The Guardian's Best Albums of 2026

Lost Weekend

Phoebe Bridgers (2026)

Loud Bloom

Olof Dreijer (2026)

THRASHER

Brandon Flowers (2026)

Blue Island

Ravyn Lenae (2026)

Black Boy (Alternative)

Dahi (2026)

The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales

Shaboozey (2026)

A Stranger To You

Loathe (2026)

Secret Love

Dry Cleaning (2026)

Foreign Tongues

The Rolling Stones (2026)

Goldmark and Sibelius: Works for Violin and Orchestra

Sueye Park (2026)

CONFESSIONS II

Madonna (2026)

Reality Awaits

The Strokes (2026)

The Wow! Signal

Muse (2026)

Offering

Ibeyi (2026)

The Dark

Chelsea Wolfe (2026)

So Help Me God

Kelsey Lu (2026)

you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

Olivia Rodrigo (2026)

The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Paul McCartney (2026)

Philadelphia's been good to me

Kurt Vile (2026)

Anenoa

Matias Aguayo (2026)

Little Wide Open

Kevin Morby (2026)

Train on the Island

Aldous Harding (2026)

Poem 1

Ana Roxanne (2026)

Trying Times

James Blake (2026)

Memory Be a Blade

waterbaby (2026)

Confession

Carla dal Forno (2026)

Vila

Fabiano do Nascimento (2026)

DISCOMBOBULATED

Hen Ogledd (2026)

The Anthology of Unamerican Folk Music

Marisa Anderson (2026)

YEARNALISM

Baby Rose (2026)

FENIAN

Kneecap (2026)

PRIMA

ADÉLA (2026)

Who Loves The Sun

Chat Pile (2026)

DOOMED!

Open Mike Eagle (2026)

petal

Ariana Grande (2026)

THERAPY AT THE CLUB

FLO (2026)

Little Miss Twain

Shania Twain (2026)

Frozen Charlotte

Jack White (2026)

Be Sweet To Me

Violet Grohl (2026)

Superbloom

Jessie Ware (2026)

THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.

RAYE (2026)

Trixies

Squeeze (2026)

Heaven 2

Lala Lala (2026)

Vacancy

Ari Lennox (2026)

Long Way Home

STELLA LEFTY (2026)

BITCH

Lizzo (2026)

Inferno

Boards of Canada (2026)

MAID OF HONOUR

Drake (2026)

Daughter from Hell

Gracie Abrams (2026)

The Romantic

Bruno Mars (2026)