NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2012 explained

The NME Album of the Year and Single Of The Year was announced on 20 November 2012. It was the 39th countdown of the most popular albums and tracks of the year, as chosen by music reviewers and independent journalists who work for the magazine and for NME.com.[1] [2]

Albums

Note: UK artists
AlbumArtistCountry of origin
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12 &
13 Oshin
14
15
16
17
18 Baby
19
20
21
22
23
24 Children Of Desire Merchandise
25
26
27
28
29
30 Other People's Problems
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43 Wiki93 Ratking
44
45 Born To Die[3] Lana Del Rey
46
47
48
49
50

Countries represented

Singles

Note: UK artists
TrackArtistCountry of origin
1 "Best Of Friends"
2 "Bad Girls"
3 "Under the Westway"
4 "Forever"
5 "Ill Manors"
6 "Oblivion"
7 "Lightning Bolt"
8 "Laura"
9 "Elephant"
10 "Sixteen Saltines"
11 "Husbands"
12 "Pyramids"
13 "California Daze"
14 "Breezeblocks"
15 "Clique"
16 "Genesis" Grimes
17 "Come on, be a No-One"
18 "R U Mine?"
19 "Losing You"
20 "Call Me Maybe"
21 "I Follow You"
22 "Higher Ground" /
23 "Wildest Moments"
24 "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
25 "You Broke My Cool"
26 "Chi-Town" The Cribs
27 "Ruin"
28 "Lies"
29 "New York"
30 "Cough Cough"
31 "Gonna Make My Own Money"
32 "Who" &
33 "Lies"
34 "Jasmine"
35 "Rock Bottom"
36 "Teenage Icon"
37 "What You Came For"
38 "Friday Night, Don't Ever Let It End"
39 "Mercy"
40 "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" Tame Impala
41 "Default"
42 "Doom and Gloom"
43 "Bloodshake" Peace
44 "Wrath Of God"
45 "Ima Read" Zebra Katz
46 "Forrest Gump" Frank Ocean
47 "Follow Baby" Peace
48 "Get Free"
49 "Backseat Freestyle"
50 "Gangnam Style"

Artists with multiple entries

3 Entries

2 Entries

Countries represented

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NME's best albums and tracks of 2012. NME. 6 October 2016.
  2. Web site: 50 Best Tracks of 2012 | NME.COM . . 2020-04-21 . 2016-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160424145354/http://www.nme.com/blogs/the-big-picture/50-best-tracks-of-2012 . dead .
  3. The track "Video Games" won Single of the Year in 2011.