Top Albums of 2016
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid Abstract Hip Hop
Ka Honor Killed the Samurai Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Death Grips Bottomless Pit Abstract Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop
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2371
 Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide to Earth Alt-Country, Country Soul
Wilco Schmilco Alt-Country, Indie Rock
Lydia Loveless Real Alt-Country, Pop Rock
Drive-By Truckers American Band Alt-Country, Southern Rock
Metronomy Summer 08 Alternative Dance, Indietronica, Synthpop
Deftones Gore Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock
7
505
 Rihanna Anti Alternative R&B
Frank Ocean Endless Alternative R&B, Ambient Pop, Art Pop
31
2696
 James Blake The Colour in Anything Alternative R&B, Art Pop
The Weeknd Starboy Alternative R&B, Electropop
Nao For All We Know Alternative R&B, Electropop
18
1465
 Kaytranada 99.9% Alternative R&B, Funky House
2
114
 Frank Ocean Blonde Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
12
805
 Anderson .Paak Malibu Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
Jamila Woods HEAVN Alternative R&B, Neo-Soul
20
1653
 Blood Orange Freetown Sound Alternative R&B, Synth Funk
Jessy Lanza Oh No Alternative R&B, Synthpop, UK Bass
34
2927
 Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Alternative Rock
Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Alternative Rock
Bob Mould Patch the Sky Alternative Rock
23
2278
 PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project Alternative Rock, Art Rock
Weezer Weezer [The White Album] Alternative Rock, Power Pop
Beach Slang A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings Alternative Rock, Punk Rock
32
2796
 Huerco S. For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) Ambient
Ian William Craig Centres Ambient
Brian Eno The Ship Ambient
Julianna Barwick Will Ambient, Ambient Pop
Tim Hecker Love Streams Ambient, Glitch
22
2052
 Jenny Hval Blood Bitch Ambient Pop, Art Pop
Nicolas Jaar Sirens Ambient Pop, Art Pop
Let's Eat Grandma I, Gemini Ambient Pop, Art Pop, Psychedelic Pop
William Tyler Modern Country American Primitivism
Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20 Americana, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Hiss Golden Messenger Heart Like a Levee Americana, Folk Rock
13
832
 Bon Iver 22, A Million Art Pop
Bat for Lashes The Bride Art Pop
Laura Mvula The Dreaming Room Art Pop
5
285
 Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool Art Pop, Art Rock, Chamber Pop
Meilyr Jones 2013 Art Pop, Chamber Pop
Daughter Not to Disappear Art Pop, Dream Pop
15
961
 ANOHNI Hopelessness Art Pop, Electropop
D.D Dumbo Utopia Defeated Art Pop, Indie Pop
Glass Animals How to Be a Human Being Art Pop, Indietronica
Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Art Pop, Jazz Fusion
Anna Meredith Varmints Art Pop, Progressive Electronic
Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger Art Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Wild Beasts Boy King Art Pop, Synthpop
Juventud Juché Movimientos Art Punk, Post-Punk
The Fat White Family Songs for Our Mothers Art Punk, Psychedelic Rock
1
72
 David Bowie ★ [Blackstar] Art Rock
Suuns Hold/Still Art Rock
The Drones Feelin Kinda Free Art Rock
6
359
 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree Art Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Neurosis Fires Within Fires Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Cobalt Slow Forever Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Black Metal
Oathbreaker Rheia Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Blackgaze
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas Mariner Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal
Russian Circles Guidance Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal, Post-Rock
Zeal and Ardor Devil Is Fine Avant-Garde Metal, Spirituals
Oranssi Pazuzu Varahtelija Black Metal, Psychedelic Rock
The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome Blues Rock, British Blues
Suede Night Thoughts Britpop
Neko Case/k.d. lang/Laura Veirs case/lang/veirs Chamber Folk
Ryley Walker Golden Sings That Have Been Sung Chamber Folk, Psychedelic Folk, Singer/Songwriter
10
640
 Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Get Well Soon Love Chamber Pop
Andy Shauf The Party Chamber Pop, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Chamber Pop, Indie Rock
The Last Shadow Puppets Everything You've Come to Expect Chamber Pop, Indie Rock
Agnes Obel Citizen of Glass Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Common Black America Again Conscious Hip Hop
De La Soul And the Anonymous Nobody Conscious Hip Hop
8
511
 A Tribe Called Quest We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
33
2851
 Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Noname Telefone Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
27
2387
 Kate Tempest Let Them Eat Chaos Conscious Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop, UK Hip Hop
16
981
 Chance the Rapper Coloring Book Conscious Hip Hop, Pop Rap
Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade Conscious Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop
Miranda Lambert The Weight of These Wings Contemporary Country
Marissa Nadler Strangers Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
