Favorite album by year 1950-2017

2017 Lorde | Melodrama

2016 Beyoncé | Lemonade

2015 Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly

2014 D'Angelo and The Vanguard | Black Messiah

2013 Daft Punk | Random Access Memories

2012 Miguel | Kaleidoscope Dream

2011 Adele | 21

2010 Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2009 Maxwell | BLACKsummers'night

2008 Duffy | Rockferry

2007 Herbie Hancock | River: The Joni Letters

2006 Amy Winehouse | Back to Black

2005 Madonna | Confessions on a Dance Floor

2004 Green Day | American Idiot

2003 The White Stripes | Elephant

2002 Beck | Sea Change

2001 Jay-Z | The Blueprint

2000 Eminem | The Marshall Mathers LP

1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication

1998 Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

1997 Radiohead | OK Computer

1996 2Pac | All Eyez on Me

1995 Oasis | (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

1994 Nas | Illmatic

1993 Nirvana | In Utero

1992 Dr. Dre | The Chronic

1991 Pearl Jam | Ten

1990 Depeche Mode | Violator

1989 Janet Jackson | Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

1988 Public Enemy | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

1987 U2 | The Joshua Tree

1986 The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead

1985 Whitney Houston | Whitney Houston

1984 Prince & The Revolution | Purple Rain

1983 R.E.M. | Murmur

1982 Michael Jackson | Thriller

1981 The Police | Ghost in the Machine

1980 Joy Division | Closer

1979 The Clash | London Calling

1978 Van Halen | Van Halen

1977 Billy Joel | The Stranger

1976 Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life

1975 Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run

1974 Joni Mitchell | Court and Spark

1973 Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon

1972 The Rolling Stones | Exile on Main St.

1971 Marvin Gaye | What's Going On

1970 Neil Young | After the Gold Rush

1969 Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin

1968 The Beatles | The Beatles ("The White Album")

1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced

1966 The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds

1965 Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited

1964 Sam Cooke | Ain't That Good News

1963 Charles Mingus | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

1962 Ray Charles | Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

1961 Robert Johnson | King Of The Delta Blues Singers

1960 John Coltrane | Giant Steps

1959 Miles Davis | Kind of Blue

1958 Billie Holiday | Lady in Satin

1957 The Crickets | The "Chirping" Crickets

1956 Elvis Presley | Elvis

1955 Frank Sinatra | In the Wee Small Hours

1954 Chet Baker | Chet Baker Sings

1953 Peggy Lee | Black Coffee

1952 various artists | Anthology of American Folk Music

1951 Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1

1950 Charlie Parker | Charlie Parker with Strings