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NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2011

The NME Album of the Year and Single Of The Year were announced on 23 November 2011. It was the 38th 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 edit

Note: UK artists
# Album Artist Country of origin
1 Let England Shake PJ Harvey   United Kingdom
2 The English Riviera Metronomy   United Kingdom
3 Skying The Horrors   United Kingdom
4 Smother Wild Beasts   United Kingdom
5 Smoke Ring for My Halo Kurt Vile   United States
6 Suck It And See Arctic Monkeys   United Kingdom
7 Strange Mercy St. Vincent   United States
8 On a Mission Katy B   United Kingdom
9 w h o k i l l tUnE-yArDs   United States
10 Go Tell Fire to the Mountain WU LYF   United Kingdom
11 Anna Calvi Anna Calvi   United Kingdom
12 Again into Eyes S.C.U.M   United Kingdom
13 Zeroes QC Suuns   Canada
14 What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? The Vaccines   United Kingdom
15 Wild Flag Wild Flag   United States
16 A Different Kind of Fix Bombay Bicycle Club   United Kingdom
17 Gloss Drop Battles   United States
18 Cat's Eyes Cat's Eyes   United Kingdom
19 A Creature I Don't Know Laura Marling   United Kingdom
20 The King of Limbs Radiohead   United Kingdom
21 Velociraptor! Kasabian   United Kingdom
22 Last Night on Earth Noah and the Whale   United Kingdom
23 Yuck Yuck   United Kingdom
24 Big Talk Big Talk   United States
25 W Planningtorock   United Kingdom
26 Father, Son, Holy Ghost Girls   United States
27 Arabia Mountain Black Lips   United States
28 Looping State of Mind The Field   Sweden
29 Dye It Blonde Smith Westerns   United States
30 Pala Friendly Fires   United Kingdom
31 Ceremonials Florence and the Machine   United Kingdom
32 Submarine EP Alex Turner   United Kingdom
33 Audio, Video, Disco Justice   France
34 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra   United States /   New Zealand
35 Nine Types of Light TV on the Radio   United States
36 New Brigade Iceage   Denmark
37 D White Denim   United States
38 Biophilia Björk   Iceland
39 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds   United Kingdom
40 Cherish the Light Years Cold Cave   United States
41 Exmilitary Death Grips   United States
42 Lupercalia Patrick Wolf   United Kingdom
43 Wasting Light Foo Fighters   United States
44 Kaputt Destroyer   Canada
45 Feel It Break Austra   Canada
46 Bon Iver Bon Iver   United States
47 Days Real Estate   United States
48 Paradise Slow Club   United Kingdom
49 SBTRKT SBTRKT   United Kingdom
50 Watch the Throne Jay-Z & Kanye West   United States

Countries represented edit

Singles edit

Note: UK artists
# Track Artist Country of origin
1 "Video Games" Lana Del Rey   United States
2 "Yonkers" Tyler, The Creator   United States
3 "Still Life" The Horrors   United Kingdom
4 "The Words That Maketh Murder" PJ Harvey   United Kingdom
5 "Bed Of Nails" Wild Beasts   United Kingdom
6 "Ice Cream" Battles   United States
7 "The Bay" Metronomy   United Kingdom
8 "Bizness" tUnE-yArDs   United States
9 "I Told You Once" Howler   United States
10 "Midnight City" M83   France
11 "The Look" Metronomy   United Kingdom
12 "Baby's Arms" Kurt Vile   United States
13 "The Fox" Niki & The Dove   Sweden
14 "If You Wanna" The Vaccines   United Kingdom
15 "Never Fade Away" Spector   United Kingdom
16 "I Want You" Summer Camp   United Kingdom
17 "Broken Record" Katy B   United Kingdom
18 "212" Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay   United States /   Belgium
19 "Blackout" Anna Calvi   United Kingdom
20 "Beyond Living" Milk Music   United States
21 "Pumped Up Kicks" Foster The People   United States
22 "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" Arctic Monkeys   United Kingdom
23 "Shake It Out" Florence and the Machine   United Kingdom
24 "The World Is Yours" Glasvegas   United Kingdom
25 "Under Cover of Darkness" The Strokes   United States
26 "We Found Love" Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris   Barbados /   United Kingdom
27 "Ritual Union" Little Dragon   Sweden
28 "Post Break-Up Sex" The Vaccines   United Kingdom
29 "Shuffle" Bombay Bicycle Club   United Kingdom
30 "Rolling in the Deep" Adele   United Kingdom
31 "Money" The Drums   United States
32 "Liiines" Ghostpoet   United Kingdom
33 "Piledriver Waltz" Alex Turner   United Kingdom
34 "Beat and the Pulse" Austra   Canada
35 "Wildfire" SBTRKT featuring Little Dragon   United Kingdom /   Sweden
36 "My House" Hercules and Love Affair   United States
37 "Radioactive" Marina and the Diamonds   United Kingdom
38 "Run The World (Girls)" Beyoncé   United States
39 "I'm His Girl" Friends   United States
40 "Civilization" Justice   France
41 "She Wants" Metronomy   United Kingdom
42 "(R E A L L O V E)" Factory Floor   United Kingdom
43 "Reckless (With Your Love)" Azari & III   Canada
44 "Gabriel" Joe Goddard featuring Valentina   United Kingdom
45 "Broken Bone" Iceage   Denmark
46 "Lose It" Austra   Canada
47 "Muscle Memory" Dananananaykroyd   United Kingdom
48 "The Great Pan is Dead" Cold Cave   United States
49 "If I Had A Gun..." Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds   United Kingdom
50 "AKA... What a Life!" Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds   United Kingdom

Artists with multiple entries edit

3 Entries

  • Metronomy (7, 11, 41)

2 Entries

  • The Vaccines (14, 28)
  • Austra (34, 46)
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (49, 50)

Countries represented edit

References edit

  1. ^ "NME's best albums and tracks of 2011". NME. 10 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Pictures of 50 best tracks of the year 2011 - Photos - NME.COM". NME. Archived from the original on 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
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