Fyrri árslistaþáttur Straums yfir 30 bestu plötur ársins er á dagskrá á X-inu 977 klukkan 23:00 í kvöld. Farið verður yfir 30. til 16. sæti í kvöld og næstu viku verður svo farið yfir 15. til 1. sæti. Hér fyrir neðan er hægt að sjá lista yfir plötur ársins í Straumi fyrir árin 2012, 2011, 2010 og 2009.
2012:
1) ADVANCE BASE – A SHUT-IN’S PRAYER
2) FRANK OCEAN – CHANNEL ORANGE
3) FIRST AID KIT – THE LION’S ROAR
4) JAPANDROIDS – CELEBRATION ROCK
5) TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS – TROUBLE
6) DIRTY PROJECTORS – SWING LO MAGELLAN
7) GRIMES – VISIONS
8) WOODS – BEND BEYOND
9) TAME IMPALA – LONERISM
10) CRYSTAL CASTLES – (III)
11) LINDSTRØM – SMALHANS
12) M. WARD – A WASTELAND COMPANION
13) JESSIE WARE – DEVOTION
14) POOLSIDE – PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
15) THE WALKMEN – HEAVEN
16) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
17) Jack White – Blunderbuss
18) Django Django – Django Django
19) Phédre – Phédre
20) Chromatics – Kill For Love
21) Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
22) Beach House – Bloom
23) Wild Nothing – Nocturne
24) The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea
25) Matthew Dear – Beams
26) Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
27) DIIV – Oshin
28) Purity Ring – Shrines
29) A.C. Newman – Shut Down The Streets
30) The Shins – Port Of Morrow
2011.
1) Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
2) Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation
3) Cults – Cults
4) Real Estate – Days
5) John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
6) Times New Viking – Dancer Equired
7) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic
8) M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
9) Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
10) Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
11) Wise Blood – These Wings
12) Ducktails – Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
13) I Break Horses – Hearts
14) SBTRKT – SBTRKT
15) The Strokes – Angles
16) Beirut – The Rip Tide
17) Seapony – Go With Me
18) Neon Indian – Era Extrana
19) Atlas Sound – Parallax
20) Ford & Lopatin – Channel Pressure
21) Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
22) The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
23) Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer
24) Crystal Stilts – In Love With the Oblivion
25) Iceage – New Brigade
26) Tyler The Creator – Goblin
27) Panda Bear – Tomboy
28) Vivian Girls – Share The Joy
29) St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
30) tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
2010:
1) Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
2) Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
3) Vampire Weekend – Contra
4) Best Coast – Crazy For You
5 ) No Age – Everything In Between
6) guards – guards ep
7) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
8) Caribou – Swim
9) Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
10) Wild Nothing – Gemini
11) Wavves – King Of The Beach
12) Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles II
13) Sleigh Bells – Treats
14) Tokyo Police Club – Champ
15) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
16) Beach House – Teen Dream
17) Broken Bells – Broken Bells
18) Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
19) The Walkmen – Lisbon
20) Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring
21) Love Is All – Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
22) The Soft Pack – The Soft Pack
23) The Morning Benders – Big Echo
24) MGMT – Congratulation
25) Magic Kids – Memphis
2009:
1) Japandroids – Post Nothing
2) The xx – xx
3) Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
5) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6) Girls – Album
7) Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
8) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
9) M. Ward – Hold Time
10) Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young
11) Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
12) Atlas Sound – Logos
13) Passion Pit – Manners
14) Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
15) The Raveonettes – In and out of control
16) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
17) The Horrors – Primary Colours
18) The Drums
19) Miike Snow – Miike Snow
20) Matt & Kim – Grand
21) Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
22) JJ – N°2
23) A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
24) Tegan & Sara – Sainthood
25) Handsome Furs – Face Control