We realize it’s a bit early to sum up 2018 — after all, we’ve got half a week to go and it was just Monday when Kevin Spacey made the worst decision of, well, ever.
But barring other boneheaded ideas by disgraced national figures, we’re ready to call it a year.
Herein: 85 lists from around the web that sum up the year that was.
Most of it good! The pop culture highs, some breathtaking photography, roundups of fantastic beers, memes and SUVs.
And, of course, the lows … where you better believe Facebook made its mark.
POP CULTURE
The Best Movie Posters of 2018
The 10 Best Music Videos of 2018
The Quietus Albums of the Year (congrats…Gazelle Twin?)
Spotify’s Top Songs, Artists, Playlists, and Podcasts of 2018
The Best Bits from 2018’s Best Songs
InsideHook’s 80 Best Songs (and 18 Best Albums) of 2018
The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018
The 25 Best Films of 2018: A Video Countdown
Pitchfork’s Top 100 Songs of 2018
The 12 Best Record Sleeves of 2018
The 11 Best Documentaries of 2018
The Best Dressed Celebrities of 2018
The Ringer’s 2018 TV Superlatives
The Best Film Soundtracks of 2018
What Your Favorite Album of 2018 Says About You (“Greta Van Fleet , Anthem of the Peaceful Army: You clicked away when you saw the emojis, because you hate emojis, and also music made after 1980.”)
(Ed. note: Special Bonus: Year-End Lists: All the Critics’ “Best Of” Lists, in One Place)
TECH, CARS, GEAR
The 24 Coolest Gadgets of 2018
The 2018 New York Times Good Tech Awards
10 Top Automotive Stories of 2018
The 35 Top Motorcycles of 2018
The 100 Greatest Innovations of 2018
MotorTrend’s Best Trucks, Cars and SUVs
PHOTOGRAPHY
Serious Eats: Favorite Images of 2018
The Best Beltway Photos of 2018
67 of the Best Travel Photos of 2018
National Geographic’s Best Photos of 2018
The New York Times Year in Pictures
MISCELLANEA
NYC’s Top 10 Apartment Sales of 2018 ($74 million for a duplex?)
Who Had the Most Average 2018?
FiveThirtyEight’s “What I Got Wrong in 2018”
The Best News Bloopers of 2018
The Best Political Writing of 2018
The Weirdest Places Curbed Found Scooters in 2018
The 19 Best and Worst Airline Moments of 2018
The 25 Best-Dressed Men of 2018
Statistics of the Year (#1: 90.5% of plastic waste has never been recycled)
Skift’s 2018 Innovators in Travel, Hospitality and Aviation
Best of the Best Beers of 2018
The Most Popular Items Ordered on Amazon Prime
The Best Beer Label Designs of 2018
52 Things I Learned in 2018 (#4 35% of Rwanda’s national blood supply outside the capital city is now delivered by drone)
4 Things That Got Better in 2018
The 10 Best Cocktail Books of 2018
The Ringer’s 45 Best Sports Moments in 2018
NSFW
What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums in 2018? (“Leg of telescope”… really, people?)
THE WORST
Top 10 Betting Bad Beats of 2018
The 5 Worst Media Fails of 2018
33 Media Corrections from 2018
FactCheck.Org’s Whoppers of 2018
The Worst New TV Shows of 2018, According to Metacritic
The Top 18 Media Grinches of 2018
The Worst Things on the Internet in 2018
11 Worst Business Name Changes of 2018
The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2018
Esquire’s 2018 Dubious Achievement Awards
The 21 (and Counting) Worst Facebook Scandals of 2018
The Best of 2018’s Worst Restaurant Reviews
The Best and Worst Airports of 2018
A LOOK AHEAD
The Economist’s The World in 2019
The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019
Fire, Floods and Famine: The Pessimist’s Guide to 2019
10 New TV Shows to Obsess Over in 2019
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