Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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