According to the "BBC", it was the critics' top album of 2016, while according to Metacritic, it was the second most prominently ranked record of 2016, and the album that was listed at number one by the most publications (37 publications). "Lemonade" was ranked as the best album of the year by such publications as "Rolling Stone", "Billboard", "Entertainment Weekly", "The Guardian", "Digital Spy", "The Independent", "The Associated Press", "The New York Times" (Jon Pareles list), "Los Angeles Times" (Mikael Wood list), "Pop Matters", "Pretty Much Amazing", Idolator, "Stereogum", "Complex", "Consequence of Sound", "Wired", and "US Weekly". "Paste", "USA Today," "NPR" also included the release on their list of best albums of 2016. On the annual "Village Voice"s Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2016, "Lemonade" was ranked at number two. For "Slant" it was the third best, while "Exclaim!" listed the album at number four on their list of the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2016. According to "Spin", it was the sixth best album of 2016. "NME" listed "Lemonade" at number eleven on their list of best albums of the year, "FACT" at number fifteen, "Drowned in Sound" at number twelve, "Uncut" at number ten, "Mojo" at number twelve, "Q" at number thirteen, while "Tiny Mix Tapes" at number thirty-two. "Esquire" magazine included "Lemonade" among the twenty best releases of 2016. "Pitchfork" listed "Lemonade" as the third best album of the same year. The "Lemonade" film also appeared on a number of critics' lists. "Pitchfork" listed "Lemonade" at number one on their list of best music videos of 2016. It was also included on "Sight & Sound"s best films of 2016 list at number twenty-six. David Ehrlich, a film critic for IndieWire, placed "Lemonade" at number twenty-three on his Best Films of 2016 list. Jen Yamato from "The Daily Beast" ranked it at number nine on her list of the Top 10 Best Films of 2016.