Ichiko Aoba - アダンの風

youtube.com/watch?v=4JprPTHR808

Yukika - Soul Lady

youtube.com/watch?v=942NkXvAtAM

Taylor Swift - Folklore

youtube.com/watch?v=K-a8s8OLBSE

Ichiko Aoba - "gift" at Sogetsu Hall (Live)

youtube.com/watch?v=JBEIrbYqppU

The Weeknd - After Hours

youtube.com/watch?v=4NRXx6U8ABQ

BoA - BETTER

youtube.com/watch?v=fOxl2OIOVII

Jay Electronica - Act II: Patents of Nobility

Daoko - Anima

youtube.com/watch?v=c-W4TP9pJN4

Taylor Swift - evermore

youtube.com/watch?v=RsEZmictANA

Bbymutha - Muthaland

youtube.com/watch?v=VgPx1XsBlBk

HM:

Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
Pop Smoke - Meet The Woo 2
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Bad Bunny - El Último Tour del Mundo
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
2. Ichiko Aoba - アダンの風 (Adan no kaze)
3. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
4. Yves Tumour - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
5. Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
6. King Krule - Man Alive!
7. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
8. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
9. Charli XCX - How I’m Feeling Now
10. Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One

A far better year for music than 2018 and 2019 imo, especially for rap. I wanted to just do a few HMs initially but I couldn’t end up leaving any of these out just because I feel they’d be in a top 10 in so many other years:

1. Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind

2. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

3. Kevin Penkin - Made in Abyss : Dawn of the Deep Soul OST

4. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

5. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene

6. The Weeknd - After Hours

7. Freddie Gibbs / Alchemist - Alfredo

8. Polkadot Stingray - Nanimoto

9. Tricot - Black

10. Gorillaz - Song Machine: Season One

HMs:
Sault - Untitled (Rise)
Tkay Maidza - Last Year was Weird, Vol2
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake

Boldy James / Sterling Toles - Manger on McNichols

Curren$y/Harry Fraud - The Outrunners/Directors Cut

Hamza - Lonker See
G Herbo - PTSD

coming soon

Final list, it's actually been a really good year

So last week of releases ended so I am gonna do my top 5

1. Heaven To A Tortured Mind
2. What’s your pleasure
3. Punisher
4. The New Abnormal
5. Sawayama

1. PARTYNEXTDOOR - PARTYMOBILE
2. Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
3. Smino - She Already Decided
4. Disclosure - ENERGY (Deluxe)
5. Larry June - Numbers
6. Channel Tres - i don’t go outside
7. Young Dolph - Rich $lave
8. THEY. - The Amanda Tape
9. Victoria Monet - JAGUAR
10. KAYTRANADA - BUBBA (Instrumental Version)

final update

i have not cemented my top 50 its all over the place

BUT the top 10 is kinda cemented.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nfvzRfsv-L6DcBDmeZkxK5xNSZ2gUtmdxMXPv5bOFJg/edit?usp=sharing

is this in order?

Nah, I can’t do that lol

i personally never liked metric ratings for art

like are both of your top 2 albums around 90/100 or is one of them coming close to a 95+/100 or something like that?

i feel you, it's pretty difficult sometimes lmao

hence my shared #1 and #3 this year

depends on daily mood as well

Honestly, wouldn’t be able to tell you.

As you can tell there’s a 8/10 ranked 3, above many 9s.

Doesn’t mean that much. A 9 is just something that I enjoy a lot and think it delivers.

Word, it def changes for sure.

But also I just feel unable to categorize the s*** into rankings. Like I feel uncomfortable applying numbers to albums that I love. Like they’re all just dope in their own ways

year's over, trying to finalize my list soon

Sorry if this is asking too much but can I get names for all of these.

what's the gold looking one in the 6th column?

Spook x SadhuGold - “N***as is Magic (Or ‘Time Crisis’ If You White)”

I got you fam hang tight

thanks g, did they take it down? I can't find it anywhere