Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Blackstar
   David Bowie
2. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
3. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
   A Tribe Called Quest
4. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
5. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
6. Blond
   Frank Ocean
7. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
8. You Want It Darker
   Leonard Cohen
9. Teens of Denial
   Car Seat Headrest
10. The Life of Pablo
    Kanye West
11. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
12. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
13. Anti
    Rihanna
14. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
15. Puberty 2
    Mitski
16. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
    Sturgill Simpson
17. American Band
    Drive-By Truckers
18. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
19. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
20. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
21. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
22. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
23. The Weight of These Wings
    Miranda Lambert
24. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
25. Cardinal
    Philip Jeck
26. Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
    Margo Price
27. Post Pop Depression
    Iggy Pop
28. Hero
    Maren Morris
29. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
30. Blue & Lonesome
    The Rolling Stones
31. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
32. Adore Life
    Savages
33. Big Day in a Small Town
    Brandy Clark
34. Goodness
    The Hotelier
35. Telefone
    Noname
36. Emily’s D+Evolution
    Esperanza Spalding
37. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
38. Awaken, My Love!
    Childish Gambino
39. We Are King
    KING
40. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
41. Upland Stories
    Robbie Fulks
42. Islah
    Kevin Gates
43. Still Brazy
    YG
44. Stranger to Stranger
    Paul Simon
45. The Hope Six Demolition Project
    PJ Harvey
46. Blank Face LP
    Schoolboy Q
47. Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
    75 Dollar Bill
48. Love & Hate
    Michael Kiwanuka
49. HEAVN
    Jamila Woods
50. FLOTUS
    Lambchop
51. Good Times!
    The Monkees
52. blackSUMMERS’night
    Maxwell
53. Wildflower
    The Avalanches
54. Jeffery
    Young Thug
55. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
56. Heron Oblivion
    Heron Oblivion
57. EARS
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
58. and the Anonymous Nobody…
    De La Soul
59. Paradise
    Floorplan
60. WORRY.
    Jeff Rosenstock
60. Honor Killed the Samurai
    Ka
62. The Bird & the Rifle
    Lori McKenna
63. Heart Like a Levee
    Hiss Golden Messenger
64. Pretty Years
    Cymbals Eat Guitars
65. Interventions
    Horse Lords
66. I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
    Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
67. Yes Lawd!
    NxWorries
68. Psychopomp
    Japanese Breakfast
69. Eyes on the Lines
    Steve Gunn
70. The Ghosts of Highway 20
    Lucinda Williams
71. Singing Saw
    Kevin Morby
71. Real
    Lydia Loveless
73. Modern Country
    William Tyler
74. The Dream Is Over
    PUP
75. Black Terry Cat
    Xenia Rubinos
76. Redemption
    Dawn Richard
77. case/lang/veirs
    case/lang/veirs
77. The New Breed
    Jeff Parker
79. Ruminations
    Conor Oberst
80. The Impossible Kid
    Aesop Rock
80. Schmilco
    Wilco
82. Patch the Sky
    Bob Mould
83. Changes
    Charles Bradley
84. Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
    Martha
85. This Is Where I Live
    William Bell
86. Away with You
    Mary Halvorson Octet
86. Love Streams
    Tim Hecker
88. elseq 1-5
    Autechre
89. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
    Dinosaur Jr.
90. For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
    Huerco S
90. A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
    Vijay Iyer & Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
92. Moth
    Chairlift
93. A Good Night in the Ghetto
    Kamaiyah
94. We Are the Halluci Nation
    A Tribe Called Red
95. Joanne
    Lady Gaga
96. A Mulher do Fim do Mundo
    Elza Soares
96. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
98. Slow Forever
    Cobalt
99. Mangy Love
    Cass McCombs
100. Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
     Metallica