KING We Are KING Contemporary R&B
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop
Maxwell blackSUMMERS'night Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
3
125
 Beyoncé Lemonade Contemporary R&B, Pop
Drake Views Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
Margo Price Midwest Farmer's Daughter Country
Maren Morris Hero Country Pop, Pop Rock
Shura Nothing's Real Dance-Pop, Synthpop
Roly Porter Third Law Dark Ambient
Inter Arma Paradise Gallows Death Doom Metal, Sludge Metal
Leon Vynehall Rojus Deep House
Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Warpaint Heads Up Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
DIIV Is The Is Are Dream Pop, Post-Punk
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions Until the Hunter Dream Pop, Psychedelic Folk
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death Dream Pop, Singer/Songwriter
School of Seven Bells SVIIB Dream Pop, Synthpop
Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation Electropop
Shirley Collins Lodestar English Folk Music
Babyfather BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow Experimental Hip Hop
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1252
 Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
Swans The Glowing Man Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines Folk Rock
Kevin Morby Singing Saw Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
La Femme Mystere French Pop, Indie Pop
35
2960
 Childish Gambino Awaken, My Love! Funk, Neo-Soul, Psychedelic Soul
YG Still Brazy Gangsta Rap
ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP Gangsta Rap
26
2373
 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Thee Oh Sees A Weird Exits Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Flume Skin Glitch Pop, Wonky
21
1961
 Skepta Konnichiwa Grime, UK Hip Hop
Kano Made in the Manor Grime, UK Hip Hop
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us Grindcore, Powerviolence
Gojira Magma Groove Metal, Progressive Metal
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 Hardcore Hip Hop
Metallica Hardwired...to Self-Destruct Heavy Metal
Kamaiyah A Good Night in the Ghetto Hip Hop
Autechre elseq 1-5 IDM
Moderat III IDM, Indietronica
Gold Panda Good Luck and Do Your Best IDM, Microhouse
29
2617
 Whitney Light Upon the Lake Indie Folk, Indie Rock
Julia Jacklin Don't Let the Kids Win Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Isolation Berlin Und aus den Wolken tropft die Zeit Indie Pop
The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love Indie Pop, Synthpop
11
777
 Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial Indie Rock
14
916
 Mitski Puberty 2 Indie Rock
28
2545
 Parquet Courts Human Performance Indie Rock
Pinegrove Cardinal Indie Rock
The Hotelier Goodness Indie Rock
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro Salve discordia Indie Rock, Noise Pop
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. Indie Rock, Pop Punk, Power Pop
9
627
 Angel Olsen My Woman Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Lambchop FLOTUS Indietronica
Teenage Fanclub Here Jangle Pop
Yussef Kamaal Black Focus Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk
BADBADNOTGOOD IV Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz
The Comet Is Coming Channel the Spirits Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz, Space Rock
Equiknoxx Bird Sound Power Juke
Oren Ambarchi Hubris Krautrock
Elysia Crampton Demon City Latin Electronic, UK Bass
Hinds Leave Me Alone Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Every Time I Die Low Teens Mathcore
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation Mathcore
Noura Mint Seymali Arbina Moorish Music
4
167
 Solange A Seat at the Table Neo-Soul
NxWorries Yes Lawd! Neo-Soul
The Avalanches Wildflower Plunderphonics
PUP The Dream is Over Pop Punk, Post-Hardcore
19
1562
 Kanye West The Life of Pablo Pop Rap
Kevin Gates Islah Pop Rap, Southern Hip Hop
Lady Gaga Joanne Pop Rock, Pop Soul
30
2660
 The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It Pop Rock, Synthpop
Savages Adore Life Post-Punk
Preoccupations Preoccupations Post-Punk
Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness Post-Rock
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ears Progressive Electronic
Underworld Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future Progressive House
Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth Psychedelic Folk
The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood Psychedelic Pop
Goat Requiem Psychedelic Rock
White Lung Paradise Punk Rock
Touché Amoré Stage Four Screamo
Cass McCombs Mangy Love Singer/Songwriter
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2290
 Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate Singer/Songwriter, Soul
Charles Bradley Changes Soul
Young Thug JEFFERY Southern Hip Hop, Trap
21 Savage & Metro Boomin Savage Mode Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Denzel Curry Imperial Southern Hip Hop, Trap
Tegan and Sara Love You to Death Synthpop
M83 Junk Synthpop
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things OST [Volume 1 & 2] Synthwave, Television Music
Princess Nokia 1992/1992 Deluxe Trap
Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight Trap
Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Twee Pop
Andy Stott Too Many Voices UK Bass