1 – Beauty Behind the Madness – The Weeknd – A
2 – Got Your Six – Five Finger Death Punch – B
3 – Rodeo – Travis Scott – A-
4 -The Book Of Souls – Iron Maiden – B-
5 – Wild EP – Troye Sivan – C+
6 – Kill The Lights – Luke Bryan – C-
7 – 1989 – Taylor Swift – A
8 – Badlands – Halsey – B-
9 – X – Ed Sheeran – C+ –
10 – DS2 – Future – B+
Comment: This is a s strong a chart as I’ve seen in a long long time, a great year for hip hop finds three very good albums, very very good. It is turning out to be a great return year for r&b: everything that has been building since Drake took over from Weezy(or at least Frank Ocean and the rest of Odd Future showed up) is boiling over and hip hop as art form is completely undeniable after so much rough and tumble Rick Ross-y gangsta. The concept is simple: we are assholes yes, but we know it. There are worse ideas out there. The Five Finger Death Punch maybe the best hard rock album of the year not nailed down by Titus Andronicus.
