Top 100 Albums of the Year (2010-present) (Revision Version)

[ManPerson]

Some more albums that I'd argue should be added
Finally Rich - Strong popularity over the years and a precursor to a lot of the trap that would come a few years later, some acclaim as well (#32 on Rolling Stone's greatest hip hop albums list from a few years)
Young Rich Ni**as - Migos breakthrough mixtape, Versace in particular was very influential.
I Love You (The Neighbourhood) - One of the most streamed indie albums of the decade
Born Sinner - 3x platinum with decent reviews as well

Some albums I'd have higher
Visions - It's clearly more acclaimed than Wrecking Ball for example and I'm not even sure it even loses popularity at this point (it has 838m streams to Springsteen's 101m). It's more acclaimed and popular than The Money Store as well.
Night Visions - Lackluster acclaim (though something like Some Nights doesn't do that much better) but it's also one of the most popular albums of the decade so I'd say it should be top 30-40 at least.

I'd have Beyonce > Random Access Memories as I'd give the former popularity and influence and the latter acclaim, and if anything acclaim is the category with the smallest gap between the two.

[Ryan]

I'd have Beyonce > Random Access Memories as I'd give the former popularity and influence and the latter acclaim, and if anything acclaim is the category with the smallest gap between the two.

Made all of these changes except for this one. I don't think I want to change any of the #1s at the moment.

[ManPerson]

Ok, fair enough

[Ryan]

ManPerson, I included a lot of what you suggested, but I am very skeptical about putting that Maroon 5 album on this list at all, let alone the Top 20. While the album may be popular, it does very badly in acclaim as with most Maroon 5 albums aside from their first two.

2014

1. 1989 - Taylor Swift
2. Black Messiah - D'Angelo & The Vanguard
3. x - Ed Sheeran (HIGHER)
4. Run the Jewels II - Run the Jewels
5. Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs
6. In the Lonely Hour - Sam Smith (HIGHER)
7. LP1 - FKA Twigs (HIGHER)
8. Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey (HIGHER)
9. Hozier - Hozier (HIGHER)
10. The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj (HIGHER)
11. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
12. 1000 Forms of Fear - Sia
13. 2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole (HIGHER)
14. Salad Days - Mac Demarco (HIGHER)
15. Morning Phase - Beck (LOWER)
16. The Outsiders - Eric Church
17. Lazaretto - Jack White (LOWER)
18. Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - Sturgill Simpson (HIGHER)
19. My Everything - Ariana Grande (HIGHER)
20. Atlas - Real Estate
21. Alvvays - Alvvays (HIGHER)
22. Burn Your Fire for No Witness - Angel Olsen (LOWER)
23. It's Album Time - Todd Terje (HIGHER)
24. Are We There - Sharon Von Etten
25. Syro - Aphex Twin
26. Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me! (LOWER)
27. Lese Majesty - Shabazz Palaces
28. They Want My Soul - Spoon
29. This is All Yours - Alt-J (LOWER)
30. Oxymoron - Schoolboy Q (LOWER)
31. High Hopes - Bruce Springsteen (LOWER)
32. Ruins - Grouper (HIGHER)
33. Benji - Sun Kil Moon (LOWER)
34. Sunbathing Animal - Parquet Courts
35. Here and Nowhere Else - Cloud Nothings
36. Singles - Future Islands (HIGHER)
37. Venice - Anderson .Paak
38. Pinata - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib (HIGHER)
39. The Voyager - Jenny Lewis (LOWER)
40. You're Dead! - Flying Lotus
41. To Be Kind - Swans (LOWER)
42. Cheek to Cheek – Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
43. Manipulator - Ty Segall (HIGHER)
44. Strange Desire - Bleachers (HIGHER)
45. I Never Learn - Lykke Li (LOWER)
46. Bury Me at Makeout Creek - Mitski
47. Popular Problems - Leonard Cohen (LOWER)
48. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
49. Nikki Nack - Tune-Yards (LOWER)
50. What is This Heart? - How to Dress Well (LOWER)
51. Hypnotic Eye - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (LOWER)
52. Platinum - Miranda Lambert
53. And Then You Shoot Your Cousin - The Roots (LOWER)
54. Everybody Down - Kae Tempest
55. In Conflict - Owen Pallett (LOWER)
56. Brill Bruisers - The New Pornographers (HIGHER)
57. Everything Will Be Alright in the End - Weezer (HIGHER)
58. Too Bright - Perfume Genius (LOWER)
59. My Krazy Life - YG
60. Sonic Highways - Foo Fighters (LOWER)
61. Seeds - TV on the Radio (LOWER)
62. ZABA - Glass Animals
63. Turn Blue - The Black Keys (LOWER)
64. Sukierae - Tweedy (LOWER)
65. I'm In Your Mind Fuzz - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
66. Home, Like Noplace is There - The Hotelier
67. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone - Lucinda Williams (HIGHER)
68. Voices - Phantogram (HIGHER)
69. Give the People What They Want - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
70. Sucker - Charli XCX
71. Tomorrow's Modern Boxes - Thom Yorke (HIGHER)
72. Plowing into the Field of Love - Iceage (LOWER)
73. Bad Self Portiats - Lake Street Dive
74. Our Love - Caribou (HIGHER)
75. Mandatory Fun - "Weird Al" Yankovic
76. Wanted on Voyage - George Ezra (HIGHER)
77. The Future Void - EMA (LOWER)
78. Everyday Robots - Damon Albarn
79. Aquarius - Tinashe
80. Somewhere Else - Lydia Loveless
81. Four - One Direction (HIGHER)
82. Mess - Liars (LOWER)
83. El Pinitor - Interpol
84. Rips - Ex Hex
85. Dude Incredible - Shellac
86. Art Official Age - Prince (LOWER)
87. Motion - Calvin Harris
88. Hesitant Alien - Gerard Way
89. Guilty of Everything - Nothing (HIGHER)
90. .5: The Gray Chapter - Slipknot
91. Talking is Hard - Walk the Moon (LOWER)
92. Shriek - Wye Oak
93. Unrepentant Geraldines - Tori Amos (LOWER)
94. The Hunting Party - Linkin Park
95. Ghost Stories - Coldplay (LOWER)
96. Fuego - Phish (LOWER)
97. III - BADBADNOTGOOD
98. 5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer
99. Dream Your Life Away - Vance Joy
100. V - Maroon 5


