The best albums and songs of 2019 revealed bbc.com

The star's fifth album is named the year's best record by critics – but who else made the top 20?
Lana Del Rey's complex and beguiling fifth album, Norman Rockwell, was music critics' favorite record of 2019.

Full of luscious soft-rock ballads that peer uneasily at the demise of the American Dream, the album has topped a "poll of polls" compiled by BBC News.

"Thank you so much to the BBC for album of the year," the star said.