Over the past few weeks, music fans have been inundated with countless best-of lists, of both the year-end and the decade-end variety. Of special interest to Vancouver readers, several local bands fared well in prominent publications’ roundups.

Local sensation Japandroids was the big winner, with its album Post-Nothing scoring a place on year-end lists from Pitchfork (number 15), Spin (number 16), and NME (number 39), among others. The disc’s highest ranking came from Exclaim!, which hailed it as the number two pop-rock album of the year. Also placing on Exclaim!’s list was local It Boy Dan Mangan, whose Nice, Nice, Very Nice was named the year’s number five folk album.

In the decade-end lists, local supergroup the New Pornographers fared the best: Pitchfork named 2000’s Mass Romantic the 91st-best album, while Rolling Stone gave number 79 to 2003’s Electric Version. Perhaps the most convincing proof of the outfit’s critical recognition came from Metacritic, which compiled reviews from the ’00s and revealed that the group was the 11th-most-acclaimed artist.

Billboard unveiled a list based solely on chart performance, identifying Nickelback as the number one band of the decade. As for whether this is an honour or not, the ranking will no doubt leave music fans divided as usual.