CUTS
41. The Endless River - Pink Floyd
52. Songs of Innocence - U2
53. G I R L - Pharrell Williams
56. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
62. Say Yes to Love - Perfect Pussy
65. World Peace is None of Your Business - Morrissey
72. V - Maroon 5
75. Pom Pom - Ariel Pink
77. Playland - Johnny Marr
80. Heartleap - Vashti Bunyan
82. Broke with Expensive Taste - Azealia Banks
85. Nobody's Smiling - Common (LOWER)
87. Lights Out - Ingrid Michelson
90. The Golden Echo - Kimbra
92. The Take Off and Landing of Everything - Elbow
97. Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
100. Queen of the Clouds - Tove Lo

[ManPerson]

I understand not having V particularly high but if there's room for a few acclaimed albums that didn't chart anywhere on the list, I think one of the best selling albums of the year with good lasting popularity should be able to make it as well, even with lackluster acclaim.

[ManPerson]

Anyway, the only other major addition I'd make is Motion by Calvin Harris as its also one of the more popular albums of the year.

[Ryan]

I understand not having V particularly high but if there's room for a few acclaimed albums that didn't chart anywhere on the list, I think one of the best selling albums of the year with good lasting popularity should be able to make it as well, even with lackluster acclaim.

I guess. I added it at #100. Also added Calvin Harris.

[Ryan]

2015 and 2016. I think I might as well complete these while I'm waiting for the Uproxx poll to come out

