Year-End Lists

Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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1. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
2. Blond
   Frank Ocean
3. Blackstar
   David Bowie
4. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
   A Tribe Called Quest
5. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
   The 1975
6. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
7. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
8. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
9. My Woman
   Angel Olsen
10. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
11. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
12. Anti
    Rihanna
13. The Life of Pablo
    Kanye West
14. Puberty 2
    Mitski
15. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
16. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
17. Jeffery
    Young Thug
18. Emily’s D+Evolution
    Esperanza Spalding
19. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
20. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
21. We Are King
    KING
22. Islah
    Kevin Gates
23. Cody
    Joyce Manor
24. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
25. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
26. Blank Face LP
    Schoolboy Q
27. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
28. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
29. Pretty Years
    Cymbals Eat Guitars
30. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
31. Goodness
    The Hotelier
32. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
33. A Good Night in the Ghetto
    Kamaiyah
34. SEPT. 5TH
    dvsn
35. Teens of Denial
    Car Seat Headrest
36. Wildflower
    The Avalanches
37. Paradise
    White Lung
38. blackSUMMERS’night
    Maxwell
39. Still Brazy
    YG
40. The Weight of These Wings
    Miranda Lambert
41. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
42. 24K Magic
    Bruno Mars
43. Strangers
    Marissa Nadler
44. A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
    Vijay Iyer & Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
45. Värähtelijä
    Oranssi Pazuzu
46. The Bride
    Bat for Lashes
47. Hero
    Maren Morris
48. Cardinal
    Pinegrove
49. DJ-Kicks
    Moodymann
50. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
    Sturgill Simpson