米ローリングストーン誌が「（現時点までの）2012年ベスト・アルバム TOP40」を発表

Bruce Springsteen, 'Wrecking Ball'
Jack White, 'Blunderbuss'
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Americana'
Fiona Apple, 'The Idler Wheel...'
John Mayer, 'Born and Raised'
Sleigh Bells, 'Reign of Terror'
Leonard Cohen, 'Old Ideas'
The Beach Boys, 'That's Why God Made the Radio'
Cloud Nothings, 'Attack on Memory'
Best Coast, 'The Only Place'
Japandroids, 'Celebration Rock'
Killer Mike, 'R.A.P. Music'
Patti Smith, 'Banga'
Azealia Banks, '1991 EP'
The Shins, 'Port of Morrow'
Bonnie Raitt, 'Slipstream'
Dr. John, 'Locked Down'
Regina Spektor, 'What We Saw From the Cheap Seats'
Hospitality, 'Hospitality'
Escort, 'Escort'
Garbage, 'Not Your Kind of People'
Norah Jones, 'Little Broken Hearts'
Himanshu, 'Nehru Jackets'
Alabama Shakes, 'Boys and Girls'
Schoolboy Q, 'Habits and Contradictions'
Django Django, 'Django Django'
Smashing Pumpkins, 'Oceania'
Amadou & Mariam, 'Folila'
Sharon Van Etten, 'Tramp'
Beach House, 'Bloom'
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, 'Here'
Justin Townes Earle, 'Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now'
M. Ward, 'A Wasteland Companion'
Allo Darlin', 'Europe'
Bobby Womack, 'The Bravest Man in the Universe'
Usher, 'Looking 4 Myself'
Adam Lambert, 'Trespassing'
Rufus Wainwright, 'Out of the Game'
Grimes, 'Visions'
El-P, 'Cancer 4 Cure'