2015

1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
2. 25 - Adele
3. Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording - Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast
4. Currents - Tame Impala
5. Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
6. Traveller - Chris Stapleton (HIGHER)
7. Purpose - Justin Bieber (HIGHER)
8. Beauty Behind the Madness - The Weeknd
9. DS2 - Future (HIGHER)
10. Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots (HIGHER)
11. Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett
12. In Color - Jamie XX (HIGHER)
13. Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen (LOWER)
14. If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake (HIGHER)
15. Barter 6 - Young Thug
16. Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
17. The Epic - Kamasi Washington
18. I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty (HIGHER)
19. Trapsoul - Bryson Tiller
20. Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes (LOWER)
21. Rodeo - Travis Scott
22. Art Angels - Grimes (LOWER)
23. B'lieve I'm Goin' Down - Kurt Vile (LOWER)
24. Wildheart - Miguel (LOWER)
25. Coming Home - Leon Bridges (LOWER)
26. Vulnicura - Björk (LOWER)
27. Divers - Joanna Newsom
28. No Cities to Love - Sleater-Kinney (LOWER)
29. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt (LOWER)
30. Have You In My Wilderness - Julia Holter (LOWER)
31. Depression Cherry - Beach House (HIGHER)
32. Something More Than Free - Jason Isbell (LOWER)
33. Painted Shut - Hop Along
34. Badlands - Halsey
35. The Magic Whip - Blur (LOWER)
36. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence + The Machine (HIGHER)
37. The Most Lamentable Tragedy - Titus Andronicus (HIGHER)
38. Fading Frontier - Deerhunter (HIGHER)
39. What Went Down - Foals (HIGHER)
40. Ego Death - The Internet (HIGHER)
41. New Bermuda - Deafheaven (HIGHER)
42. Every Open Eye - Chvrches (LOWER)
43. Star Wars - Wilco (LOWER)
44. Short Movie - Laura Marling (HIGHER)
45. Honeymoon - Lana Del Rey
46. What a Time to Be Alive - Drake & Future
47. Get to Heaven - Everything Everything (HIGHER)
48. Surf - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment (LOWER)
49. FFS - FFS
50. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap (HIGHER)
51. Tomorrow is My Turn - Rhiannon Giddens (LOWER)
52. Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance - Belle and Sebastian
53. Unbreakable - Janet Jackson (LOWER)
54. Kintsugi - Death Cab for Cutie
55. Ten Love Songs - Susanne Sundfor (HIGHER)
56. My Love is Cool - Wolf Alice
57. At.Long.Last.A$AP - A$AP Rocky (LOWER)
58. Ivy Tripp - Waxahatchee (HIGHER)
59. Apocalypse, Girl - Jenny Hval
60. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - Panda Bear (HIGHER)
61. Foil Deer - Speedy Ortiz
62. On Your Own Love Again - Jessica Pratt (HIGHER)
63. Mr. Misunderstood - Eric Church
64. Sprained Ankle - Julien Baker
65. Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan (LOWER)
66. The Waterfall - My Morning Jacket
67. Ratchet - Shamir (HIGHER)
68. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
69. Blackheart - Dawn Richard (LOWER)
70. SremmLife - Rae Sremmurd
71. Compton - Dr. Dre (LOWER)
72. Sol Invictus - Faith No More (HIGHER)
73. Made in the A.M. - One Direction (HIGHER)
74. Mutilator Defeated at Last - Thee Oh Sees (HIGHER)
75. Beat the Champ - The Mountain Goats (HIGHER)
76. Thank Your Lucky Stars - Beach House (HIGHER)
77. A Head Full of Dreams - Coldplay (LOWER)
78. Born Under Saturn - Django Django
79. Rose Mountain - Screaming Females (LOWER)
80. Jack U - Skrillex & Diplo (LOWER)
81. Eat Pray Thug - Heems (LOWER)
82. Before the World Was Big - Girlpool
83. Chaos and the Calm - James Bay
84. Peace is the Mission - Major Lazer
85. Meliora - Ghost
86. The Age Intellect - Protomartyr
87. Cherry Bomb - Tyler the Creator (LOWER)
88. Viet Cong - Preoccupations
89. Cry Baby - Melanie Martinez
90. Paper Mâché Dream Balloon - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
91. Purple - Baroness
92. Ones and Sixes - Low
93. Multi-Love - Unknown Mortal Orchestra (LOWER)
94. Chasing Yesterday - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (LOWER)
95. Wilder Mind - Mumford & Sons (LOWER)
96. That's the Spirit - Bring Me the Horizon (LOWER)
97. Jekyll and Hyde - Zac Brown Band
98. Uptown Special - Mark Ronson (LOWER)
99. Pentatonix - Pentatonix (LOWER)
100. La Di Da Di - Battles (LOWER)


Cuts:
55. Before This World - James Taylor
58. The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us - Beach Slang
64. American Beauty/American Psycho - Fall Out Boy
66. A Fool to Care - Boz Scaggs
74. Drones - Muse
75. Tetsuo & Youth - Lupe Fiasco
77. Smoke & Mirrors - Imagine Dragons
79. Sprinter - Torres
83. Zipper Down - Eagles of Death Metal
84. Pale Horses - mewithoutYou
87. Better Nature - Silversun Pickups
90. Yours. Dreamily - The Arcs
91. Full Communism - Downtown Boys
92. Another Eternity - Purity Ring
93. Silver Bullets - The Chills
94. Apex Predator - Easy Meat - Napalm Death
95. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World - The Decemberists
96. Still - Richard Thompson
97. Sounds Good Feels Good - 5 Seconds of Summer
99. The Pale Emperor - Marilyn Manson
100. Music Complete - New Order

