In an episode of the Pitchfork Review podcast back in 2023, we asked Olivia Rodrigo a big question: What’s your Perfect 10 album? (She went with Alanis Morissette’s colossal Jagged Little Pill.) Since then, we’ve posed the same, impossible question to Usher, PinkPantheress, Mariah Carey, Destroyer, billy woods, Bladee, and hundreds of other artists. They’ve selected time-stopping classics, bargain bin finds, blog era oddities, regional mixtapes. In an effort to catalog these recs in a single, coherent place on the website, here are 240 of our favorite Perfect 10s.
