Year-End Lists

Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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1. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
2. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
3. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
   A Tribe Called Quest
4. The Life of Pablo
   Kanye West
5. Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight
   Travis Scott
6. Blond
   Frank Ocean
7. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
8. Anti
   Rihanna
9. Blank Face LP
   Schoolboy Q
10. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
11. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
12. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
13. Jeffery
    Young Thug
14. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
15. Views
    Drake
16. Slime Season 3
    Young Thug
17. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
18. Islah
    Kevin Gates
19. Still Brazy
    YG
20. Lil Uzi Vert Vs. The World
    Lil Uzi Vert
21. A Good Night in the Ghetto
    Kamaiyah
22. Yes Lawd!
    NxWorries
23. The Divine Feminine
    Mac Miller
24. Ology
    Gallant
25. Telefone
    Noname
26. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
27. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
28. 24K Magic
    Bruno Mars
29. COLLEGROVE
    2 Chainz
30. SremmLife 2
    Rae Sremmurd
31. Lil Boat
    Lil Yachty
32. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
33. SEPT. 5TH
    dvsn
34. Blackstar
    David Bowie
35. Aa
    Baauer
36. iiiDrops
    Joey Purp
37. Honor Killed the Samurai
    Ka
38. Endless
    Frank Ocean
39. Savage Mode
    21 Savage & Metro Boomin
40. Starboy
    The Weeknd
41. Emily’s D+Evolution
    Esperanza Spalding
42. Big Baby D.R.A.M.
    D.R.A.M.
43. Joanne
    Lady Gaga
44. blackSUMMERS’night
    Maxwell
45. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
46. Puberty 2
    Mitski
47. Always Strive and Prosper
    A$AP Ferg
48. Major Key
    DJ Khaled
49. Dangerous Woman
    Ariana Grande
50. Majid Jordan
    Majid Jordan