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Poll results: Listeners pick their favorite albums of 2023

There was one overwhelming favorite album that topped this year's All Songs Considered listener poll, and it wasn't even close.

If nothing else, the season of list-making is a good gut-check: After another breakneck year during which tens of thousands of new albums dropped, which ones are still capturing our imaginations, moving us to tears or giving us life?

When we put the called, simply, . No shade of course to all the other favorites, but the trio featuring , and brought in more than twice the number of votes as the next closest contender, ' .

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