NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2011

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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.