Best Albums Of 2016 Lists

[CRAZY-HORSE]

good to see Sturgill Simpson in a list!

[Music Head]

from Billboard
reflecting U.S. sales for the year

1. Adele - 25
2. Drake - Views
3. Justin Bieber - Purpose
4. Beyonce - Lemonade
5. Rihanna - Anti
6. Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
7. Chris Stapleton - Traveller
8. One Direction - Made In The A.M.
9. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
10. Original Broadway Cast - Hamilton: An American Musical
11. Bryson Tiller - Trapsoul
12. G-Eazy - When It's Dark Out
13. Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams
14. Prince - Very Best Of
15. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
16. Kevin Gates - Islah
17. Taylor Swift - 1989
18. Selena Gomez - Revival
19. Sam Hunt - Montevallo
20. Sountrack - Suicide Squad: The Album
21. Thomas Rhett - Tangled Up
22. Sia - This Is Acting
23. Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor
24. Adele - 21
25. Drake & Future - What A Time To Be Alive

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from Pitchfork

1. Solange - A Seat At The Table
2. Frank Ocean - Blond
3. Beyonce - Lemonade
4. David Bowie - Blackstar
5. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
6. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
7. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
8. Anohni - Hopelessness
9. Angel Olsen - My Woman
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
11. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
12. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
13. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
14. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
16. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
17. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
18. Mitski - Puberty 2
19. Rihanna - Anti
20. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
21. Young Thug - Jeffery
22. YG - Still Brazy
23. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
24. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
25. Kaytranada - 99.9%

[CRAZY-HORSE]

seriously,
Beyoncé is better than Bowie, Christ Almighty!

even Bowie at his worst is better than that surely!

[Music Head]

from Guardian

1. Beyonce - Lemonade
2. Frank Ocean - Blond
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
5. Solange - A Seat At The Table
6. Anohni - Hopelessness
7. Rihanni - Anti
8. Christine And The Queens - Chaleur Humaine
9. Skepta - Konnichiwa
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
11. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
12. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
13. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
14. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
15. Avalanches - Wildflower
16. King - We Are King
17. Mitski - Puberty 2
18. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
19. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
20. Drake - Views
21. Angel Olsen - My Woman
22. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
23. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
24. The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
25. Young Thug - Jeffery

[bob_32_116]

the top radio stations both here in Australia and the UK (back then here in Perth the top pop stations were 6PM and 6IX, remember them bob_32, one is now called
96FM, the other 1080 6IX)...

Ummm, well that history is not quite right, though I dare say you and I are the only ones on this board who would care about such details...

6PM moved to the FM band and became "Hit 92.9", which I prefer to call Shit 92.9.

6IX is still an AM station under that same name.

What used to be 6KY is now MIX 94.5 fm.

96fm has always been an FM station, it was one of the very first in Perth. Except for a short period when it temporarily changed its name to MMM, it has always been 96fm.

I used to listen to 96fm faithfully, but of recent years they seem to have dropped the ball and I now find them deadly dull.

[bob_32_116]

As soon as I see any list with Beyonce at No. 1, or even in the top 5, reading the list becomes merely an exercise in amusement.

I don't like Solange's music enough to buy it, but good heavens she is way better than her sister.

The only album on any of those lists that I have bought is the Radiohead one, and that situation is not likely to change.

I'll have to check my collection to verify this, but I believe I have actually only bought two albums that were released in 2016: "A Moon Shaped Pool" by Radiohead, and the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration live album.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Ummm, well that history is not quite right, though I dare say you and I are the only ones on this board who would care about such details...

6PM moved to the FM band and became "Hit 92.9", which I prefer to call Shit 92.9.

6IX is still an AM station under that same name.

What used to be 6KY is now MIX 94.5 fm.

96fm has always been an FM station, it was one of the very first in Perth. Except for a short period when it temporarily changed its name to MMM, it has always been 96fm.

I used to listen to 96fm faithfully, but of recent years they seem to have dropped the ball and I now find them deadly dull.

thanks for that bob_32, my memory obviously fails me at times!!!!
I usually start the week with CurtinFM (100.1FM) and switch channels each day otherwise I get the same songs on every channel constantly...
I rarely listen to TripleJ but on occasion when they play alternative music instead of the "doof doof" niose i'll keep it on...
occasionally, ABC for a change of pace, even 6PR (but rarely since Bob Maumill and Howard Sattler retired.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

NME's top20albums of 2016:

1. The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
2. Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
3. Christine And The Queens – Chaleur Humaine
4. Skepta – Konnichiwa
5. Kaytranada – 99.9%
6. David Bowie – Blackstar
7. Diiv – Is The Is Are
8. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
9. Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
10. Frank Ocean – Blonde
11. Beyonce – Lemonade
12. Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
13. Angel Olsen – My Woman
14. Jamie T – Trick
15. Kano – Made In The Manor
16. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
17. Drake - Views
18. Tegan And Sara – Love You To Death
19. White Lung – Paradise
20. Lady Gaga – Joanne

DAMN!
with all the new releases I listened to this year, I haven't heard of most of these ones,
i'll try to listen to a couple over the next few days!

[Music Head]

^^
lol
at least pick one I didn't already post