2012: Top Twenty-five Tracks

1. Japandroids:  The House that Heaven Built
2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Thrift Shop
3. the Lumineers: Ho Hey
4. Alabama Shakes: Hold On
5. Josh Ritter: Joy to You Baby
6. Kendrick Lamar: Backseat Freestyle
7. First Aid Kit: Emmylou
8. Fiona Apple: Werewolf
9. Nicki Minaj/ David Guetta: Turn Me On
10. Frank Ocean: Bad Religion
11. Of Monsters & Men: Little Talks
12. Cloud Nothing: Stay Useless
13. Frightened Rabbit: State Hospital
14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Same Love
15. Fun.: Some Nights
16. Passion Pit: Carried Away
17. The Gaslight Anthem: "45"
18. Chairlift: I Belong In Your Arms
19. Twin Shadow: Five Seconds
20. Ellie Goulding: Figure 8
21. Youngblood Hawke: We Come Running
22. Band of Horses: Knock Knock
23. Grizzly Bear: Yet Again
24. Tegan & Sara: Closer
25. Kelly Clarkson: Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

2012: Top Twenty-five Albums

1. Grizzly Bear: Shields
2. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel is Wiser...
3. Japandroids: Celebration Rock
4. the Lumineers: the Lumineers
5. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: the Heist
6. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
7. Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d City
8. Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls
9. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
10. Twin Shadow: Confess
11. Dirty Projectors: Swing Low Magellan
12. Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
13. Sigur Ros: Valtari
14. Purity Ring: Shrines
15. First Aid Kit: Lion's Roar
16. Fun.: Some Nights
17. Passion Pit: Gossamer
18. The xx: Coexist
19. Beach House: Bloom
20. the Avett Brothers: the Carpenter
21. Wild Nothing: Nocturne
22. the Walkmen: Heaven
23. Chairlift: Something
24. the Gaslight Anthem: Handwritten
25. Of Monsters & Men: My Head is an Animal