What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …
I ranked my singles of the year at the end of 2007, but I didn’t rank my albums. So the first albums and singles lists are a December 2024 re-ranking of both of these lists, but I’ve also included the original 2007 singles list too.
| | Top albums of 2007 |
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| 1 | Radiohead | In Rainbows |
| 2 | Art Brut | It's A Bit Complicated |
| 3 | Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob |
| 4 | Maximo Park | Our Earthly Pleasures |
| 5 | Cerys Matthews | Awyren = Aeroplane |
| 6 | Abdoujaparov | Cycle Riot History Gang |
| 7 | Bloc Party | A Weekend In The City |
| 8 | Good The Bad And The Queen | The Good, The Bad And The Queen |
| 9 | New Young Pony Club | Fantastic Playroom |
| 10 | They Might Be Giants | The Else |
| 11 | S*M*A*S*H | Icon |
| 12 | Hybrasil | The Monkey Pole |
| 13 | Elíza | Empire Fall |
| 14 | Super Furry Animals | Hey Venus! |
| 15 | Robocop Kraus | Blunders And Mistakes |
| 16 | Rulers Of The Planet | Disco Boogie For Death Rockers |
| 17 | Marc Almond | Stardom Road |
| 18 | Fields | Everything Last Winter |
| 19 | Fighting Cocks | Music For Lapdancers |
| 20 | Absent Kid | Misadventure |
| 21 | Hjaltalin | Sleepdrunk Seasons |
| 22 | Athlete | Beyond the Neighbourhood |
| 23 | Mark Ronson | Version |
| 24 | Rakes | Ten New Messages |
| 25 | The Bird and the Bee | The Bird and the Bee |
| 26 | Client | Heartland |
| 27 | Jakobínarína | The First Crusade |
| 28 | Pigeon Detectives | Wait For Me |
| 29 | Mika | Life In Cartoon Motion |
| 30 | Ace Out | Ace Out |
| 31 | Dead 60s | Time To Take Sides |
| 32 | Cymbient | Out On The Waves |
| 33 | Electrelane | No Shouts No Calls |
| 34 | PJ Harvey | White Chalk |
| 35 | Interpol | Our Love To Admire |
| 36 | Minus The Bear | Planet Of Ice |
| 37 | múm | Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy |
| 38 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible |
| 39 | Amiina | Kurr |
| 40 | Editors | An End Has A Start |
| 41 | Sohodolls | Ribbed Music For The Numb Generation |
| 42 | Fish | 13th Star |
| 43 | Andrew Pekler | Cue |
| 44 | Mumm-Ra | These Things Move In Threes |
| 45 | Kate Nash | Made Of Bricks |
| 46 | Björk | Volta |
| 47 | Spoon | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| 48 | AloneMe | Sketch |
| 49 | Kula Shaker | Strangefolk |
| 50 | Eskimo Disco | Robots And Laptop Dancers Make Good Friends |
| 51 | Untitled Musical Project | Untitled Musical Project |
| 52 | Bat For Lashes | Fur and Gold |
| 53 | Shins | Wincing The Night Away |
| 54 | Maps | We Can Create |
| 55 | Shout Out Louds | Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills |
| 56 | Twang | Love It When I Feel Like This |
| 57 | Band Of Horses | Cease To Begin |
| 58 | iLiKETRAiNS | Elegies To Lessons Learnt |
| 59 | Freezepop | Future Future Future Perfect |
| 60 | Arctic Monkeys | Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| 61 | Babyshambles | Shotter's Nation |
| 62 | Tunng | Good Arrows |
| 63 | Marillion | Somewhere Else |
| 64 | Of Montreal | Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? |
| 65 | Gui Boratto | Chromophobia |
| 66 | Von Südenfed | Tromatic Reflexxions |
| 67 | Kings Of Leon | Because Of The Times |
| 68 | White Stripes | Icky Thump |
| | Top tracks of 2007 |
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| 1 | Maximo Park | Our Velocity |
| 2 | Art Brut | St Pauli |
| 3 | New Young Pony Club | The Bomb |
| 4 | Blood Red Shoes | It's Getting Boring By The Sea |
| 5 | James Yuill | This Sweet Love |
| 6 | Hot Puppies | King Of England |
| 7 | Jenny Owen Youngs | Hot In Herre |
| 8 | Manic Street Preachers | Your Love Alone Is Not Enough |
