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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Get ready for a set of convincing, honest music, on which the Colombian star often unabashedly professes her love for boyfriend Gerard Pique.- Billboard.com
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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With Supermodel, his goal is not to make you like him, but rather to give you a sense of what it's like to be him. He pulls it off, and he throws in plenty of hooks along the way.- Billboard.com
- Posted Mar 17, 2014
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- Posted Mar 11, 2014
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Lyrically, Louder is rather one-sided, as she often sings about the perils of relationships, over and over, in ways that we've all heard many times at this point. Still, it's a solid effort that shows she has promise as a bona fide pop artist.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 28, 2014
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The album is loaded with luscious orchestration, motivational mantras and playful sex metaphors. Its taught 10 tracks bring to mind the record Justin Timberlake could have made last year, if he had dared to leave anything on the cutting room floor.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 27, 2014
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While Lamar dazzles with precise storytelling, Q conjures attention with brusque physicality. Both MCs are aiming for different marks, and although Q's style is too unkempt to produce an album full of clean shots, his misses on Oxymoron are often just as compelling.- Billboard.com
- Posted Feb 26, 2014
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[Morello's] contributions feel inventive, versatile and natural, like an extension of the direction Springsteen was already moving in.... Aniello's production work definitely enhances and does not distract from or obscure the tracks.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jan 6, 2014
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Once the initial novelty and shock wears off of Beyoncé's impressive stealth-release feat, the brilliance and creative audacity of the album itself can sink in.- Billboard.com
- Posted Dec 13, 2013
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Britney Jean, her first album released in her thirties, is a subtle shift away from frantic bangers and into more forthright songwriting.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 26, 2013
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Midnight Memories, the third full-length from the "X Factor"-formed quintet, follows up on what worked best on last year's "Take Me Home," and tosses in some proficient new ideas to keep listeners eager for the band's continued evolution.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 25, 2013
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Coherently channeling R&B, techno, disco and rock music as a pop artist while discussing sex, drugs, lust, God, fame and creativity, Lady Gaga has offered fans her most sonically and lyrically diverse album to date.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 5, 2013
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For the most part, Lavigne's fifth full-length encapsulates everything worth loving about the 29-year-old's long-running artistry.- Billboard.com
- Posted Nov 4, 2013
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Clocking in at an hour and twenty-five minutes, Reflektor drags in parts, though it contains plenty of moments (most often in its uptempo, dynamic first half) that sound ready to breathe life into the middling state of commercial rock in 2013.- Billboard.com
- Posted Oct 28, 2013
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With a string of hit singles under her belt, Perry has aspired to create a multi-faceted full-length and has consummately succeeded.- Billboard.com
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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- Posted Oct 15, 2013
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Sometimes, the 20-year-old's vision needs to be adjusted, as on the manic French Montana collaboration "FU" and on "Someone Else," which feels like the album's hundredth dramatic breakup song and plays for nearly five minutes. But more often than not, Cyrus' daring attitude guides her to invention.- Billboard.com
- Posted Oct 1, 2013
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September has been a profoundly great month for new female vocalists in popular music, but Lorde is easily the most vocally striking and lyrically thought-provoking. Pure Heroine is honest and addictive.- Billboard.com
- Posted Sep 30, 2013
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He makes up for the lack of addictive anthems and playfulness with his impressionable stream of sentiments--our kryptonite, his superpower.- Billboard.com
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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This Is... Icona Pop, like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Kiss," may someday be viewed as a full-length that included one pop masterpiece, but that underscores the delectability of the treats Icona Pop has sprinkled around that triumph.- Billboard.com
- Posted Sep 19, 2013
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- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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It allows listeners to refamilairize themselves with the Weeknd's aesthetic, which was striking and singular to begin with.- Billboard.com
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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Ariana Grande's debut LP is a surprisingly varied affair for a 20-year-old Nickelodeon star with a devastatingly strong voice.- Billboard.com
- Posted Sep 5, 2013
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What follows is Doris, a slow (rarely rising above 70 bpm), introspective album where Earl Sweatshirt combats pressures when returning to a life of stardom after time spent at a Samoa-based boarding school for troubled youths.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 20, 2013
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Singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White brought in more instruments, added deeper textures and, in general, upped the intensity of the songwriting for their second effort.- Billboard.com
- Posted Aug 5, 2013
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The album finds the 36-year old singer trying to take advantage of his newfound spotlight by striving to become the full-fledged pop star he's never quite been.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 30, 2013
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What's left, then, is a collection of 11 shinily produced pop songs that find Gomez trying on a series of different personalities with her slight-yet-capable vocals.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 24, 2013
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Bareilles' new album was the result of unrest, but as its title suggests, she has positively embraced her dissatisfaction and subsequently grown as an artist.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jul 16, 2013
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The journey of its latest change has been bumpy, but by blending its storied past with the musical present, Queensrÿche's members prove the band as a whole is indeed greater than any one person.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 28, 2013
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Those looking for vintage soul sounds or even full-on raps from start to finish will be thrown several curves here. It’s an album with numerous emotional layers as well.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 17, 2013
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The brothers have tapped into the amorphous joy at the heart of dance music, and have peppered Settle's masterfully executed tracks with that feeling.- Billboard.com
- Posted Jun 5, 2013
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