Like you might expect from one of the last major music magazines still in print, it includes plenty of mainstream pop and rock choices, including Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, and Adele, but they're alongside albums by Tyler the Creator, Snail Mail, Adult Mom, Dry Cleaning, The Weather Station, Dawn Richard, Turnstile, Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, Illuminati Hotties, Boldy James and the Alchemist, and more.
See the list below, and read it in full, with commentary, on Rolling Stone.
ROLLING STONE'S TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2021.James McMurtry, 'The Horses and the Hounds'.
Boldy James and the Alchemist, 'Bo Jackson'.
Iron Maiden, 'Senjutsu'.
Illuminati Hotties, 'Let Me Do One More'.
Snail Mail, 'Valentine'.
Dawn Richard, 'Second Line'.
Lucy Dacus, 'Home Video'
Tyler, the Creator, 'Call Me If You Get Lost'