official chart Rolling Stone: The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far - #1 Beyoncé

[Dear Reader]

Top 10:

 

1. Beyoncé - 'Lemonade'

2. Radiohead - 'Kid A'

3. Frank Ocean - 'Blonde'

4. Outkast - 'Stankonia'

5. Taylor Swift - 'folklore'

6. Kendrick Lamar - 'good kid, m.A.A.d city'

7. SZA - 'SOS'

8. Kanye West - 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'

9. Bad Bunny - 'Un Verano Sin Ti'

10. The Strokes - 'Is This It'

 

Entire top 250 below:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-21st-century-1235177256/beyonce-lemonade-9-1235188652

[Sawk]

Lemonade isn't even Beyoncé's best album, be fr. 

 

FolkLORD getting more praise tho 

[Cottonmouth]

Uhm... it's not even in her top 3

 

Love Drought and Sorry(Demo) are some of her best songs though

[Dear Reader]

1 minute ago, Sawk said:

Lemonade isn't even Beyoncé's best album, be fr. 

 

FolkLORD getting more praise tho 

 

Just now, Cottonmouth said:

Uhm... it's not even in her top 3

 

Love Drought and Sorry(Demo) are some of her best songs though

Self-Titled (my personal favorite) is at #16. It's still an amazing spot for it and Lemonade is very loved by the critics so it's not really that surprising!

[Sawk]

1 minute ago, Dear Reader said:

 

Self-Titled (my personal favorite) is at #16. It's still an amazing spot for it and Lemonade is very loved by the critics so it's not really that surprising!

Tea, I'm not that surprised at its placement, but I thought Renaissance would kinda replace Lemonade as THE critically acclaimed Bey project, guess it's too gay for them  

[HASHTAGPOW]

But STREamss!!1

[Dear Reader]

Just now, Sawk said:

Tea, I'm not that surprised at its placement, but I thought Renaissance would kinda replace Lemonade as THE critically acclaimed Bey project, guess it's too gay for them  

Not that it's too gay, I don't think that's it. Lemonade has built it's legacy as Beyoncé's most adored albums by the critics. Renaissance is still too recent to be considered "that great". Once it sits a while, it might rise on the list, but I don't think it will ever surpass ST or Lemonade.

[Klein]

Very happy to see Lemonade getting the deserved acclaim in Beyoncé's catalogue. 

 

folklore over 1989, critics finally understanding the assignment. 

 

SOS over CTRL is a choice though but still slay SZA. 

[Fleahive]

I love seeing a Beyoncé album, top a chart and trying to guess which of the four potential options it is as the page loads. We love an album artist. 

[SoJro101]

Lemonade will always be Lemonade 

[swissman]

I would agree that Lemonade is not her "best" work now, and yet somehow it still is. It still is her magnum opus. Where it expanded on BEYONCÉ, it also set forth an entirely new path that her next albums would more-or-less follow. 

 

I think RENAISSANCE is a more totally pleasing album sonically and it takes more risks in song structure and overall music-making, and COWBOY CARTER has that too, plus much of the narrative brilliance that made Lemonade so amazing and STILL, neither come close to the total package of Lemonade insofar as blending multiple messages, personal storytelling, genre-bending and yes—with the visuals, overall vision and artistry. It's just that girl, plain and simple. A true masterpiece from which her next albums were and will be compared to insofar as a benchmark of what she's achieved artistically in her career.

I also think the way she shrugged off commerciality (first by making her lead single nearly totally unavailable) and also by her disregard for future singles and the subject matter she brought forward helped cement it as a very artistic endeavour.

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by swissman

[Thomas P]

Where'd Renaissance place? 

[Burn]

1. Beyoncé - 'Lemonade'

3. Frank Ocean - 'Blonde'

4. Outkast - 'Stankonia'

6. Kendrick Lamar - 'good kid, m.A.A.d city'

7. SZA - 'SOS'

8. Kanye West - 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'

11. D'Angelo - 'Voodoo'

12. Jay-Z - 'The Blueprint'

16. Beyoncé - 'BEYONCÉ'

33. Kendrick Lamar - 'To Pimp A Butterfly'

37. Beyoncé - 'Renaissance'

38. Frank Ocean - 'channel ORANGE'

47. Kanye West - 'The College Dropout'

 

 

Oh wow so much taste.

[enchanted0]

I mean Lemonade does have "Pray You Catch Me", "Hold Up", "Love Drought", "All Night" and "Formation" so..

Edited 6 hours ago by enchanted0

[swissman]

1 minute ago, Dear Reader said:

Not that it's too gay, I don't think that's it. Lemonade has built it's legacy as Beyoncé's most adored albums by the critics. Renaissance is still too recent to be considered "that great". Once it sits a while, it might rise on the list, but I don't think it will ever surpass ST or Lemonade.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Lemonade was launched as an event, and one we had no clue was even an album for sure. It came with visuals which stamped it in the public and critical consciousness whereas with RENAISSANCE she was sort of courting a more cult-classic vibe where if you got into it, you got into it. If not, there wasn't much else that was going to lead you to it in terms of cultural conversations or supplementary media.

[Dear Reader]

1 minute ago, Thomas P said:

Where'd Renaissance place? 

#37.

[Teen Spirit]

2 minutes ago, Thomas P said:

Where'd Renaissance place? 

That's what I came here to see. Her actual best album. I understand why Lemonade is often ranked higher though.

[Santhosh]

Wack list

[jezebelvictoria]

I was going to give the biggest eye roll if it was 'Cosplay Carter'. 

Edited 8 hours ago by jezebelvictoria

[Teen Spirit]

1 minute ago, enchanted0 said:

I mean Lemonade does have "Play You Catch Me", "Hold Up", "Love Drought", "All Night" and "Formation" so..

Exactlyyyyy. 

But ...

6inch > any of those songs. 

[on the line]

Lol okay 👍 

[RoseBud]

That is alot of Beyonce and even Jay-Z...What is going on here ? 

 

[Sawk]

5 minutes ago, Klein said:

SOS over CTRL is a choice though but still slay SZA. 

Very much a choice 

[Reginald]

It's cool to see our faves up there, but as usual electronic acts are mainly overlooked.

Daft Punk's Discovery at #63 is a complete joke That album changed mainstream pop sounds, not just edm. 

[badgirlriri]

This list looks disastrous.