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Miranda Lambert Makes Multiple Year And Decade End Best Lists

Miranda Lambert is wrapping up 2019 with a bunch of year’s- and decade’s-best accolades rolling in from multiple media outlets. Lambert’s latest album Wildcard had scored several high marks by…

Miranda Lambert Makes Multiple Year End Best Lists
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Miranda Lambert is wrapping up 2019 with a bunch of year’s- and decade’s-best accolades rolling in from multiple media outlets.

Lambert’s latest album Wildcard had scored several high marks by critics at Variety, GQ, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Slate, Stereogum, Paste, Taste of Country, Sounds Like Nashville, The Boot, Saving Country Music, That Nashville Sound, and PopCrush. Album cuts “Mess With My Head” and “Locomotive,” as well as GRAMMY Award-nominated single “It All Comes Out in the Wash” and new radio single “Bluebird,” were named amongst 2019’s most elite by the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Esquire.

Below is a list of her kudos for her album Wildcard:

The Best Albums of 2019 – Variety

21 of Our Favorite Albums That Made 2019 – GQ

The 50 Best Albums of 2019 – Billboard

40 Best Country and Americana Albums 2019 – Rolling Stone

The Best Albums of 2019 – Slate

The 50 Best Albums of 2019 – Stereogum

10 Best Country Albums of 2019 – Stereogum

The 20 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2019 – Paste

10 Best Country Albums of 2019 – Taste of Country

21 Best Albums of 2019 – Sounds Like Nashville

Top Country and Americana Albums of 2019 – The Boot

The Best Mainstream Country Albums of 2019 – Saving Country Music

Best Albums of 2019 – That Nashville Sound

Best Albums of 2019 – PopCrush

54 Best Songs of 2019 (“Locomotive”) – New York Times

50 Best songs of 2019 (“Mess With My Head”) – Rolling Stone

25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019 (“Bluebird”) – Rolling Stone

The Best Songs of 2019 (“Mess With My Head”) – Esquire

100 Favorite Songs of 2019 (“Locomotive”) – Stereogum

20 Best Singles of 2019 (“It All Comes Out in the Wash”) – Sounds Like Nashville

Top 10 Country and Americana Songs of 2019 (“Bluebird”) – The Boot

Lambert also made several lists for best of the decade:

The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s (The Weight of These Wings) – TIME

25 Best Country Albums of the 2010s (Four The Record) – Billboard

100 Best Albums of the 2010s (Platinum, The Weight of These Wings) – Rolling Stone

25 Essential Nashville Albums of the 2010s (Four The Record) – Tennessean

30 Best Country Albums of the 2010s (The Weight of These Wings) – Paste

200 Best Albums of the 2010s (The Weight of These Wings) – Pitchfork

Best Albums of the 2010s (Platinum) – Uproxx

35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s (“The House That Built Me”) – Billboard

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