2016

1. Lemonade - Beyoncé
2. Blonde - Frank Ocean (HIGHER)
3. Blackstar - David Bowie
4. ANTI - Rihanna
5. A Seat at the Table - Solange
6. Starboy - The Weeknd
7. Views - Drake
8. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
9. Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper
10. We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest
11. Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande (HIGHER)
12. 24k Magic - Bruno Mars (HIGHER)
13. The Life of Pablo - Kanye West (LOWER)
14. 22, A Million - Bon Iver (LOWER)
15. Malibu - Anderson .Paak (HIGHER)
16. Awaken, My Love! - Childish Gambino (HIGHER)
17. Puberty 2 - Mitski (HIGHER)
18. A Sailor's Guide to Earth - Sturgill Simpson
19. Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
20. Stoney - Post Malone
21. Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest
22. My Woman - Angel Olsen
23. I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It - The 1975 (HIGHER)
24. You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen (LOWER)
25. Run the Jewels 3 - Run the Jewels
26. This is Acting - Sia (LOWER)
27. Midwest Farmer's Daughter - Margo Price
28. Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown
29. Freetown Sound - Blood Orange (LOWER)
30. Untitled Unmastered - Kendrick Lamar
31. Nonagon Infinity - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
32. Post Pop Depression - Iggy Pop
33. The Hope Six Demolition Project - PJ Harvey
34. Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight - Travis Scott
35. The Weight of These Wings - Miranda Lambert (HIGHER)
36. Hoplessness - Anohni (LOWER)
37. Human Performance - Parquet Courts (LOWER)
38. case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs (HIGHER)
39. Jeffery - Young Thug
40. Emily's D+Evolution - Esperanza Spalding (LOWER)
41. American Band - Drive-By Truckers (LOWER)
42. blackSUMMERS'night - Maxwell (LOWER)
43. Stranger to Stranger - Paul Simon (LOWER)
44. Schmilco - Wilco
45. Hero - Maren Morris
46. Sremmlife 2 - Rae Sremmurd
47. 99.9% - Kaytranada (HIGHER)
48. Goodness - The Hotelier (LOWER)
49. Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka (HIGHER)
50. No Burden - Lucy Dacus (LOWER)
51. Joanne - Lady Gaga (LOWER)
52. Worry. - Jeff Rosenstock (HIGHER)
53. Let Them Eat Chaos - Kae Tempest (HIGHER)
54. Blank Face LP - Schoolboy Q
55. SVIIB - School of Seven Bells (HIGHER)
56. Psychopomp - Japanese Breakfast
57. HEAVN - Jamila Woods (HIGHER)
58. Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones (LOWER)
59. Blood Bitch - Jenny Hval (HIGHER)
60. The Colour in Anything - James Blake
61. A Weird Exits - Thee Oh Sees
62. We Are KING - We Are KING
63. Weezer (The White Album) - Weezer (LOWER)
64. The Ghosts of Highway 20 - Lucinda Williams (LOWER)
65. I Had A Dream You Were Mine - Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam (HIGHER)
66. Konnichiwa - Skepta (HIGHER)
67. Bottomless Pit - Death Grips
68. Wildflower - The Avalanches (HIGHER)
69. Blue Mountain - Bob Weir (LOWER)
70. The Dream is Over - PUP
71. Hardwired...to Self-Destruct - Metallica
72. Still Brazy - YG
73. Wonderful Crazy Night - Elton John (LOWER)
74. Moth - Chairlift
75. Gore - Deftones
76. Death of a Bachelor - Panic! at the Disco (LOWER)
77. Good Times! - The Monkees (LOWER)
78. Magma - Gojira (HIGHER)
79. Patch the Sky - Bob Mould (LOWER)
80. Holy Ghost - Modern Baseball (LOWER)
81. Front Row Seat to Earth - Weyes Blood
82. Big Day in a Small Town - Brandy Clark (LOWER)
83. Islah - Kevin Gates (LOWER)
84. Light Upon the Lake - Whitney
85. Sirens - Nicolas Jaar
86. Full Circle - Loretta Lynn
87. The Divine Feminine - Mac Miller
88. Adore Life - Savages (HIGHER)
89. various artists - La La Land soundtrack
90. Illuminate - Shawn Mendes
91. Telefone - Noname
92. Bonito Generation - Kero Kero Bonito
93. Dig In Deep - Bonnie Raitt (LOWER)
94. Changes - Charles Bradley
95. Masterpiece - Big Thief
96. Various artists - Moana soundtrack
97. Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future - Underworld
98. 57th & 9th - Sting (LOWER)
99. Glory - Britney Spears (LOWER)
100. Care - How to Dress Well (LOWER)


CUTS
52. AIM - M.I.A.
55. Tired of Tomorrow - Nothing
59. Paradise - White Lung
64. Remember Us to Life - Regina Spektor
65. Disassociation - The Dillinger Escape Plan
67. American Football - American Football
68. Away - Okkervil River
73. Revolution Radio - Green Day
75. Young In All the Wrong Ways - Sara Watkins
79. Night Thoughts - Suede
86. Painting of a Panic Attack - Frightened Rabbit
87. Here - Alicia Keys
89. We're All Gonna Die - Dawes
91. The Waiting Room - Tindersticks
93. Mudcrutch 2 - Mudcrutch
95. Chaleur Humaine - Christine and the Queens
96. Side Pony - Lake Street Dive
97. A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings - Beach Slang
99. A Good Night in the Ghetto - Kamaiyah

[Fido]

The Epic looks kinda low for what is claimed to be the greatest jazz album of the 21st century, but well, I guess it's inevitable when using the same criteria for all genres of music. Good changes overall.

