Billboard.com's Scores
- Music
For 825 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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16% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | The Complete Matrix Tapes [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Jackie |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 750 out of 825
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Mixed: 75 out of 825
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Negative: 0 out of 825
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The box's liner notes are a bit scant, but it's full of treats even for aficionados.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Amid synth-y disco dalliances ("Alive Tonight") and soul-funk workouts ("Your Girl"), she leaves room for snarling riffs on "Look What We've Become" and acoustic boom on "Empty Heart," reminiscent of Sheryl Crow's "Leaving Las Vegas."- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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The music is spacious, paranoid and sultry; the lyrics are suggestive and knotted.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Even in English, even without bachata, Royce hasn't lost what makes him special: his ability to emote, to deliver lyrics as though he believes them vehemently and make the listener do the same.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 12, 2015
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Despite its numerous flaws, Compton is still one of the most engaging listening experiences of the year.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 10, 2015
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Legend, like Gunplay’s professed diet, is a potent mix of uppers, downers and hallucinogens; it makes for a weird, and weirdly satisfying, trip.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 31, 2015
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On Yung Rich Nation, the band of brothers shows it’s reliable enough to deliver hits, but ambitious enough to rise to a challenge.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 31, 2015
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Stone is clearly still finding her sound and, if Water is any indication, herself, too.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 28, 2015
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The achingly good Something More Than Free, captures the mix of excitement and fear that comes when the sun rises on a new day.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 24, 2015
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The tunes are competently rendered, but that actually makes them worse: That these guys are selling out shows as what amounts to a cover band is the kind of thing you need to be super-baked to wrap your head around.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 21, 2015
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Produced by a handful of trusted Atlanta trap producers, DS2 is gothic, narcotic and full of overcast skies.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 21, 2015
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Monroe sings these songs, many of which she co-wrote, with exquisite, bruised sensitivity.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 21, 2015
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At this point, the Brothers are effectively historians, and the album's most thrilling moments are often references to their own past or inspirations.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 20, 2015
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Behind the dance bump, Communion is confessional synth-pop with a heart full of heavy feelings.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 6, 2015
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Dreams Worth More Than Money is surprisingly focused, presenting an uncomfortably lucid, non-pensive character study detailing the underside of the American Dream.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 2, 2015
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She's confident for a new artist, but this promising debut backs up her big words.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 26, 2015
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Finally, a deluxe version of their 1971 masterpiece Sticky Fingers that includes a bounty of concurrent outtakes and live material, along with a companion DVD/CD release of a live-for-TV performance.... [Sticky Fingers itself] is indisputably one of the greatest albums of 1970s, if not the entire the rock era. The end.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 25, 2015
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- Posted Jun 24, 2015
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- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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There's nothing on Wildheart to make one lose faith in Miguel's promise as a major creative and popular force of the decade, but neither is there enough to feel like he has satisfied his warring sides. Instead, it's a case of his sense of space still sharpening, and the hope for his full emergence, repping for a generation that won't accept outdated double binds, yet to come.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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Deja-Vu is at its best when it sounds like a victory lap, not a labored attempt to keep up.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 22, 2015
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- Posted Jun 22, 2015
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This is an even better album than her last, with more consistency and variety.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 16, 2015
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As an ode to nuptial bliss, the album is both convincing and surprisingly coquettish.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Lantern is a beautifully restrained--by HudMo standards, that is--concept album that mirrors a full day, yawning awake with palate-clearing drones and ending ecstatically in the wee hours of a club utopia.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 16, 2015
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The band hasn't lost its sense of wonder--it's just seeing the world through a more realistic lens.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 15, 2015
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Muse is one of the world's biggest rock bands, but for all its missionary zeal, Drones preaches to the converted.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 12, 2015
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The album lacks the obvious potential hits to guarantee that, although the moody, Jeremih-featuring single "Like Me" is easy to get lost in. The album does, however, strike a graceful balance between gritty roots and big-budget sheen.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 9, 2015
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Jamie xx is among other U.K. electronic-dance acts, such as Disclosure and Four Tet, that are tapping the genre's past to forge its future. But no one has nailed it quite like this.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 8, 2015
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On Everything Is 4, some songs give him newfound definition, but then others distract from it.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 8, 2015
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