Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 by 
travelful 
2016 snapshot
Every album I listen to will be included on here, even if I hated it. You may also notice some higher rated albums in the comments, while some albums I hated are still featured in the chart. This is because I create my yearly charts as "snapshots" of the music scene from that year. From these I create my decade charts, where you will find no filler. Basically anything rated 60% or higher I recommend depending on your tastes.
other projects heard in 2016:
2 Chainz - COLLEGROVE - 5/10
6LACK - 'Free 6LACK' - 6/10
Animal Collective - Painting With' - 4/10
American Football - 'American Football (2016)' - 5/10
Anohni - 'Hopelessness' - 5/10
Aphex Twin - 'Cheetah EP' - 6/10
Arca - 'Entrañas' - 4/10
Ariana Grande - 'Dangerous Woman' - 4/10
A$ap Mob = 'Cozy Tapes Vol.1: Friends' - 6/10
Black Mountain - 'IV' - 6/10
Bruno Mars - '24k Magic' - 1/10
Bladee - 'Eversince' - 6.5/1
Common - 'Black America Again' - 6/10
D.R.A.M - 'Big Baby D.R.A.M.' - 5/10
Emily Jane White - 'They Moved In Shadow All Together' - 6.5/10
Emma Ruth Rundle - 'Marked For Death' - 6/10
Explosions In The Sky - 'The Wilderness' - 5.5/10
아버지 [father] - 'Reflection' - 6.5/10
Flume - 'Skin' - 5/10
Gidge - 'Lulin' - 5/10
Gucci Mane - 'WOPTOBER' - 7/10
Gucci Mane - 'The Return of East Atlanta Santa' - 7/10
haircuts for men - '大理石のファンタジー' - 6/10
Huerco S. - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) - 6/10
青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba] - 'マホロボシヤ (Mahoroboshiya)' - 7/10
Jay Som - 'Turn Into' - 6/10
Joey Purp - ;iiiDrops' - 5.5/10
Leon Vynehall - 'Rojus (Designed to Dance)' - 6/10
Local Natives - 'Sunlit Youth' - 5/10
Logic - 'Bobby Tarantino' - 3/10
Matt Elliot - 'The Calm Before' - 6.5/10
MIA - 'AIM' - 3.5/10
Mr. Fingers - 'Outer Acid EP' - 7/10
NxWorries - 'Yes Lawd!' - 6.5/10
Nicolas Jaar - 'Sirens' - 6/10
PJ Harvey - 'The Hope Six Demolition Project' - 5.5/10
Preoccupations - 'Preoccupations' - 6/10
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'The Getaway' - 6/10
Regina Spektor - 'Remember Us To Life' - 7.5/10
Saba -'Bucket List Project' - 6.5/10
Sims - 'More Than Ever' - 7.5/10
Ski Mask the Slump God - 'Drown-in-Designer' - 6/10
$uicideBoys$ - 'Dark Side Of The Clouds' - 7.5/10
The Drones - 'Feelin Kinda Free' - 7/10
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - 'Bes' - 6.5/10
The Field - 'The Follower' - 5/10
The Frightnrs - 'Nothing More to Say' - 6.5/10
The Lumineers - 'Cleopatra' - 4/10
The Underachievers - 'It Happened In Flatbush' - 6.5/10
Weezer - '(The White Album)' - 6.5/10
Wilco - Schmilco - 6/10
Wiz Khalifa - 'Khalifa' - 3/10
Woods - 'City Sun Eater In The River Of Light' - 7/10
Young Thug - 'Slime Season 3' - 7/10
Yussef Kamaal - 'Black Focus' - 5.5/10
Yves Tumor - 'Serpent Music' - 6/10
- Chart updated: 03/14/2025 19:15
- (Created: 12/15/2017 03:31).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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10 Day and Acid Rap are two of the greatest mixtapes of all time, easily. Coloring Book was not the direction I expected him to take. I never thought Chance would end up making crappy party songs with 2 Chainz and Lil Yachty, he seemed to take pride in his unique approach to hip-hop. I hope working with Kanye so much and becoming a household name doesn't shift his sound permanently into what we got with Coloring Book. Acid Rap and 10 Day were amazing because it was something different. I guess only time will tell.
With that said, Coloring book wasn't awful by any means, it has some highlights for sure like Same Drugs, or both of the Blessings tracks. It's just filled with a lot of shitty party tracks like All night and Mixtape. It takes a gospel approach on many songs which was obviously Kanye's idea after making Ultralight Beam, except none of the tracks on CB were even remotely as good as Ultralight Beam. Even Chance's verse on Ultralight Beam was better than basically all of his verses on here.
He has a lot of talent, I hope going mainstream doesn't mean he's just going to start following the rest of the mainstream. He has enough personality and talent to be one of the pioneers in hip-hop and be a trend starter like Kanye as opposed to following trends Kanye (or others) already started.
light - decent 6 [First added to this chart: 03/30/2019]
10 Day and Acid Rap are two of the greatest mixtapes of all time, easily. Coloring Book was not the direction I expected him to take. I never thought Chance would end up making crappy party songs with 2 Chainz and Lil Yachty, he seemed to take pride in his unique approach to hip-hop. I hope working with Kanye so much and becoming a household name doesn't shift his sound permanently into what we got with Coloring Book. Acid Rap and 10 Day were amazing because it was something different. I guess only time will tell.
With that said, Coloring book wasn't awful by any means, it has some highlights for sure like Same Drugs, or both of the Blessings tracks. It's just filled with a lot of shitty party tracks like All night and Mixtape. It takes a gospel approach on many songs which was obviously Kanye's idea after making Ultralight Beam, except none of the tracks on CB were even remotely as good as Ultralight Beam. Even Chance's verse on Ultralight Beam was better than basically all of his verses on here.
He has a lot of talent, I hope going mainstream doesn't mean he's just going to start following the rest of the mainstream. He has enough personality and talent to be one of the pioneers in hip-hop and be a trend starter like Kanye as opposed to following trends Kanye (or others) already started.
light - decent 6 [First added to this chart: 03/30/2019]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 composition
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| Frank Ocean | 2 | 2% | |
| Glass Animals | 1 | 1% | |
| Kevin Abstract | 1 | 1% | |
| Post Malone | 1 | 1% | |
| Beyoncé | 1 | 1% | |
| Jamila Woods | 1 | 1% | |
| Kid Cudi | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 chart changes
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| Down 1 from 34th to 35th Everybody Looking by Gucci Mane |
| Down 1 from 35th to 36th 2 The Sky by DJ Metatron |
| Down 1 from 36th to 37th Jeffery by Young Thug |
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 In The Nightby Charley Crockett |
| Leavers |
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 Splendor & Miseryby Clipping. |
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| 100/100 | 12/22/2020 19:53 |  Repo | | 100/100 |
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Repo 12/22/2020 19:54
Yikes! That's a lot of killer hip hop! I may have to vote for you! lol.
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