest scoring albums of all-time are Radiohead’s Kid A at 100.0 and OK Computer at 99.9 and the highest scoring EPs are Vancouver Sleep Clinic’s Winter at 96.7 and James Bay’s The Dark Of The Morning at 94.7. And we’ll be forthright: they probably always will be.
If a release is in the power rankings but is not in the playlist above, it’s not available on Spotify. The playlist is made up of the most popular song from each album in order based on its current power ranking.

EPs

Ranked EPs of 2024 as rated by the committee of one.

RANK	ARTIST	EP	GENRE	POWER INDEX	RATING
1	Bon Iver	SABLE,	Ambient Folk	88. 0
2	Forest Claudette	Jupiter	Alternative R&B	81. 3
3	Astrid S	Joyride	Pop	73. 8
4	Hundred Waters	Towers	Alternative	71. 2
5	Winona Oak	Void	Pop	70. 8
T6	Shallou	24, Summer	Electronic	70. 2
T6	Glades	Flash	Pop	70. 2
T6	Angie McMahon	Light Sides	Alternative	70. 2
T9	TWO LANES	Innervision	Electronic	69. 6
T9	Talos & Atli Örvarsson	Sun Divider	Ambient Folk	69. 6
T9	Shallou	24, autumn	Electronic	69. 6
12	Aquilo	You Should Get Some Sleep	Ambient Folk	67. 8
T13	Bay Ledges	Rivers	Sunshine Indie	66. 7
T13	The Wild Wild	The Califlora Of Future Past	Sunshine Indie	66. 7
T13	Nils Frahm	Day	Classical	66. 7
T16	Aquilo	A Quiet Invitation To A Hard Conversation	Ambient Folk	65. 5
T16	Jessica Pratt	Here In The Pitch	Folk	65. 5
T18	Joan Shelley	Mood Ring	Folk Singer	65. 3
T18	Young Collective, Red Licorice, & Utah	Lower Fidelity Too	Chillwave	65. 3
20	Half Waif	Ephemeral Being	Alternative	65. 2
T21	Tinashe	Quantum Baby	Alternative R&B	64. 0
T21	Amber Mark	Loosies	Neo-R&B	64. 0
23	Marika Hackman	Little Sigh	Alternative	63. 4
24	Jorja Smith	falling or flying	Contemporary R&B	62. 3
25	Tom Misch	Six Songs	Neo-Soul	61. 5
26	The Band CAMINO	Bruises	Pop	60. 7
27	AUGUST 08	Pretend It's Okay	Neo-R&B	60. 2
28	Highasakite & Hver gang vi møtes	Break It Right	Indie Poptimism	60. 0
29	YUS	Hyperspiritual	Electronic	59. 9
T30	Good Neighbours	Good Neighbours	Classic Indie	59. 8
T30	PVRIS	F.I.L.T.H.	Dark Pop	59. 8
T30	Runnner	dust 2	Ambient	59. 8
33	Whole Damn Mess	Whole Damn Mess	Alternative Indie Rock	59. 1
34	SYML	Infinity	Alternative	57. 8
T35	Bombay Bicycle Club	Fantasies	Indie Pop	56. 8
T35	Tove Lo & SG Lewis	HEAT	Pop	56. 8
37	Tourist & Gold Panda	Us Two	Dance	56. 6
T38	Kylie Minogue	Tension II	Pop	56. 1
T38	Mysie	CONTROLLA	Electronic	56. 1
T40	Runnner	starsdust	Ambient	54. 6
T40	Cavetown	little vice	Indie Poptimism	54. 6
42	Andrew Belle	Nightshade	Pop	54. 0
43	Pell	We'll Talk Soon	Rap	50. 4
T44	Emotional Oranges & Nonso Amadi	Blended	Urban	49. 2
T44	Little Simz	Drop 7	Hip-Hop	49. 2
46	Shygirl, Cosha & Club Shy	Club Shy	Dance	41. 4
47	Blossoms	Gary's Covers	Alternative	31. 6
48	Shygirl & Cosha	Club Shy (extended)	Dance	14. 6

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The Fine Print

The aFIREintheattic Power Index formula is top secret… but here’s a frivolous hint since we like you: It’s sort of like a logarithmic function on the weighted mean of the committee’s song ratings, which is then standardized-ish and scaled from 0 to 100. Talk nerdy to me.
All songs on an album or EP are rated and contribute to its Power Index. As a result, releases that are cohesive and consistently good, with fewer filler tracks, will invariably score higher than those with only a handful of great songs and a bunch of throwaways. Here, a release cannot be greater than the sum of its parts. For rankings that take that phenomenon into account, look to the aFIREintheattic Awards at the end of each year.
Note that EPs can tend toward higher scores than albums because sometimes an EP is a precursor to a full album and that album will contain the songs from the EP but with the addition of filler tracks that drag the Power Index score down.
Albums with a Power Index of 80 or higher and EPs with a Power Index of 70 or higher are a solid bet for a top 10 finish. The two highest scoring albums of all-time are Radiohead’s Kid A at 100.0 and OK Computer at 99.9 and the highest scoring EPs are Vancouver Sleep Clinic’s Winter at 96.7 and James Bay’s The Dark Of The Morning at 94.7. And we’ll be forthright: they probably always will be.
If a release is in the power rankings but is not in the playlist above, it’s not available on Spotify. The playlist is made up of the most popular song from each album in order based on its current power ranking.