[ManPerson]

Minor point but the Young Thug album is spelled Jeffery not Jeffrey

Some albums I'd add
Cry Baby - Very strong lasting popularity
Illuminate - Ditto
PRODUCT - Very important to the PC music/hyperpop scene

[Ryan]

I thought about PRODUCT, but it's a compilation isn't it?

I added all the other albums and moved up Kamasi Washington

[Ryan]

2017

1. DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
2. CTRL - SZA
3. Flower Boy - Tyler the Creator (HIGHER)
4. Melodrama - Lorde
5. Divide - Ed Sheeran (HIGHER)
6. American Teen - Khalid (HIGHER)
7. 4:44 - Jay-Z (LOWER)
8. A Deeper Understanding - The War on Drugs (HIGHER)
9. Culture - Migos (HIGHER)
10. Reputation - Taylor Swift
11. A Crow Looked at Me - Mount Eerie (LOWER)
12. Luv is Rage 2 - Lil Uzi Vert
13. MASSEDUCTION - St. Vincent (LOWER)
14. After Laughter - Paramore (HIGHER)
15. Harry Styles - Harry Styles (HIGHER)
16. Big Fish Theory - Vince Staples (LOWER)
17. More Life - Drake (LOWER)
18. This One's For You - Luke Combs
19. Lust for Life - Lana Del Rey (LOWER)
20. Arca - Arca
21. Sleep Well Beast - The National
22. Pure Comedy - Father John Misty (LOWER)
23. Drunk - Thundercat (HIGHER)
24. Utopia - Björk (LOWER)
25. Take Me Apart - Kelela (LOWER)
26. Plunge - Fever Ray
27. various artists - The Greatest Showman soundtrack
28. Antisocialites - Alvvays (HIGHER)
29. Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers (HIGHER)
30. Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti
31. The Ooz - King Krule
32. The Nashville Sound - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit (LOWER)
33. Soft Sounds from Another Planet - Japanese Breakfast (HIGHER)
34. Process - Sampha (LOWER)
35. Rainbow - Kesha (LOWER)
36. American Dream - LCD Soundsystem (LOWER)
37. Slowdive - Slowdive (LOWER)
38. No Shape - Perfume Genius
39. Capacity - Big Thief (LOWER)
40. HNDRXX - Future (LOWER)
41. I See You - The xx (LOWER)
42. Hot Thoughts - Spoon (HIGHER)
43. Freedom Highway - Rhiannon Giddens (LOWER)
44. From A Room: Volume 1 - Chris Stapleton (LOWER)
45. Crack-Up - Fleet Foxes (LOWER)
46. Turn Out the Lights - Julien Baker (LOWER)
47. All American Made - Margo Price (LOWER)
48. Pop 2 - Charli XCX
49. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 - Calvin Harris (LOWER)
50. Black Origami - Jlin (LOWER)
51. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa (HIGHER)
52. Semper Femina - Laura Marling
53. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
54. Villians - Queens of the Stone Age (LOWER)
55. Mental Illness - Aimee Mann
56. The Thrill of It All - Sam Smith (LOWER)
57. Rest - Charlotte Gainsbourg (HIGHER)
58. As You Were - Liam Gallagher
59. Something to Tell You - Haim
60. Flying Microtonal Banana - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
61. Nightmare Logic - Power Trip
62. SweetSexySavage - Kehlani (LOWER)
63. This Old Dog - Mac DeMarco (LOWER)
64. Fruedian - Daniel Ceasar (HIGHER)
65. Life Will See You Now - Jens Lekman
66. Pleasure - Feist
67. War & Leisure - Miguel
68. Relaxer - Alt-J
69. Hopeless Fountain Kingdom - Halsey
70. Soul of a Woman - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
71. What Now - Sylvan Esso
72. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream - Open Mike Eagle (LOWER)
73. Colors - Beck (HIGHER)
74. Ken - Destroyer (HIGHER)
75. Emperor of Sand - Mastodon (HIGHER)
76. Guppy - Charly Bliss (HIGHER)
77. Aromanticism - Moses Sumney (HIGHER)
78. Visions of a Life - Wolf Alice
79. Mirror Reaper - Bell Witch (HIGHER)
80. Carry Fire - Robert Plant (LOWER)
81. Saturation - Brockhampton
82. Don't Smile at Me - Billie Eilish
83. 50 Song Memoir - The Magnetic Fields (HIGHER)
84. Out in the Storm - Waxahatchee
85. Introduce Yerself - Gord Downie (LOWER)
86. All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ - Joey Bada$$
87. Woodstock - Portugal. The Man (LOWER)
88. Fin - Syd (LOWER)
89. 17 - XXXTentacion
90. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens (LOWER)
91. Ti Amo - Phoenix (LOWER)
92. Dark Matter - Randy Newman (LOWER)
93. The Weather Station - The Weather Station
94. Younger Now - Miley Cyrus
95. Saturation II - Brockhampton
96. Lotta Sea Lice - Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile (LOWER)
97. From A Room: Volume 2 - Chris Stapleton
98. A Black Mile to the Surface - Manchester Orchestra (LOWER)
99. About U - MUNA (LOWER)
100. Evolve - Imagine Dragons (LOWER)

