No Frank Ocean. No James Blake. No Radiohead. So what did make the cut in our rundown of the greatest album releases of 2016? From euphoric rap to vampiric avant-pop, this year’s list is proof ...

Here it is: NME's 50 best albums of 2016. This rundown of 50 brilliant 2016 albums just goes to show that while most stuff that happened in 2016 was just... 10. Love 9. Girls If Lena Dunham ...

From sprawling hip-hop opuses to haunting rock’n’roll swansongs, a handful of posthumous albums stand out among hundreds of ...

For his first album in 11 years (and after a retirement from music in 2016, which he quickly backed ... their last album a Grammy nomination in the Best Progressive R&B category), with constantly ...

The ultimate 50 best albums of 2016: We crunched every end-of-year poll into one mega list It's now far enough into 2016 that all of the end of year lists are out – including NME's own 50 best ...

Without further comment, let us begin with the best album of 2023 ... Since his emergence with the '88 mixtape in 2016 and the acclaimed "Return of the Cool," this artist from South Carolina ...

Here's the shortlist of our discussions: the 12 best albums we've encountered during the past year – albums which demonstrate just how intently musicians have been listening, in 2016 ...

We've named Badbadnotgood's IV our Album of the Year 2016. It’s got enough space in ... a masterful swansong from one of the greatest artists who ever walked among us." - Mary Ann Hobbs ...

Could Pink Friday 2 help Nicki Minaj tie Missy Elliott as the female rapper with the most Grammy nominations for best rap ...

Greatest hit: Akon owns two Number One hits, both from “Konvicted”: “I Wanna Love You” (with Snoop Dogg) and “Don’t Matter.” ...

With all of this year’s extracurricular music stories – Charli XCX painting summer lime green with the Brat phenomenon; Taylor Swift taking her unstoppable Eras tour to Europe; Kendrick Lamar ...

but ‘Originals’ is the best of them (Getty Images) There have been three posthumously released Prince albums since his death in 2016, not including compilations and reissues. The best of them ...