NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2013 explained

The NME Album of the Year & Single Of The Year was announced on 3 December 2013. It was the 40th 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 Random Access Memories Daft Punk
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 Drenge
14
15
16
17
18 Pearl Mystic
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31 Totale Nite Merchandise
32 180[3] Palma Violets
33
34
35
36
37
38 A Sea Of Split Peas
39
40
41
42 Mug Museum
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50

Countries represented

Singles

Note: UK artists
TrackArtistCountry of origin
1 "Get Lucky"
2 "Reflektor"
3
4 "White Noise"
5 "Sacrilege"
6 "Avant Gardener"
7 "Xanman"
8 "My Number"
9 "Royals"
10 "Black Skinhead"
11 "Anxiety's Door" Merchandise
12 "Jubilee Street"
13 "Falling"
14 "Where Are We Now?"
15 "Bloodsports"
16 "Smooth Sailing"
17 "After You" (Soulwax remix)
18 "I Am A God"
19 "If I Had A Tail"
20 "Wild for the Night"
21 "She Will"
22 "Bound 2"
23 "The Throw"
24 "Ya Hey"
25 "Master Hunter"
26 "2013"
27 "Solemn Skies" Childhood
28 "Open Eye Signal"
29 "I Wanna Be Yours"
30 "Recover"
31 "Diane Young"
32 "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?"
33 "Fall Back"
34 "Entertainment"
35 "Fluffy"
36 "New Slaves"
37 "Bad Habit"
38 "Bring The Noize"
39 "5 AM"
40 "Jerk Ribs"
41 "Control"
42 "Easy Easy"
43 "Colours To Life"
44 "Stoned And Starving"
45 "Juice"
46 "Retrograde"
47 "Leather Jacket Love Song"
48 "Follow" Telegram
49 "Indie Cindy"
50 "Is It Raining In Your Mouth?" Fat White Family

Artists with multiple entries

4 Entries:

3 Entries:

2 Entries:

Countries represented

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NME's best albums and tracks of 2013. NME. 4 October 2016.
  2. Web site: Arctic Monkeys' 'AM' named NME Album of the Year 2013 | NME.COM . . 2020-04-21 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192429/http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/74201 . dead .
  3. The track "Best Of Friends" won Single of the Year in 2012.
  4. Credited to fictional band "The Reflektors" on cover artwork.