| 1 | The Algorithm | "floating point" | single | Djentronica. |
| 2 | t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 | "柔らかい唇" | Best of Dream Catalogue, 2814-2815 | Vaporwave is neither imaginary nor dead. |
| 3 | Betablock3r | "What You Wanted" | single | In 1988 this is what I bought 12" New Wave singles hoping to find on the back. |
| 4 | St. Lucia | "Do You Remember" | Matter | This is the chvrch where we dance. |
| 5 | Sivik | "Last Night" | single | Is it still a trap if you curl up cozily inside? |
| 6 | Avantasia | "Ghostlights" | Ghostlights (Bonus Version) | (Bat Out of Hell + Rage for Eden + Frozen) * power metal. |
| 7 | Primal Fear | "Angels of Mercy" | Rulebreaker (Deluxe Edition) | Yes, somebody still makes Heavy Metal records. |
| 8 | Serenity | "Follow Me" | Codex Atlanticus | Power-metal show-tunes. |
| 9 | Amon Amarth | "First Kill" | single | Leathery Viking-metal timelessness. |
| 10 | Dream Theater | "Our New World" | The Astonishing | The opposite of leathery, and at over 2 hours also nearly the opposite of timeless, this is basically Dream Theater's version of 2112 and Endless Forms Most Beautiful and maybe a few episodes of Star Wars. I'm going to at least try to listen to it. |
| 11 | School Of Seven Bells | "Ablaze" | single | Beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful and beyond hope. |
| 12 | POP ETC | "Please, Don't Forget Me" | Souvenir | I'm surprised there aren't more bands trying to capitalize on AWOLNATION's formula. |
| 13 | Foxes | "Wicked Love" | single | Big, Sia-ish epic pop. |
| 14 | Suuns | "Translate" | single | Fractured post-punk twang-math. |
| 15 | The Joy Formidable | "The Last Thing On My Mind" | single | Possibly there is now going to be blues-gaze. |
| 16 | Spektr | "Through the Darkness of Future Past" | The Art to Disappear | Cryptic distended distempered avant-garde corrosive-atmospheric black metal. |
| 17 | Sia | "Bird Set Free" | This Is Acting | This is what Adele would sound like if she were afraid of people but not technology or anything else. |
| 18 | Anja Nissen | "Never Alone" | single | Danish-Australian Voice-winning Eurovision-aspirant. |
| 19 | Joba | "Riparti da qui" | Sono qui per te | Italian pop-rock sounding more Latin than usual. |
| 20 | The Old Wind | "Wooden Scythe" | Råångest 3 | Strangled, staggering black doom. |
| 21 | Black Tusk | "God's on Vacation" | Pillars of Ash | Hammering black thrash. |
| 22 | Marit Larsen | "Faith & Science" | When The Morning Comes | Chiming Norwegian indie-folk-pop. |
| 23 | Monica Naranjo | "Perdida" | Lubna | Spanish pop-opera concept-epic. |
| 24 | Tancred | "Sell My Head" | single | Springy, neo-Blake-Babies-ish lo-fi jangle-punk. |
| 25 | Secret Stuff | "I Knew You so Briefly, You Dead Soap Dog" | This Is Fine 5 | Straining post-emo math-pop. |
| 26 | Brand X Music | "Serenity" | Chronos | Hypothetical theatrical. |
| 27 | The Crookes | "Roman Candle" | Lucky Ones | Wiry, anxious Brit-indie guitar-rock. |
| 28 | Puppet | "Vagabond" | Soft Spoken - EP | Wistful, yearning indie-pop shelled in game-core/cat-step body-armor. |
| 29 | Vinterblot | "Evoked by Light" | Realms of the Untold | Pounding Italian pagan black/death metal. |
| 30 | The Sound Bee HD | "Blood Rain" | Blood Rain | Cybergothic visual kei. |
| 31 | Walking On Cars | "Catch Me If You Can" | Everything This Way | Stompy Irish pop-rock like Little Green Cars imagining dragons. |
| 32 | SKIES | "Drone" | Drone +2 | Beepy UK alt-synth-rock. |
| 33 | Dismissed | "Pridewave" | Pridewave +3 | Gothenburg jazz-punk like a lost Joe Jackson glam era. |
| 34 | New Arcades | "Visions" | We Had It All for Just a Moment 5 | Retro-synth aurora-shimmer. |
| 35 | Sebastián Yepes | "Si Aún Te Queda el Amor" | single | Ex-singer of Colombian Latin-rock band Sanalejo goes full arena-pop. |
| 36 | Raubtier | "Brännmärkt" | single | Stentorian, German-sounding Swedish industrial rock. |
| 37 | Turbostaat | "Ruperts Gruen" | Abalonia | Pungent German indie post-punk. |
| 38 | Gamze | "Fanatik" | Fanatik | Mech-shiny Turkish crossover dance-pop. |
| 39 | Пропаганда | "Наша Песня" | single | Coy Russian t.A.T.u./Shampoo doll-pop trio (whose name translates as Propaganda, which isn't going to help anything). |
| 40 | Teksti-TV 666 | "Silmät kiinni ja kädet ristiin" | single | Bleary Finnish street-punk. |
| 41 | Runrig | "Onar" | The Story | The 14th and likely final album by the greatest ever rock band from the Isle of Skye. |