{"id":769725,"date":"2019-12-22T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/22\/best-albums-and-songs-of-2019-lana-del-rey-billie-eilish-and-lil-nas-x\/"},"modified":"2019-12-22T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:11:20","slug":"best-albums-and-songs-of-2019-lana-del-rey-billie-eilish-and-lil-nas-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/22\/best-albums-and-songs-of-2019-lana-del-rey-billie-eilish-and-lil-nas-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Best albums and songs of 2019: Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lana Del Rey\u2019s complex and beguiling fifth album, Norman Rockwell, was music critics\u2019 favourite record of 2019.<\/p>\n

Full of luscious soft-rock ballads that peer uneasily at the demise of the American Dream, the album has topped a \u201cpoll of polls\u201d compiled by BBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you so much to the BBC for album of the year,\u201d the star said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was such a meaningful, fun record to make. I enjoyed every minute of it. It\u2019s lovely to see it receiving so much attention from friends and critics.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cEvery word and melody came in a joyfully unexpected way and from the bottom of my heart, so I\u2019m super-happy for Norman, grateful for Jack [Antonoff] for helping me make this record and looking forward to inspiration striking me again for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BBC\u2019s chart was compiled from 30 end-of-year lists published by the world\u2019s most influential music magazines, blogs, newspapers and broadcasters \u2013 including the NME, Rolling Stone, BBC 6 and France\u2019s Les Inrockuptibles magazine.<\/p>\n

Records were assigned points based on their position in each list \u2013 with the number one album getting 20 points, the number two album receiving 19 points, and so on.<\/p>\n

Female artists dominated the list, accounting for eight of the top 10 albums.<\/p>\n

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Critics\u2019 top 10 albums of 2019<\/h2>\n

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In total, the critics named 189 records among their favourites, from the literate punk of Dublin\u2019s Fontaines DC to the exuberant pop of US star Lizzo.<\/p>\n

There was no love for the UK\u2019s best-selling albums of 2019 \u2013 Ed Sheeran\u2019s No. 6 Collaborations Project and Lewis Capaldi\u2019s Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent \u2013 while Taylor Swift\u2019s Lover, which has sold in excess of three million copies worldwide, took 22nd place.<\/p>\n

Lana Del Rey\u2019s album soared above the competition, earning 389 points (from a potential 600) and scoring top marks from Q Magazine, The Guardian and Pitchfork.<\/p>\n

Billed as \u201ca folk record with a little surf twist\u201d, it topped the UK charts in August, and recently earned the US star her first Grammy nomination for album of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorman Rockwell feels like the album that Lana Del Rey has been building towards for her entire career, a perfectly realised synthesis of her aesthetic and her classicist pop songwriting,\u201d\u00a0enthused Stereogum\u2019s Peter Helman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like a languid Laurel Canyon fever dream \u2013 lightly psychedelic folk-rock ballads that got lost on their way to Dennis Wilson\u2019s favourite bar and sat down at a piano bench instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the album\u2019s key tracks, The Greatest, also featured in critics\u2019 top 10 songs of the year, alongside Lil Nas X\u2019s country-rap crossover Old Town Road and FKA Twigs\u2019 devastating ballad Cellophane.<\/p>\n

Billie Eilish\u2019s unconventional pop hit Bad Guy was the overall winner after taking pole position in seven separate \u201cbest of 2019\u201d lists.<\/p>\n

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Critics\u2019 top 10 songs of 2019<\/h2>\n

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