NPR's "#1 Album of 2016" pick: "A Seat At Table" by Solange
Variety Magazine's #1 pick for "Best Album of 2016": "Thank You For Your Service...We Got It From Here" by A Tribe Called Quest
Billboard's "#1 Album of The Year" 2016: "25" By Adele
USA Today's "Best Songs of 2016": "Cranes In The Sky" by Solange "Lazarus" by David Bowie
New York Times' Picks for "Best Classical Albums of 2016": "R.Nathaniel Dett: The Ordering of Moses" LP by May Festival Chorus; "Haydn & Ligetti: Concertos and Capriccios" by Shai Wosner; "Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35" by Teodor Currentzis
Rolling Stone's #1 pick for "Best Country Album of 2016": "Hero" by Maren Morris
Billboard's "Top New Artist" of 2016: Bryson Tiller
Rolling Stone's "Best R&B Albums of 2016" picks: "Here" by Alicia Keys; "A Seat At Table" by Solange; "Sugar Symphony" by Chloe X Halle; "Hard II Love" by Usher
NPR's "Best Jazz Albums of 2016": "Away With You" by Mary Halverson Octet; "Beginning of a Memory" by Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family
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