I collected over 14 lists of Best Music (albums) of 2024 from the Internet, newspapers and magazines and compiled them into one meta-list. Here are the results: every recording on four or more of the original source lists, organized by rank (that is, with the albums on the most lists at the top).
Note 1: I have provided genre descriptions of the artist from Wikipedia as a guide.
Note 2: These are not my personal opinions. I have not listened to all this music.
Note 3: An asterisk means I own the recording.
On 14 Lists
Charli XCX – Brat (electropop/hyperpop/pop-punk)
On 11 Lists
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter (country/Americana)
Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (indie rock/indie folk/country)*
On 10 Lists
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World (gothic rock/space rock)*
Fontaines D.C. – Romance (post-punk/alternative rock)*
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (indie rock/alt-country/slacker rock)*
On 9 Lists
Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (Pakistani folk music/bebop jazz)*
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet (pop/R&B)
Kendrick Lamar – GNX (West Coast hip hop)
Mk.gee – Two Star & the Dream Police (indie/alternative/lo-fi)
Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (rock/blues/assouf)*
Tyler, the Creator – Chromakopia (alternative hip hop/neo soul/jazz rap)
On 8 Lists
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft (alt-pop/bedroom pop)
Kim Gordon – The Collective (hip hop/trap/noise/industrial)*
Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (indie folk)*
On 7 Lists
Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal (hip hop/R&B/pop)
Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat (folk/folk rock/indie folk)
Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (folk)*
Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (jazz/ambient/avant-garde jazz)*
Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us (indie rock/chamber pop/neo-psychedelia)*
On 6 Lists
Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (pop/rock/no wave/noise)
Clairo – Charm (soft rock/lo-fi/indie pop)*
Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown (folk/alternative rock/baroque pop)*
Brittany Howard – What Now (Americana/garage rock/roots rock)*
Mustafa – Dunya (folk/R&B/spoken word)
ScHoolboy Q – Blue Lips (West Coast hip hop)
Tems – Born in the Wild (Afrobeats/R&B/alté)
Kali Uchis – Orquídeas (R&B/neo soul/Latin)
Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor (indie rock/alternative rock)
On 5 Lists
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (death metal/progressive rock/ambient)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God (alternative rock/gothic rock/post-punk)*
Charli XCX – Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat (electropop/hyperpop/pop-punk)
English Teacher – This Could Be Texas (indie rock)
Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes (avant-garde/experimental)*
Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive (Americana)*
Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (ambient pop/folk-pop)
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (metalcore/hardcore punk/beatdown hardcore)
Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (jazz)*
St. Vincent – All Born Screaming (rock/pop/art rock)
Tyla – Tyla (amapiano/R&B/pop)
On 4 Lists
Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More (alternative rock/noise pop)*
Future & Metro Boomin – We Don’t Trust You (Southern hip hop/trap/mumble rap)
Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine (pop/R&B)
Vijay Iyer – Compassion (jazz)
Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (punk rock/indie rock/noise rock)
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (synth-pop/folk-pop/chamber pop)
The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy (indie rock/art rock/baroque pop)*
Claire Rousay – Sentiment (ambient/emo/musique concrète)
The Smile – Wall of Eyes (art rock/post-punk)
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland (country/bluegrass/Americana)
Jack White – No Name (blues rock/garage rock/punk blues)
On 3 Lists
Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene (alt-country/honky-tonk/red dirt)
Chat Pile – Cool World (sludge metal/noise rock)
Chief Keef – Almighty So 2 (hip hop/drill/trap)
Rachel Chinouriri – What a Devastating Turn of Events (alternative pop/indie pop/Britpop revival)
A.G. Cook – Britpop (electronic/pop/experimental)
Elucid – Revelator (East Coast hip hop)
Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching (jazz/hip hop/Afrobeat)
GloRilla – Glorious (hip hop/crunk/trap)
Kaytranada – Timeless (electronic/hip hop/R&B/funk)
Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes (indie rock/folk rock/soul)*
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well (country/pop/folk)
Helado Negro – Phasor (Latin/folk/experimental)
Fabiana Palladino – Fabiana Palladino (pop/R&B)
Peso Pluma – Éxodo (Regional Mexican/corridos tumbados/reggaetón)
Rema – HEIS (Afrobeats/Afrorave/hip hop/trap)
Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da (folk/minimal/alternative rock)
Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (jazz/jazz fusion/afrobeat)
Vince Staples – Dark Times (West Coast hip hop)
Still House Plants – If I Don’t Make It, I Love U (art rock/experimental rock)
Yasmin Williams – Acadia (contemporary folk/country/instrumental)*
Remi Wolf – Big Ideas (soul/pop/funk)