| 9 | Art Brut | Direct Hit |
| 10 | Absent Kid | Retaliate First |
| 11 | Bloc Party | Flux |
| 12 | Sara Bareilles | Love Song |
| 13 | Charlatans | My Beautiful Friend |
| 14 | Catherine Feeny | Mr Blue |
| 15 | Chumbawamba | Add Me |
| 16 | Blood Red Shoes | I Wish I Was Someone Better |
| 17 | Cribs | Our Bovine Public |
| 18 | Twang | Wide Awake |
| 19 | Maximo Park | Girls Who Play Guitars |
| 20 | Detektivbyrån | Nattoppet |
| 21 | Kula Shaker | Drink Tea For The Love Of God |
| 22 | Art Brut | Blame It On The Trains |
| 23 | Radiohead | Jigsaw Falling Into Place |
| 24 | Sultans of Ping FC | Girlwatchin' |
| 25 | Julian Cope | You Got A Problem With Me |
| 26 | Young Knives | Terra Firma |
| 27 | Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip | Thou Shalt Always Kill (US Radio Edit) |
| 28 | Sea Power | Atom |
| 29 | CSS | Off The Hook |
| 30 | Ash | You Can't Have It All |
| 31 | S*M*A*S*H | All By Myself |
| 32 | Ida Maria | Oh My God |
| 33 | Baddies | Battleships |
| 34 | Radiohead | Reckoner |
| 35 | Fratellis | Baby Fratelli |
| 36 | Los Campesinos | You! Me! Dancing! |
| 37 | Sultans of Ping FC | Ladybug Boy |
| 38 | Good Shoes | Morden |
| 39 | Kaiser Chiefs | Ruby |
| 40 | They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them | The Unstoppable Kite |
| 41 | Charlotte Hatherley | Behave |
| 42 | Good Shoes | Never Meant To Hurt You |
| 43 | Cerys Matthews | Awyrennau |
| 44 | Dead 60s | Stand Up |
| 45 | Mark Ronson | Apply Some Pressure (Feat. Paul Smith) |
| 46 | Good The Bad And The Queen | Herculean |
| 47 | Hybrasil | San Fran |
| 48 | Pigeon Detectives | I'm Not Sorry |
| 49 | Bat For Lashes | What's A Girl To Do |
| 50 | S*M*A*S*H | Morphine For The Pain |
| 51 | Jesca Hoop | Havoc In Heaven |
| 52 | Gallon Drunk | Grand Union Canal |
| 53 | Charlatans | You Cross My Path |
| 54 | múm | A Little Bit, Sometimes |
| 55 | Elíza | Change My Name |
| 56 | Fields | Charming The Flames |
| 57 | Maccabees | Precious Time |
| 58 | Sultans of Ping FC | Kick That Dirty Job |
| 59 | Mark Ronson | God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Feat. The Daptone Horns) |
| 60 | iDou | Rusted Guns Of Milan |
| 61 | Metric | Empty |
| 62 | The Bird and the Bee | Again & Again |
| 63 | Human Knives | Loughborough Suicide |
| 64 | Clean George IV | Wasted On The Radio |
| 65 | Operator Please | Leave It Alone (Radio Edit) |
| 66 | Ace Out | She Looks For Something New |
| 67 | Hot Club De Paris | Straight To Hell |
| 68 | Jakobínarína | His Lyrics Are Disastrous |
| 69 | Metronomy | Hear To Wear |
| 70 | Fighting Cocks | The Little Goats' Big Night Out |
| 71 | Frank and Walters | Teenage Kicks |
| 72 | Hives | Tick Tick Boom |
| 73 | Silversun Pickups | Lazy Eye |
| 74 | Idlewild | No Emotion |
| 75 | Hoosiers | Goodbye Mr A |
| 76 | Late Of The Pier | Bathroom Gurgle (radio edit) |
| 77 | Sohodolls | Right and Right Again |
| 78 | Tim Ten Yen | Girl Number One |
| 79 | Fast Computers | Sweden Hasn't Changed, You Have |
| 80 | Marc Almond | Kitsch |
| 81 | King Creosote | You've No Clue Do You |
| 82 | Beatsteaks | Jane Becomes Insane |
| 83 | 12 Stone Toddler | Candles On The Cake |
| 84 | Battant | Kevin (1989) |
| | Original chart - top tracks of 2007 |
| |
| 1 | Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip | Thou Shalt Always Kill |
| 2 | Radiohead | Jigsaw Falling Into Place |
| 3 | Young Knives | Terra Firma |
| 4 | New Young Pony Club | The Bomb |
| 5 | Blood Red Shoes | It's Getting Boring By The Sea |
| 6 | Bloc Party | Flux |
| 7 | Sultans of Ping | Girlwatchin' |
| 8 | Baddies | Battleships |
| 9 | Twang | Wide Awake |
| 10 | Manic Street Preachers feat Nina Persson | Your Love Alone Is Not Enough |
| 11 | Maximo Park | Our Velocity |
