Now that Thanksgiving is over, everyone will be rolling out their ‘Best of 2016’ lists . . . and this year, “Rolling Stone” is up first with their rundown of ‘The 50 Best Albums of the Year.’ Here’s the Top 20 . . .
1. “Lemonade”, Beyoncé
2. “Blackstar”, David Bowie
3. “Coloring Book”, Chance the Rapper
4. “Teens of Denial”, Car Seat Headrest
5. “Blonde”, Frank Ocean
6. “A Moon Shaped Pool”, Radiohead
7. “Blue and Lonesome”, The Rolling Stones. It comes out this Friday.
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
Of course, there’s still a month left in 2016, so they jumped the gun a little. It’s unclear how many albums they were able to hear that aren’t out yet . . . other than the new Stones album, which is on their list.
That said, there aren’t many high profile albums set to come out over the next month. John Legend and Childish Gambino have albums coming this week, and Neil Young is releasing one next week.
(RollingStone.com has the full list, along with brief write-ups on each, here.)
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