CUTS
51. Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie - Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie
52. Beautiful Trauma - Pink
54. Is This the Life We Really Want? - Roger Waters
57. Science Fiction - Brand New
58. Everybody - Logic
60. Wonderful Wonderful - The Killers
66. Native Invader - Tori Amos
69. Flicker - Niall Horan
76. Goths - The Mountain Goats
82. One More Light - Linkin Park
83. Murder of the Universe - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
87. Near to the Wild Heart of Life - Japandroids
90. Concrete & Gold - Foo Fighters
93. Memories... Do Not Open - The Chainsmokers
94. Who Built the Moon? - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
95. Need to Feel Your Love - Sheer Mag
97. Cost of Living - Downtown Boys
99. Weather Diaries - Ride
100. Humanz - Gorillaz

[Ryan]

Here's the last two.

If anyone has any feedback about any of these lists, please let me know before I send these off to Lew.

2018

1. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe
2. Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B (HIGHER)
3. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
4. Be the Cowboy - Mitski
5. Astroworld - Travis Scott (HIGHER)
6. Sweetener - Ariana Grande (LOWER)
7. Beerbongs & Bentleys - Post Malone
8. Scorpion - Drake (HIGHER)
9. Black Panther soundtrack - Kendrick Lamar & various artists (LOWER)
10. Isolation - Kali Uchis (HIGHER)
11. El Mal Querer - Rosalia
12. Joy as an Act of Resistance - Idles
13. A Star is Born soundtrack - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (LOWER)
14. Swimming - Mac Miller (HIGHER)
15. X 100pre - Bad Bunny
16. Goodbye & Good Riddance - Juice WRLD
17. Daytona - Pusha T (LOWER)
18.Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino - Arctic Monkeys (LOWER)
19. Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides - SOPHIE
20. Vibras - J Balvin
21. A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships - The 1975 (LOWER)
22. Room 25 - Noname (LOWER)
23. Die Lit - Playboi Carti
24. Lush - Snail Mail (LOWER)
25. Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts (LOWER)
26. Boygenius - Boygenius (HIGHER)
27. FM! - Vince Staples (LOWER)
28. Historian - Lucy Dacus (LOWER)
29. By the Way, I Forgive You - Brandi Carlile (LOWER)
30. American Utopia - David Byrne
31. Love Yourself: Tear - BTS (LOWER)
32. In a Poem Unlimited - U.S. Girls (HIGHER)
33. ? - XXXTentacion
34. Honey - Robyn
35. 7 - Beach House (HIGHER)
36. Interstate Gospel - Pistol Annies (LOWER)
37. Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt (LOWER)
38. Trench - Twenty One Pilots
39. God's Favorite Customer - Father John Misty (LOWER)
40. Negro Swan - Blood Orange (LOWER)
41. Double Negative - Low (HIGHER)
42. Heaven & Earth - Kamasi Washington
43. Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett
44. Bark Your Head Off, Dog - Hop Along (LOWER)
45. Chris - Christine and the Queens (LOWER)
46. The Tree of Forgiveness - John Prine (LOWER)
47. Little Dark Age - MGMT (LOWER)
48. The Sciences - Sleep
49. Culture II - Migos (LOWER)
50. KOD - J. Cole (LOWER)
51. Future Me Hates Me - The Beths (HIGHER)
52. Clean - Soccer Mommy (LOWER)
53. Hive Mind - The Internet
54. I Need to Start a Garden - Haley Heynderickx (LOWER)
55. Time & Space - Turnstile (HIGHER)
56. There's a Riot Going On - Yo La Tengo (HIGHER)
57. Post - Jeff Rosenstock (HIGHER)
58. Bloom - Troye Sivan (LOWER)
59. High as Hope - Florence + The Machine (HIGHER)
60. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts (LOWER)
61. The Future and the Past - Natalie Prass (HIGHER)
62. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love - Deafheaven
63. Queen - Nicki Minaj (LOWER)
64. Boarding House Reach - Jack White
65. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack - various artists
66. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) - Car Seat Headrest (LOWER)
67. Everything is Love - The Carters (LOWER)
68. Hell-On - Neko Case (LOWER)
69. I'm All Ears - Let's Eat Grandma (HIGHER)
70. My Dear Melancholy - The Weeknd (HIGHER)
71. Ta13oo - Denzel Curry
72. Look Now - Elvis Costello & The Imposters (HIGHER)
73. Now Only - Mount Eerie (LOWER)
74. Hope Downs - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (HIGHER)
75. Songs of Praise - Shame (LOWER)
76. Electric Messiah - High on Fire (HIGHER)
77. Desperate Man - Eric Church
78. Pray for the Wicked - Panic! at the Disco (LOWER)
79. Iridescence - Brockhampton (LOWER)
80. Age Of - Oneohtrix Point Never (HIGHER)
81. Egypt Station - Paul McCartney (LOWER)
82. To the Sunset - Amanda Shires (LOWER)
83. What a Time to Be Alive - Superchunk
84. Warm - Jeff Tweedy (LOWER)
85. Oxnard - Anderson .Paak
86. Whack World - Tierra Whack
87. Aviary - Julia Holter
88. Nearer My God - Foxing
89. Ventriloquism - Meshell Ndegeocello (HIGHER)
90. Please Don't Be Dead - Fantastic Negrito (LOWER)
91. Prequelle - Ghost
92. Ephorize - Cupcakke (LOWER)
93. Whistle Down the Wind - Joan Baez (HIGHER)
94. Care for Me - Saba
95. And Nothing Hurt - Spiritualized (LOWER)
96. Invitation to Her's - Her's
97. Cocoa Sugar - Young Fathers
98. 2012-2017 - Against All Logic
99. Your Queen is a Reptile - Songs of Kemet
100. Beyondless - Iceage

