Year-End Lists

The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

1. Blond
   Frank Ocean
2. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
3. 22, A Million
   Bon Iver
4. Malibu
   Anderson .Paak
5. My Woman
   Angel Olsen
6. Skeleton Tree
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
7. Blackstar
   David Bowie
8. Hopelessness
   ANOHNI
9. Human Performance
   Parquet Courts
10. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
11. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
12. Teens of Denial
    Car Seat Headrest
13. Lost Time
    Tacocat
14. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
15. Puberty 2
    Mitski
16. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
17. Varmints
    Anna Meredith
18. For All We Know
    Nao
19. Nothing’s Real
    Shura
20. Cardinal
    Pinegrove
21. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
22. Rojus (Designed to Dance)
    Leon Vynehall
23. The Life of Pablo
    Kanye West
24. Adore Life
    Savages
25. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
26. Next Thing
    Frankie Cosmos
27. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
28. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
29. Telefone
    Noname
30. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
31. Boy King
    Wild Beasts
32. Will
    Julianna Barwick
33. Leave Me Alone
    Hinds
34. Don’t Let the Kids Win
    Julia Jacklin
35. Fetish Bones
    Moor Mother
36. How to Be a Human Being
    Glass Animals
37. Painting of a Panic Attack
    Frightened Rabbit
38. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
39. Darwîś
    Parra for Cuva
40. Good Luck And Do Your Best
    Gold Panda
41. Here
    Teenage Fanclub
42. Mirror Breathing
    Shield Patterns
43. Babes Never Die
    Honeyblood
44. Singing Saw
    Kevin Morby
45. American Football (LP2)
    American Football
46. City
    Law Holt
47. Meet the Humans
    Steve Mason
48. Weem
    De Rosa
49. E•MO•TION: Side B
    Carly Rae Jepsen
50. Not to Disappear
    Daughter