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Poll results: Listeners pick their favorite albums of 2023

If nothing else, the season of list-making is a good gut-check: After another breakneck year during which tens of thousands of new albums dropped, which ones are still capturing our imaginations, moving us to tears or giving us life?

When we put the question to NPR's listeners, respondents in our online poll picked a clear favorite for 2023: the debut¹ album from boygenius called, simply, the record. No shade of course to all the other favorites, but the trio featuring Julien Baker², Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus brought in more than twice the number of votes as the next closest contender, Sufjan Stevens' Javelin³.

Below you'll see a list of the top 50, most-selected albums in our poll, ranked by number of votes. Our thanks to everyone who participated. Be sure to also check out NPR Music's favorite 50 albums of 2023, along with our best songs list and all the other coverage⁴ in our year-end package, including the Top 10 classical albums, our critics' roundtable deep-dive into the year's most notable albums and more.

2023 Listeners Poll results

1. boygenius: the record

2. Sufjan Stevens: Javelin

3. Caroline Polachek: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

4. The National: Laugh Track

5. Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

6. Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS⁵

7. Lana Del Rey: Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Weathervanes

9. Hozier: Unreal Unearth⁶

10. SZA: SOS

11. Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure

12. 100 gecs: 10,000 gecs

13. Bully⁷: Lucky for You

14. Agust D: D-DAY

15. Wednesday: Rat Saw God

16. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown: SCARING THE HOES

17. Feist: Multitudes

18. Jessie Ware⁸: That! Feels Good!

19. billy woods & Kenny Segal: Maps

20. Paramore: This Is Why

21. Lankum: False Lankum

22. Joy Oladokun: Proof Of Life

23. Peter Gabriel: i/o

24. Sampha: Lahai

25. Troye Sivan: Something to Give Each Other

26. Zach Bryan: Zach Bryan

27. Blondshell: Blondshell

28. Noname: Sundial

29. Nickel Creek⁹: Celebrants

30. Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

31. Youth Lagoon¹⁰: Heaven Is a Junkyard

32. Foo Fighters: But Here We Are

33. Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine

34. Palehound: Eye On The Bat

35. Margo Price: Strays

36. Ratboys: The Window

37. Indigo¹¹ De Souza: All of This Will End

38. Gorillaz: Cracker¹² Island

39. Jess Williamson: Time Ain't Accidental

40. Miya Folick: Roach

41. Gia Margaret: Romantic Piano

42. Jeff Rosenstock: HELLMODE

43. Samia: Honey

44. Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark

45. Blur¹³: The Ballad¹⁴ of Darren

46. Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman...

47. Belle¹⁵ and Sebastian: Late Developers

48. Jenny Lewis: Joy'All

49. Laufey: Bewitched

50. Travis Scott: UTOPIA

1 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

2 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

3 javelin   

n.标枪，投枪

参考例句：

• She achieved a throw of sixty metres in the javelin event.在掷标枪项目中，她掷了60米远。
• The coach taught us how to launch a javelin.教练教我们投标枪。

4 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

5 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 unearth   

v.发掘，掘出，从洞中赶出

参考例句：

• Most of the unearth relics remain intact.大多数出土文物仍保持完整无损。
• More human remains have been unearthed in the north.北部又挖掘出了更多的人体遗骸。

7 bully   

n.恃强欺弱者，小流氓；vt.威胁，欺侮

参考例句：

• A bully is always a coward.暴汉常是懦夫。
• The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。

8 ware   

n.(常用复数)商品，货物

参考例句：

• The shop sells a great variety of porcelain ware.这家店铺出售品种繁多的瓷器。
• Good ware will never want a chapman.好货不须叫卖。

9 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

10 lagoon   

n.泻湖，咸水湖

参考例句：

• The lagoon was pullulated with tropical fish.那个咸水湖聚满了热带鱼。
• This area isolates a restricted lagoon environment.将这一地区隔离起来使形成一个封闭的泻湖环境。

11 indigo   

n.靛青，靛蓝

参考例句：

• The sky was indigo blue,and a great many stars were shining.天空一片深蓝，闪烁着点点繁星。
• He slipped into an indigo tank.他滑落到蓝靛桶中。

12 cracker   

n.（无甜味的）薄脆饼干

参考例句：

• Buy me some peanuts and cracker.给我买一些花生和饼干。
• There was a cracker beside every place at the table.桌上每个位置旁都有彩包爆竹。

13 blur   

n.模糊不清的事物；vt.使模糊，使看不清楚

参考例句：

• The houses appeared as a blur in the mist.房子在薄雾中隐隐约约看不清。
• If you move your eyes and your head,the picture will blur.如果你的眼睛或头动了，图像就会变得模糊不清。

14 ballad   

n.歌谣，民谣，流行爱情歌曲

参考例句：

• This poem has the distinctive flavour of a ballad.这首诗有民歌风味。
• This is a romantic ballad that is pure corn.这是一首极为伤感的浪漫小曲。

15 belle   

n.靓女

参考例句：

• She was the belle of her Sunday School class.在主日学校她是她们班的班花。
• She was the belle of the ball.她是那个舞会中的美女。