2013 Readers Poll: Your Top Picks Revealed

After a huge year of class music heard from the stereo and stage, you, the much-loved readers of The Music, have come back to us with your top picks from 2013, and it seems like we're pretty much on the same page - great minds thinking alike and all that. Your number one record was created by four likely lads from Sheffield, while a New Zealand teenager captured your hearts, as well as the rest of the world's. The Boss inspired you all, cinema took many to places unknown and plenty of horns were raised to the altar of metal. Readers, this is your yearly wrap-up.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Arctic Monkeys - AM.

1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Lorde - Pure Heroine
3. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
4. Queens Of The Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
5. Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost
6. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
7. Haim - Days Are Gone
8. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
10. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

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SONG OF THE YEAR

1. Lorde - Royals
2. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell - Get Lucky
3. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
4. Violent Soho - Covered In Chrome
5. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
6. Vance Joy - Riptide
7. James Blake - Retrograde
8. The Preatures - Is This How You Feel?
9. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
10. Haim - The Wire

LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR

Bruce Springsteen at Rod Laver Arena. Pic by Kane Hibberd.

1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Haim
5. Foals
6. Tame Impala
7. Muse
8. The Drones
9. Beyoncé
10. Blink-182

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Lorde. Pic by Cybele Malinowski.

1. Lorde
2. Arctic Monkeys
3. Flume
4. Haim
5. Daft Punk
6. Tame Impala
7. Vampire Weekend
8. Remi
9. Violent Soho
10. Arcade Fire