CUTS
47. H.E.R - H.E.R.
53. Safe in the Hands of Love - Yves Tumor
58. Sparkle Hard - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
63. Come Tomorrow - Dave Matthews Band (LOWER)
66. Love is Dead - CHVRCHES
67. You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters
69. Knock Knock - DJ Koze
71. Dose Your Dreams - Fucked Up
72. Voicenotes - Charlie Puth
75. Caution - Mariah Carey
77. Delta - Mumford & Sons
80. I'll Be Your Girl - The Decemberists
83. I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life - Tune-Yards
86. Be More Kind - Frank Turner
91. Ye - Kanye West
98. Good Thing - Leon Bridges
99. Dove - Belly
100. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs - Wye Oak

2019
1. Norman Fucking Rockwell! - Lana Del Rey
2. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - Billie Eilish
3. Igor - Tyler the Creator (HIGHER)
4. Fine Line - Harry Styles (HIGHER)
5. Lover - Taylor Swift
6. thank u, next - Ariana Grande
7. Hollywood's Bleeding - Post Malone (HIGHER)
8. Homecoming: The Live Album - Beyoncé
9. Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood (HIGHER)
10. Ghosteen - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
11. Magdalene - FKA Twigs (HIGHER)
12. Cuz I Love You - Lizzo (LOWER)
13. Father of the Bride - Vampire Weekend (LOWER)
14. When I Get Home - Solange (HIGHER)
15. Fear Inoculum - Tool (LOWER)
16. Remind Me Tomorrow - Sharon van Etten (HIGHER)
17. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (HIGHER)
18. Oasis - J Balvin and Bad Bunny (HIGHER)
19. What You See Is What You Get - Luke Combs
20. 1000 gecs - 100 gecs (HIGHER)
21. All Mirrors - Angel Olsen (LOWER)
22. So Much Fun - Young Thug (HIGHER)
23. Dogrel - Fontaines D.C. (HIGHER)
24. UFOF - Big Thief (HIGHER)
24. Western Stars - Bruce Springsteen (LOWER)
25. 7 - Lil Nas X (LOWER)
26. Jaime - Brittany Howard
27. i, i - Bon Iver (LOWER)
28. Death Race for Love - Juice WRLD (HIGHER)
29. Legacy! Legacy! - Jamila Woods
30. Anima - Thom Yorke (LOWER)
31. On the Line - Jenny Lewis (HIGHER)
32. Schlagenheim - Black Midi (HIGHER)
33. I Am Easy to Find - The National (HIGHER)
34. The Highwomen - The Highwomen (HIGHER)
35. Immunity - Clairo (HIGHER)
36. Free Spirit - Khalid (HIGHER)
37. Ventura - Anderson .Paak
38. Designer - Aldous Harding (HIGHER)
39. Dedicated - Carly Rae Jepsen (LOWER)
40. Pony - Orville Peck
41. Assume Form - James Blake (LOWER)
42. Pang - Caroline Polachek (HIGHER)
43. Young Enough - Charly Bliss (HIGHER)
44. Thanks for the Dance - Leonard Cohen (LOWER)
45. Sound & Fury - Sturgill Simpson (LOWER)
46. Charli - Charli XCX (LOWER)
47. Crushing - Julia Jacklin (HIGHER)
48. Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery - The Comet is Calling (HIGHER)
49. Zuu - Denzel Curry (LOWER)
50. uknowhatimsayin? - Danny Brown
51. Bandana - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
52. Wildcard - Miranda Lambert (HIGHER)
53. Heard It in a Past Life - Maggie Rogers (LOWER)
54. Fever - Megan Thee Stallion (HIGHER)
55. No Home Record - Kim Gordon (HIGHER)
56. Basking in the Glow - Oso Oso (LOWER)
57. Anak Ko - Jay Som (LOWER)
58. Over It - Summer Walker (LOWER)
59. Quiet Signs - Jessica Pratt (HIGHER)
60. House of Sugar - (Sandy) Alex G (HIGHER)
61. Reward - Cate Le Bon (HIGHER)
62. Help Us Stranger - The Raconteurs (HIGHER)
63. Beware of the Dogs - Stella Donnelly (HIGHER)
64. The Return - Sampa the Great
65. Hidden History of the Human Race - Blood Incantation (HIGHER)
66. While I'm Livin' - Tanya Tucker (LOWER)
67. Two Hands - Big Thief (LOWER)
68. Closer to Grey - Chromatics (HIGHER)
69. Grey Area - Little Simz (HIGHER)
70. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
71. Walk Through Fire - Yola
72. Emily Alone - Florist (HIGHER)
73. Infest the Rats' Nest - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (LOWER)
74. Psychodrama - Dave (LOWER)
75. Atlanta Millionaires Club - Faye Webster
76. Everyday Life - Coldplay (LOWER)
77. PUNK - Chai (HIGHER)
78. African Giant - Burna Boy
79. Ode to Joy - Wilco (LOWER)
80. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest - Bill Callahan (LOWER)
81. Kiwanuka - Michael Kiwanuka
82. Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial - Roddy Ricch
83. We Are Not Your Kind - Slipknot
84. Ilana (The Creator) - Mdou Moctar
85. In Cauda Venenum - Opeth
86. DeAnn - Zach Bryan
87. All My Heroes Are Cornballs - JPEGMAFIA
88. MJ Lenderman - MJ Lenderman
89. The Livelong Day - Lankum
90. Amyl & The Sniffers - Amyl & The Sniffers
91. This Land - Gary Clark Jr.
92. The Best of Luck Club - Alex Lahey (LOWER)
93. Hadestown - original Broadway cast
94. Sonic Citadel - Lightning Bolt (LOWER)
95. Morbid Stuff - PUP
96. Athena - Sudan Archives
97. Home - Billy Strings
98. In the End - The Cranberries
99. Hyperspace - Beck (LOWER)
100. Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent - Lewis Capaldi (LOWER)


