The Top 89 is The Current’s annual countdown of the best music of the year, as voted by our listeners! Find our archive of staff lists and year-end categories here.

On New Year's Day (Jan. 1, 2023) we counted down this year's Top 89 songs, as voted by you! 

What are the top 25 songs by The 1975? We compiled a list of the best songs from their five studio albums, including the recently released Being Funny In a Foreign Language, as voted on by our listeners.

Welcome to this year's 893 Essential Albums of all time countdown! The year 2016 was the last time we compiled this list with your help, but so many powerful releases have come out in the intervening six years — albums that have pushed artistic boundaries and have flipped the script on the music industry.

It’s time to vote! Each day, from 8 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., we’ll open a new matchup for voting every half hour between Tuesday, March 15, and Friday, March 18. At the end of the day on Friday, we’ll announce the top album of 1992.

We counted down this year's Top 89 songs, as voted by you! 

Thank you for taking the time to thoughtfully consider and then submit your list of your favorite debut albums of all time. It's from all those listener lists like yours that we have tabulated the results and compiled this, the 893 Essential Debut Albums, as chosen by you.

We counted down this year's Top 89 songs, as voted by you! 

Right now, all music is essential. It's helping us power through this uncertain time while helping us feel connected. We asked you to share the songs that make you feel connected, and you responded! 

There's no official record of The Current's Top songs from 2005, but as we look at Current15 with a trip through our collective history, Program Director Jim McGuinn provides our best estimate.