English Teacher, Bill Ryder-Jones and Beyoncé are 2024’s best rated albums so far – according to Metacritic

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English Teacher, Bill Ryder-Jones and Beyoncé are 2024’s best-rated albums so far – according to Metacritic.Metacritic aggregates reviews of TV, film, books and music and then gives them an average score.

According to their About Us page, the review-aggregator site curates a “diverse group of highly respected critics and assigns scores to their reviews”.

They then take “the weighted average of those scores”, which results in their “Metascore.”The website has shared its current list of best-rated albums so far for 2024, with Beyoncé’s country album ‘Cowboy Carter’ taking the lead spot.

In a five-star review of the LP, NME wrote: “It’s an undeniable thrill to see [Beyoncé] swing so big on a project that dares her to be so intimate and vocal-focused.”Bill Ryder-Jones’ fifth studio album ‘Iechyd Da’ follows close behind Queen Bey, earning the Number Two spot on the list.