CUTS
35. Nothing Great About Britain - Slowthai
46. Let's Rock - The Black Keys
48. Baby on Baby - DaBaby
52. Ginger - Brockhampton
57. No. 6 Collaborations Project - Ed Sheeran
62. The Center Won't Hold - Sleater-Kinney
71. Hurts 2B Human - Pink
74. Social Cues - Cage the Elephant
75. DNA - Backstreet Boys
80. Die a Legend - Polo G
85. Green Balloon - Tank and the Bangas
87. Ghosts of the Forest - Trey Anastasio
92. Thrashing Thru the Passion - The Hold Steady
97. American Football LP3 - American Football
98. Covert Contracts - Control Top
99. Eton Alive - Sleaford Mods

[ManPerson]

Some albums I'd add for 2017-2018
Saturation - Solid acclaim and popularity
All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ - Ditto
TA13OO - Ditto
Playboi Carti - Strong popularity and some acclaim as well
Freudian - I was thinking this could move up actually, strong popularity and some acclaim as well.
17 - A bit less popular than ? but pretty similar credentials otherwise
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Highly popular with decent reviews as well

I could see Cigarettes for Sex higher as well, maybe in the 40-50 range, considering it has solid reviews and very strong lasting popularity (over 5 million daily streams).

[Ryan]

Some albums I'd add for 2017-2018
Saturation - Solid acclaim and popularity
All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ - Ditto
TA13OO - Ditto
Playboi Carti - Strong popularity and some acclaim as well
Freudian - I was thinking this could move up actually, strong popularity and some acclaim as well.
17 - A bit less popular than ? but pretty similar credentials otherwise
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Highly popular with decent reviews as well

I could see Cigarettes for Sex higher as well, maybe in the 40-50 range, considering it has solid reviews and very strong lasting popularity (over 5 million daily streams).

Made all these changes, and 2019 is also now up.

[ManPerson]

I'd keep Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent on the 2019 list due to its very strong popularity and I'd add Hot Pink for the same reason.

[ManPerson]

I'd keep Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent on the 2019 list due to its very strong popularity and I'd add Hot Pink for the same reason.

Also I'd add Playboi Carti's self titled mixtape to the 2017 list, probably a bit lower than where I have Die Lit on the 2018 list.

[Ryan]

Done and done.

How does everything look now? What are your thoughts about the additions to the lists?