| 12 | Metronomy | Hear To Wear |
| 13 | Turin Brakes | Stalker |
| 14 | Pigeon Detectives | I'm Not Sorry |
| 15 | Art Brut | St Pauli |
| 16 | Dead 60s | Stand Up |
| 17 | Detektivbyrån | Nattöppet |
| 18 | They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them | The Unstoppable Kite |
| 19 | Mike Flowers Pops | Talk |
| 20 | Operator Please | Leave It Alone |
| 21 | Long Blondes | Giddy Stratospheres |
| 22 | múm | A Little Bit, Sometimes |
| 23 | Hot Puppies | King Of England |
| 24 | James Yuill | This Sweet Love |
| 25 | Cerys Matthews | Awyrennau |
| 26 | Pony Up | The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die) |
| 27 | Bat For Lashes | What's A Girl To Do |
| 28 | Mark Ronson | God Put A Smile Upon Your Face |
| 29 | British Sea Power | Atom |
| 30 | Chumbawamba | Add Me |
| 31 | Tunng | Bullets |
| 32 | Asobi Seksu | Thursday |
| 33 | Koopa | The Crash |
| 34 | Untitled Musical Project | The People Versus Michael Miller |
| 35 | Bird and the Bee | Again & Again |
| 36 | Fields | Charming The Flames |
| 37 | Fighting Cocks | The Little Goats' Big Night Out |
| 38 | Minus the Bear | Knights |
| 39 | Editors | The Racing Rats |
| 40 | New Young Pony Club | Get Lucky |
| 41 | Ash | You Can't Have It All |
| 42 | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Catch You |
| 43 | Hives | Tick Tick Boom |
| 44 | Jakobinarina | His Lyrics Are Disastrous |
| 45 | Babyshambles | Delivery |
| 46 | Twang | Either Way |
| 47 | Fratellis | Baby Fratelli |
| 48 | Kate Nash | Foundations |
| 49 | Marc Almond | Kitsch |
| 50 | Art Brut | Direct Hit |
| 51 | Eliza | Change My Name |
| 52 | Tim Ten Yen | Girl Number One |
| 53 | Dinosaur Jr | Crumble |
| 54 | Kaiser Chiefs | The Angry Mob |
| 55 | Milk Kan | Here You Come Again And Again |
| 56 | Silversun Pickups | Lazy Eye |
| 57 | Idlewild | No Emotion |
| 58 | Julian Cope | You Got A Problem With Me |
| 59 | Kaiser Chiefs | Ruby |
| 60 | Clean George IV | Wasted On The Radio |
| 61 | Client | Drive |
| 62 | iLiKETRAiNS | The Deception |
| 63 | Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad | Genni's Song |
| 64 | Gallon Drunk | Grand Union Canal |
| 65 | We Start Fires | Play You |
| 66 | Charlatans | You Cross My Path |
| 67 | Maccabees | Precious Time |
| 68 | Beatsteaks | Jane Becomes Insane |
| 69 | Republic Of Heaven | West Country Witch |
| 70 | Cribs | Our Bovine Public |
| 71 | Feist | 1234 |
| 72 | Good Shoes | Never Meant To Hurt You |
| 73 | Kate Nash | Mouthwash |
| 74 | Maximo Park | Girls Who Play Guitars |
| 75 | Brakes | Beatific Visions |
| 76 | Bees | Who Cares What The Question Is |
| 77 | Editors | The End Has A Start |
| 78 | Hoosiers | Goodbye Mr A |
| 79 | Kat Frankie | The Tops |
| 80 | Reverend & The Makers | He Said He Loved Me |
| 81 | Robocop Kraus | Waiting Above The Ocean |
| 82 | Wojtek Godzisz | The Moon And The Yew Tree |
| 83 | Soft Hearted Scientists | Eyes |
| 84 | Rakes | When Tom Cruise Cries |
| 85 | Electric Soft Parade | Appropriate Ending |
| 86 | Pigeon Detectives | Take Her Back |
| 87 | Sohodolls | Right And Right Again |
| 88 | Headlines | Takeover |
| 89 | Meat Puppets | Disappear |
| 90 | MJ Hibbett | My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once |
| 91 | Bjork | Earth Intruders |
| 92 | Fast Computers | Sweden Hasn't Changed, You Have |
| 93 | Polly Scattergood | Nitrogen Pink |
| 94 | Liars | Plaster Casts Of Everything |
| 95 | Cymbient | Dress The Salad |
| 96 | Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip | The Beat That My Heart Skipped |
| 97 | Envelopes | Life On The Beach |
| 98 | Belisha | Who's A Clever Boy |
| 99 | 12 Stone Toddler | Candles On The Cake |
| 100 | Battant | Kevin (1989) |
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