Top Albums of 2016
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
1
72
 David Bowie ★ [Blackstar] Art Rock
2
114
 Frank Ocean Blonde Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
3
125
 Beyoncé Lemonade Contemporary R&B, Pop
4
167
 Solange A Seat at the Table Neo-Soul
5
285
 Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool Art Pop, Art Rock, Chamber Pop
6
359
 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree Art Rock, Singer/Songwriter
7
505
 Rihanna Anti Alternative R&B
8
511
 A Tribe Called Quest We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
9
627
 Angel Olsen My Woman Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
10
640
 Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
11
777
 Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial Indie Rock
12
805
 Anderson .Paak Malibu Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
13
832
 Bon Iver 22, A Million Art Pop
14
916
 Mitski Puberty 2 Indie Rock
15
961
 ANOHNI Hopelessness Art Pop, Electropop
16
981
 Chance the Rapper Coloring Book Conscious Hip Hop, Pop Rap
17
1252
 Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
18
1465
 Kaytranada 99.9% Alternative R&B, Funky House
19
1562
 Kanye West The Life of Pablo Pop Rap
20
1653
 Blood Orange Freetown Sound Alternative R&B, Synth Funk
21
1961
 Skepta Konnichiwa Grime, UK Hip Hop
22
2052
 Jenny Hval Blood Bitch Ambient Pop, Art Pop
23
2278
 PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project Alternative Rock, Art Rock
24
2290
 Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate Singer/Songwriter, Soul
25
2371
 Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide to Earth Alt-Country, Country Soul
26
2373
 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
27
2387
 Kate Tempest Let Them Eat Chaos Conscious Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop, UK Hip Hop
28
2545
 Parquet Courts Human Performance Indie Rock
29
2617
 Whitney Light Upon the Lake Indie Folk, Indie Rock
30
2660
 The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It Pop Rock, Synthpop
31
2696
 James Blake The Colour in Anything Alternative R&B, Art Pop
32
2796
 Huerco S. For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) Ambient
33
2851
 Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
34
2927
 Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Alternative Rock
35
2960
 Childish Gambino Awaken, My Love! Funk, Neo-Soul, Psychedelic Soul

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Kevin Morby Singing Saw Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
The Avalanches Wildflower Plunderphonics
Margo Price Midwest Farmer's Daughter Country
Nicolas Jaar Sirens Ambient Pop, Art Pop
BADBADNOTGOOD IV Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz
Savages Adore Life Post-Punk
Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth Psychedelic Folk
Miranda Lambert The Weight of These Wings Contemporary Country
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 Hardcore Hip Hop
Andy Shauf The Party Chamber Pop, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Neko Case/k.d. lang/Laura Veirs case/lang/veirs Chamber Folk
Jessy Lanza Oh No Alternative R&B, Synthpop, UK Bass
Drive-By Truckers American Band Alt-Country, Southern Rock
Noname Telefone Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Oranssi Pazuzu Varahtelija Black Metal, Psychedelic Rock
PUP The Dream is Over Pop Punk, Post-Hardcore
Young Thug JEFFERY Southern Hip Hop, Trap
The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love Indie Pop, Synthpop
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ears Progressive Electronic
DIIV Is The Is Are Dream Pop, Post-Punk
Gojira Magma Groove Metal, Progressive Metal
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro Salve discordia Indie Rock, Noise Pop
Lambchop FLOTUS Indietronica
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Chamber Pop, Indie Rock
YG Still Brazy Gangsta Rap
Wilco Schmilco Alt-Country, Indie Rock
Babyfather BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow Experimental Hip Hop
Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger Art Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Swans The Glowing Man Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
Cass McCombs Mangy Love Singer/Songwriter
Metallica Hardwired...to Self-Destruct Heavy Metal
Drake Views Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
Touché Amoré Stage Four Screamo
Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20 Americana, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Ryley Walker Golden Sings That Have Been Sung Chamber Folk, Psychedelic Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Tim Hecker Love Streams Ambient, Glitch
Isolation Berlin Und aus den Wolken tropft die Zeit Indie Pop
KING We Are KING Contemporary R&B
Pinegrove Cardinal Indie Rock
Preoccupations Preoccupations Post-Punk
The Last Shadow Puppets Everything You've Come to Expect Chamber Pop, Indie Rock
The Hotelier Goodness Indie Rock
ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP Gangsta Rap
Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Twee Pop
White Lung Paradise Punk Rock
Inter Arma Paradise Gallows Death Doom Metal, Sludge Metal
Underworld Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future Progressive House
Every Time I Die Low Teens Mathcore
