Year-End Lists

NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016

1. Solange
   A Seat at the Table
2. Beyoncé
   Lemonade
3. David Bowie
   Blackstar
4. Frank Ocean
   Blond
5. Bon Iver
   22, A Million
6. Barbara Hannigan, Andris Nelsons & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
   H. Abrahamsen: Let Me Tell You
7. Anderson .Paak
   Malibu
8. Car Seat Headrest
   Teens of Denial
9. Miranda Lambert
   The Weight of These Wings
10. Chance The Rapper
    Coloring Book
11. Xenia Rubinos
    Black Terry Cat
12. Rihanna
    Anti
13. KAYTRANADA
    99.9%
14. Drive-By Truckers
    American Band
15. Radiohead
    A Moon Shaped Pool
16. Carrie Rodriguez
    Lola
17. A Tribe Called Quest
    We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
18. Laura Mvula
    The Dreaming Room
19. James Bobick, Marnie Breckenridge, Cherry Duke, John Kelly, Michael Marcotte, Newspeak, Alan Pierson, Peter Tantsits & Lauren Worsham
    David T. Little: Dog Days
20. Margo Price
    Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
21. The 1975
    I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
22. Noname
    Telefone
23. A-Wa
    Habib Galbi
24. Young Thug
    Jeffery
25. Angel Olsen
    My Woman
26. Noura Mint Seymali
    Arbina
27. Jamila Woods
    HEAVN
28. Esperanza Spalding
    Emily’s D+Evolution
29. Mitski
    Puberty 2
30. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
    EARS
31. Big Thief
    Masterpiece
32. ANOHNI
    Hopelessness
33. Logan Richardson
    Shift
34. Lori McKenna
    The Bird & the Rifle
35. Pavel Kolesnikov
    Chopin: Mazurkas
36. Maren Morris
    Hero
37. René Marie
    Sound of Red
38. Pinegrove
    Cardinal
39. Tweet
    Charlene
40. Aaron Lee Tasjan
    Silver Tears
41. Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy
    Darraje
42. Pure Disgust
    Pure Disgust
43. Parker Millsap
    The Very Last Day
44. New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
    Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms
45. Mal Devisa
    Kiid
46. Steven Julien
    Fallen
47. Y La Bamba
    Ojos Del Sol
48. Domo Genesis
    Genesis
49. Sturgill Simpson
    A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
50. Catherine Russell
    Harlem on My Mind