It’s here! Since 2007, the Hype Machine Music Blog Zeitgeist is our annual roundup of the year’s most exciting music. Here’s what we have for you this time:
Top 50 Artists: We analyzed all posts in 2013 to find the 50 most-discussed artists, and asked Séamus Gallagher to illustrate. Listen to a track from each of the artists while you scroll, and click through to their latest release.
Top 50 Tracks: We compiled a list of tracks favorited the most on the site throughout the year, and asked some of the year’s top artists to make a mix. The first one up is from HAIM, and we’ve got more coming every day this week. You can also see the full track list here.
Enjoy this look back at the music of 2013! And if you’re looking for more best-of music lists, Largehearted Boy has the ultimate resource.
As an extra bonus, we’ve also compiled the list of album premieres that we have had in 2013, and restored the older Zeitgeist releases from 2007–2012 to their former glory. Let the archivist in you dive in!
Thank you for being with us this year.
UPDATE: As if it wasn’t enough, we also wrapped up 2013 in UK blogs along with BBC6 Music. Give it a listen!
what happened to top albums???
December 12, 2013 7:13 pm
No top albums this year? That was my favorite feature of this blog!
December 16, 2013 4:50 pm
We’ll probably have a bigger post explaining the missing Top Albums list of the year (in short, we don’t think it’s interesting or distinct enough from the Top Artists list), but instead check out the records we premiered this year: http://hypem.com/premiere/telescope%20thieves#prev-premieres
December 16, 2013 4:55 pm
Good work guys! Thanks for all the hard work you put into the Hype Machine.
December 16, 2013 4:58 pm
freaking love these! thank you for these EVERY YEAR! and all the artwork for each top 50 artist is awesome
December 16, 2013 5:23 pm
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December 18, 2013 12:25 am
Thank you for your effort and this great listing. However, I agree with the others that the album ranking was far more interesting than the song rating! It IS distinctive to the artist ranking (if not i’d suggest you drop the artist ranking) and is/was distinctive to all the other top-lists on the internet and for me the one i was looking forward to for 365 days each year.
December 18, 2013 4:31 am
I appreciate the work you put into this, but if you’re looking for feedback, I’m VERY interested in the top albums of the year. It was a great way to discover the best music from the past 12 months. Hope you’ll consider bringing it back next time around!
December 18, 2013 8:18 pm
When are you going to release the end of the year mixes? I still listen to 2011 weekly!
December 19, 2013 4:01 pm
I 100% agree with everyone who’s posted here — the Top Albums list was always by far the most interesting feature of the Zeitgeist for me. Disappointed to see it missing this year.
December 20, 2013 9:34 am
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December 22, 2013 12:50 am
soo disappointed about the lack of top albums. I guess I will no longer be making my annual visits to hypem… Seriously that used to be one of my favourite times of the year, I am heart broken guys. Total fail!
December 22, 2013 1:34 pm
Woooow. Are you SERIOUS??? I love you guys and appreciate all the hard work but BRING BACK TOP ALBUMS!! Definitely the most interesting part of the Zeitgeist is now gone. How sad 🙁
December 26, 2013 4:26 am
Really disappointing that there are no top albums
January 1, 2014 4:48 am
Solid work but I feel like the top albums were always the highlight of the year end Zeitgeist. I’m really sad to see this not included this year. Since 2008, it was my annual guide for catching up on the albums that I somehow missed (and thus, spend more time on Hype Machine).
Bummer.
January 8, 2014 10:28 am
Hi, guys!
Have not looked thoroughly yet, but I can see why it is not essential for Hypem to compile top albums list – it is just not what the zine dedicated to. Hypem is about individual tracks, so the singles list is what is not interchangable. I am also among those people who has enjoyed previous lists and especially the art surrounding it, but I can easily live without another one (top albums list).
Good luck, Hypem! Follow your inspirations and you will never get lost!
January 13, 2014 11:43 am
dudes the top albums are almost always the same as the top artists—and judging from what Anthony said above, this year in particular almost completely overlapped. quit your boohooing and poohpoohing. also remember this is all free. Thanks hype machine
January 20, 2014 1:40 pm
Always enjoyed your mixes. But I am little disappointed as there are no top albums.
December 3, 2014 10:01 am
When is this years Zeitgeist coming out and top artist and albums of 2014?
December 8, 2014 10:38 pm