Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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1. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
2. Blackstar
   David Bowie
3. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
4. Teens of Denial
   Car Seat Headrest
5. Blond
   Frank Ocean
6. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
7. Blue & Lonesome
   The Rolling Stones
8. The Life of Pablo
   Kanye West
9. You Want It Darker
   Leonard Cohen
10. Jeffery
    Young Thug
11. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
12. Stranger to Stranger
    Paul Simon
13. Hero
    Maren Morris
14. Revolution Radio
    Green Day
15. Return to Love
    Lvl Up
16. The Weight of These Wings
    Miranda Lambert
17. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
18. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
19. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
20. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
21. Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
    Margo Price
22. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
23. Puberty 2
    Mitski
24. American Band
    Drive-By Truckers
25. Anti
    Rihanna
26. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
    Sturgill Simpson
27. Big Day in a Small Town
    Brandy Clark
28. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
29. Mudcrutch 2
    Mudcrutch
30. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
31. Paradise
    White Lung
32. Here
    Alicia Keys
33. 57th & 9th
    Sting
34. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
35. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
36. Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
    Metallica
37. Dig In Deep
    Bonnie Raitt
38. Lady Wood
    Tove Lo
39. Wonderful Crazy Night
    Elton John
40. blackSUMMERS’night
    Maxwell
41. Schmilco
    Wilco
42. Views
    Drake
43. Evol
    Future
44. Good Times!
    The Monkees
45. Post Pop Depression
    Iggy Pop
46. Day Breaks
    Norah Jones
47. Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
    Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
48. Emily’s D+Evolution
    Esperanza Spalding
49. We’re All Gonna Die
    Dawes
50. Bottomless Pit
    Death Grips