The Best Music of 2016

All Songs Considered Listeners' Poll

All Songs Considered asked its listeners to tell us their favorite albums of 2016. Here are the top 100 vote-getters.

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1.

Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool

2.

Beyoncé
Lemonade

3.

David Bowie
Blackstar

4.

Bon Iver
22, A Million

5.

Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Denial

6.

Chance the Rapper
Coloring Book

7.

Frank Ocean
Blonde

8.

A Tribe Called Quest
We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service

9.

Anderson .Paak
Malibu

10.

Sturgill Simpson
A Sailor's Guide to Earth

11.

Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker

12.

Solange
A Seat at the Table

13.

Kanye West
The Life Of Pablo

14.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Skeleton Tree

15.

Angel Olsen
MY WOMAN

16.

Big Thief
Masterpiece

17.

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case/lang/veirs

18.

Pinegrove
Cardinal

19.

Mitski
Puberty 2

20.

Wilco
Schmilco

21.

Margaret Glaspy
Emotions And Math

22.

ZAYN
Mind Of Mine

23.

Margo Price
Midwest Farmer's Daughter

24.

Whitney
Light Upon the Lake

25.

Childish Gambino
"Awaken, My Love!"

26.

Andrew Bird
Are You Serious

27.

Drive-By Truckers
American Band

28.

Rihanna
Anti

29.

Blood Orange
Freetown Sound

30.

Glass Animals
How to Be a Human Being

31.

Paul Simon
Stranger to Stranger

32.

Conor Oberst
Ruminations

33.

James Blake
The Colour in Anything

34.

Parquet Courts
Human Performance

35.

Hiss Golden Messenger
Heart Like a Levee

36.

Iggy Pop
Post Pop Depression

37.

The Avett Brothers
True Sadness

38.

The 1975
I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

39.

Savages
Adore Life

40.

Various Artists
Hamilton Mixtape

41.

ANOHNI
Hopelessness

42.

Noname
Telefone

43.

Kishi Bashi
Sonderlust

44.

The Lumineers
Cleopatra

45.

Andy Shauf
The Party

46.

She Makes War
Direction of Travel

47.

Lucius
Good Grief

48.

Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

49.

Kendrick Lamar
untitled unmastered.

50.

Sia
This is Acting

51.

Lady Gaga
Joanne

52.

Kaytranada
99.9%

53.

Michael Kiwanuka
Love & Hate

54.

Jim James
Eternally Even

55.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
A Man Alive

56.

Lucy Dacus
No Burden

57.

Frightened Rabbit
Painting of a Panic Attack

58.

Band of Horses
Why Are You OK

59.

NAO
For All We Know

60.

The Rolling Stones
Blue and Lonesome

61.

The Avalanches
Wildflower

62.

Weezer
Weezer (The White Album)

63.

PJ Harvey
The Hope Six Demolition Project

64.

Shearwater
Jet Plane and Oxbow

65.

Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition

66.

Damien Jurado
Visions of Us on the Land

67.

Birdeatsbaby
Tanta Furia

68.

The Jayhawks
Paging Mr. Proust

69.

The Suffers
The Suffers

70.

The Weeknd
Starboy

71.

Esperanza Spalding
Emily's D+Evolution

72.

Dawes
We're All Gonna Die

73.

Lambchop
FLOTUS

74.

Ariana Grande
Dangerous Woman

75.

The Posies
Solid States

76.

Local Natives
Sunlit Youth

77.

NxWorries
Yes Lawd!

78.

Kevin Morby
Singing Saw

79.

Lake Street Dive
Side Pony

80.

Miranda Lambert
The Weight of These Wings

81.

Drake
Views

82.

Gallant
Ology

83.

Tedeschi Trucks Band
Let Me Get By

84.

M83
Junk

85.

DIIV
Is the is are

86.

Joseph
I'm Alone, No You're Not

87.

Tegan and Sara
Love You to Death

88.

Brandy Clark
Big Day in a Small Town

89.

Parker Millsap
The Very Last Day

90.

Cass McCombs
Mangy Love

91.

Regina Spektor
Remember Us to Life

92.

Flock of Dimes
If You See Me, Say Yes

93.

Maren Morris
HERO

94.

Frankie Cosmos
Next Thing

95.

Pixies
Head Carrier

96.

The Hotelier
Goodness

97.

Chris Staples
Golden Age

98.

Carly Rae Jepsen
Emotion Side B

99.

AURORA
All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

100.

Phish
Big Boat