50 Best Albums of 2016 - Rolling Stone

1. Beyonce - 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