De Sounds top 50 wordt samengesteld uit de persoonlijke lijstjes van het Sounds-team en mede-muziekliefhebbers.
1. Low - Hey What
2. The War on Drugs - I don't live here anymore
3. The Black Keys - Delta cream
4. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
5. Dry Cleaning 0 New long leg
6. Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises
7. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise the roof
8. John Hiatt & The Jerry Douglas Band - Leftover feelings
9. Weather Station - Ignorance
10. Mdou Moctar - Afrique victime
11. Little Simz - Sometimes I might be introvert
12. The Felice Brothers - From dreams to dust
13. Black Country New Road - For the first time
14. James McMurtry - The jorses and the hounds
15. Cassandra Jenkins - An overview phenomenal nature
16. Liminanas & Laurant Garnier - De Pelicula
17. Allison Russel - Outside child
18. John R. Miller - Depreciated
19. Steven Wilson - The future bites
20. Chris Eckman - Where the spirits rests
21. Sons of Kemet - Black to the future
22. Los Lobos - Native sons
23. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Layla revisited
24. Margo Cilker - Pohorville
25. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo de Augustine - A beginner's mind
26. Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou
27. Sleaford Mods - Spare ribs
28. Idles - Crawler
29. Endless Boogie - Admonitions
30. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for life
31. Soen - Imperial
32. The Coral - Coral island
33. Gov't Mule - Heavy load blues
34. Greentea Peng - Man made
35. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to me
36. Manchester Orchestra - The million masks of god
37. Steve Earle & The Dukes - J.T.
38. TV Priest - Uppers
39. Big Big Train - Common ground
40. Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak. - An evening with silk sonic
41. Justin Adams & Mauro Durante - Still moving
42. Viagra Boys - Welfare jazz
43. The Tea Party - Blood moon rising
44. Billie Eilish - Happier than ever
45. Lael Neale - Acquainted with night
46. Squid - Bright green field
47. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Uncommon weather
48. The Villagers - Fever dreams
49. Still Corners - The last exit
50. Soup - Visions
Big Red Machine - How long do you think it's gonna last
Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow