Rolling Stone誌が、今年ここまでのベスト・アルバム40枚を選出。以下がそのセレクションです。順位はない模様です。

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'

Rolling Stoneの掲載ページはこちら。
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/mid-year-report-the-best-albums-of-2012-so-far-20120709

以下に、他メディアがこれまで発表してきた「これまでベスト」を集めました。メディアによっては、発表時期が2ヶ月近くも違うものもありますので、単純比較はできません。

Stereogum編はこちら。
http://ro69.jp/blog/miyazaki/68214

SPIN編はこちら。
http://ro69.jp/blog/miyazaki/69197

NME「ベスト・トラック」編はこちら。
http://ro69.jp/blog/miyazaki/69394

NPR編はこちら。
http://ro69.jp/blog/miyazaki/69398

NME編はこちら。
http://ro69.jp/blog/miyazaki/67261