NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Miranda Lambert and trio Pistol Annies (Lambert, Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley) are wrapping a whirlwind 2019 with year’s- and decade’s-best accolades rolling in from multiple media outlets.
Lambert’s latest album Wildcard is lauded as one of the year’s best by critics at Variety, GQ, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Slate, Stereogum, Sounds Like Nashville, The Boot, Saving Country Music, That Nashville Sound, and PopCrush. Album cuts “Mess With My Head” and “Locomotive,” as well as GRAMMY Award-nominated single “It All Comes Out in the Wash” and new radio single “Bluebird,” were named amongst 2019’s most elite by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Stereogum, Sounds Like Nashville, and The Boot. The “country-rock masterpiece” (Rolling Stone) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in November, making Lambert one of only two artists to have her first seven albums debut at the chart’s pinnacle.
Proving why she is “the most riveting country star of her generation” (NPR), several of Lambert’s previous works were named the best of the 2010s, including 2011’s Platinum-certified Four The Record; 2014’s GRAMMY, CMA, and ACM Award-winning Platinum; and 2016’s Platinum-certified double album The Weight of These Wings. Triple-Platinum single “The House That Built Me” was named ACM Song of the Decade, and Billboard agreed, dubbing it the Best Country Song of the 2010s.
Meanwhile, Pistol Annies’ GRAMMY Award-nominated 2018 album Interstate Gospel was included on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Albums of the 2010s and Paste’s 30 Best Country Albums of the 2010s, with “Got My Name Changed Back” included in Billboard’s 35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s. The Annies’ Gold-certified debut album, Hell on Heels, was also named to Billboard’s 25 Best Country Albums of the 2010s and Tennessean’s 25 Essential Nashville Albums of the 2010s rankings.
WILDCARD
The Best Albums of 2019 – Variety
21 of Our Favorite Albums That Made 2019 – GQ
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 – Billboard
40 Best Country and Americana Albums 2019 – Rolling Stone
The Best Albums of 2019 – Slate
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 – Stereogum
10 Best Country Albums of 2019 – Stereogum
The 20 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2019 – Paste
10 Best Country Albums of 2019 – Taste of Country
21 Best Albums of 2019 – Sounds Like Nashville
Top Country and Americana Albums of 2019 – The Boot
The Best Mainstream Country Albums of 2019 – Saving Country Music
Best Albums of 2019 – That Nashville Sound
Best Albums of 2019 – PopCrush
54 Best Songs of 2019 (“Locomotive”) – New York Times
50 Best songs of 2019 (“Mess With My Head”) – Rolling Stone
25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019 (“Bluebird”) – Rolling Stone
The Best Songs of 2019 (“Mess With My Head”) – Esquire
100 Favorite Songs of 2019 (“Locomotive”) – Stereogum
20 Best Singles of 2019 (“It All Comes Out in the Wash”) – Sounds Like Nashville
Top 10 Country and Americana Songs of 2019 (“Bluebird”) – The Boot
MIRANDA LAMBERT DECADE’S BEST
The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s (The Weight of These Wings) – TIME
25 Best Country Albums of the 2010s (Four The Record) – Billboard
100 Best Albums of the 2010s (Platinum, The Weight of These Wings) – Rolling Stone
25 Essential Nashville Albums of the 2010s (Four The Record) – Tennessean
30 Best Country Albums of the 2010s (The Weight of These Wings) – Paste
200 Best Albums of the 2010s (The Weight of These Wings) – Pitchfork
Best Albums of the 2010s (Platinum) – Uproxx
35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s (“The House That Built Me”) – Billboard
PISTOL ANNIES
100 Best Albums of the 2010s (Interstate Gospel) – Rolling Stone
25 Best Country Albums of the 2010s (Hell on Heels) – Billboard
25 Essential Nashville Albums of the 2010s (Hell on Heels) – Tennessean
30 Best Country Albums of the 2010s (Interstate Gospel) – Paste
35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s (“Got My Name Changed Back”) – Billboard
Lambert will welcome 2020 by kicking off her Wildcard tour with special guests Cody Johnson and LANCO.