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas Mariner Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal
Maren Morris Hero Country Pop, Pop Rock
Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Art Pop, Jazz Fusion
Teenage Fanclub Here Jangle Pop
The Weeknd Starboy Alternative R&B, Electropop
Common Black America Again Conscious Hip Hop
Anna Meredith Varmints Art Pop, Progressive Electronic
Thee Oh Sees A Weird Exits Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Zeal and Ardor Devil Is Fine Avant-Garde Metal, Spirituals
La Femme Mystere French Pop, Indie Pop
Deftones Gore Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock
The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome Blues Rock, British Blues
Princess Nokia 1992/1992 Deluxe Trap
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us Grindcore, Powerviolence
Moderat III IDM, Indietronica
Goat Requiem Psychedelic Rock
Bat for Lashes The Bride Art Pop
Suede Night Thoughts Britpop
Suuns Hold/Still Art Rock
Kamaiyah A Good Night in the Ghetto Hip Hop
Daughter Not to Disappear Art Pop, Dream Pop
21 Savage & Metro Boomin Savage Mode Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Maxwell blackSUMMERS'night Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
Cobalt Slow Forever Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Black Metal
Shura Nothing's Real Dance-Pop, Synthpop
Autechre elseq 1-5 IDM
Nao For All We Know Alternative R&B, Electropop
NxWorries Yes Lawd! Neo-Soul
Yussef Kamaal Black Focus Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk
Ian William Craig Centres Ambient
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things OST [Volume 1 & 2] Synthwave, Television Music
Charles Bradley Changes Soul
De La Soul And the Anonymous Nobody Conscious Hip Hop
Glass Animals How to Be a Human Being Art Pop, Indietronica
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation Mathcore
Hinds Leave Me Alone Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Oathbreaker Rheia Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Blackgaze
The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood Psychedelic Pop
Roly Porter Third Law Dark Ambient
Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Alternative Rock
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death Dream Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade Conscious Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop
Wild Beasts Boy King Art Pop, Synthpop
Equiknoxx Bird Sound Power Juke
Julia Jacklin Don't Let the Kids Win Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Shirley Collins Lodestar English Folk Music
Julianna Barwick Will Ambient, Ambient Pop
Kano Made in the Manor Grime, UK Hip Hop
Tegan and Sara Love You to Death Synthpop
Lady Gaga Joanne Pop Rock, Pop Soul
William Tyler Modern Country American Primitivism
Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines Folk Rock
Warpaint Heads Up Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Frank Ocean Endless Alternative R&B, Ambient Pop, Art Pop
Laura Mvula The Dreaming Room Art Pop
Gold Panda Good Luck and Do Your Best IDM, Microhouse
School of Seven Bells SVIIB Dream Pop, Synthpop
Neurosis Fires Within Fires Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Agnes Obel Citizen of Glass Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Flume Skin Glitch Pop, Wonky
Brian Eno The Ship Ambient
Let's Eat Grandma I, Gemini Ambient Pop, Art Pop, Psychedelic Pop
The Drones Feelin Kinda Free Art Rock
Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness Post-Rock
Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings Alternative Rock, Punk Rock
Kevin Gates Islah Pop Rap, Southern Hip Hop
The Fat White Family Songs for Our Mothers Art Punk, Psychedelic Rock
Get Well Soon Love Chamber Pop
Metronomy Summer 08 Alternative Dance, Indietronica, Synthpop
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. Indie Rock, Pop Punk, Power Pop
Elysia Crampton Demon City Latin Electronic, UK Bass
Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation Electropop
Oren Ambarchi Hubris Krautrock
Death Grips Bottomless Pit Abstract Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop
Noura Mint Seymali Arbina Moorish Music
Hiss Golden Messenger Heart Like a Levee Americana, Folk Rock
Meilyr Jones 2013 Art Pop, Chamber Pop
M83 Junk Synthpop
Weezer Weezer [The White Album] Alternative Rock, Power Pop
Lydia Loveless Real Alt-Country, Pop Rock
D.D Dumbo Utopia Defeated Art Pop, Indie Pop
Jamila Woods HEAVN Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions Until the Hunter Dream Pop, Psychedelic Folk
The Comet Is Coming Channel the Spirits Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz, Space Rock
Bob Mould Patch the Sky Alternative Rock
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid Abstract Hip Hop
Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight Trap
Andy Stott Too Many Voices UK Bass
Marissa Nadler Strangers Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Leon Vynehall Rojus Deep House
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop
Juventud Juché Movimientos Art Punk, Post-Punk
Ka Honor Killed the Samurai Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Russian Circles Guidance Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal, Post-Rock
Denzel Curry Imperial Southern Hip Hop, Trap