I combined 25 different "Greatest Fifth Wave Emo Albums" lists to find what the common consensus is
If I asked 10 people what the greatest movies of all time were I'd probably get 10 different answers. But with a large enough sample you start to get some highly-regarded repeat answers. That's how you get things like Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Seven Samurai as "typical" answers for greatest movies.
You might remember when I did this last year with all the waves of emo, but this time around it is exclusively fifth wave albums
Some things to note, I limited the list to one album per band, there was a lot of vote splitting for artist who had multiple releases (I'm looking at you Asian Glow), so I combined their totals and awarded the album that was mentioned the most. The only time I picked a different album was when there was a newer album that everyone seemed to gravitate towards more. For example, despite I Became Birds having more votes than the whaler, not a single list had IBB>TW in the time frame that both of those albums had been out.
Anyways, here's the list
| Rank | Artist | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parannoul | To See the Next Part of the Dream | 2021 |
| 2 | Glass Beach | The First Glass Beach Album | 2019 |
| 3 | Home is Where | The Whaler | 2023 |
| 4 | Weatherday | Come In | 2019 |
| 5 | Asian Glow | Cull Ficle | 2021 |
| 6 | Origami Angel | Somewhere City | 2019 |
| 7 | Your Arms Are My Cocoon | Your Arms are My Cocoon | 2020 |
| 8 | Dogleg | Melee | 2020 |
| 9 | Pool Kids | Pool Kids | 2022 |
| 10 | Guitar Fight from Fooly Cooly | Soak | 2020 |
| 11 | Awakebutstillinbed | What People Call Self Esteem | 2018 |
| 12 | Hey, ILY | Psychokinetic Love Songs | 2022 |
| 13 | Ogbert the Nerd | I Don't Hate you | 2020 |
| 14 | Oso Oso | Basking in the Glow | 2019 |
| 15 | Stomach Book | Stomach Book | 2021 |
| 16 | Prince Daddy & The Hyenna | Cosmic Thrill Seekers | 2019 |
| 17 | Lobsterfight | Sun Soaking | 2022 |
| 18 | bed bug | life like moving pictures | 2020 |
| 19 | The Civil War in France | The Civil War in France | 2021 |
| 20 | Short Fictions | Fates Worse Than Death | 2019 |
If you wanna see the working list with every album that was even mentioned once, that can be found here. If you're looking for more aggregate lists like these, I've done them for emo, rap, punk, grunge, pop punk, stoner metal, and metalcore albums. Enjoy