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9 Back To Black   

8 Pearl 

6 Lemonade 

5 Supa Dupa Fly  (over da real world and under construction?? WTF??)

4 I Never Loved a Man The Way I Loved You (not at number 1) 

3 I Put A Spell on You 

2 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill    this also as well as number 3 & 4 could've been number one instead of that white bitch

[L0NZ.]

96 Hardcore 

[b7]

Ncncncmc @ them mostly discussing the lemonade FILM. Yea, that was stellar for sure lol

[Harlem]

Lol yeah "Beyonc?" or "B'Day" should've been on that list instead of Lemonade

[RAY7]

Lemonade is as much a pastiche musically as it is visually

[hotep.]

The way Lemons get gassed up like "Beyonce" and "4" didn't happen...

[b7]

The way Lemons get gassed up like "Beyonce" and "4" didn't happen...

lolz yea ...

[FlowerBomb]

77. Aaliyah
Aaliyah (Blackground/Virgin America 2001)

For her third and final act, Aaliyah made her strongest and most important offering. Her very tragic and untimely death shortly after the release of this self-titled album made it difficult and haunting for most people to listen to. But Aaliyah is a revelation that projects an effortlessly cool aesthetic coupled with the actual vulnerability that comes with being cool. The compositions on the forward-thinking album, most by Stephen Garrett (Static Major), were complex and futuristic, much more so than any other R&B records released at the time, and the way Aaliyah perfectly embodied Garrett's songwriting is astounding. You'd never think that she didn't write these songs herself. On this album, Aaliyah continued the legacy of soprano singers like Minnie Riperton and Mariah Carey, and simultaneously set the stage for artists like Kelela and Solange to emerge. In the process, Aaliyah became a catalyst and bridge that created a smooth transition from '90s style R&B into Modern PBR&B. ?Stasia Irons (KEXP)

17. Janet Jackson
Control (A&M, 1986)

There would be no Rhythm Nation, Janet, or Velvet Rope without Control. This was the breakout album for then-19-year-old Janet Jackson, who until then was fondly known as Michael Jackson's little sister, Penny from Good Times and Willis' girlfriend on Diff'rent Strokes. She fired her dad as her manager, got with producers Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam from The Time, and made an album that clearly said "I'm a grown-ass woman," in case anyone was confused. The album, released February 1986, took on important issues such as sexual harassment, safe sex and abstinence, and we sang right along with her, making hits out of "What Have You Don't For Me Lately," "Nasty," "Control," "When I Think Of You," "Let's Wait Awhile" and "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)." But Janet did something especially pivotal with the video for "Pleasure Principle," another single from the album. She walked alone into an empty loft with kneepads on, kicked over a chair, cabbage-patched and clarified for those in the cheap seats that she was as great a performer as her big brother: "Ba-by you can't hold me down! Ba-by you can't hold me dow-ow-own!" ?Tanya Ballard Brown (NPR Staff)

9. Amy Winehouse
Back To Black (Island, 2006)

The late '00s saw an explosive, cross-genre revival of retro-sounding soul music that continues to shape the pop landscape to this day. Arguably, that trend's catalyst was Amy Winehouse's earth-shaking final album. Working closely with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, plus a then-little-known Brooklyn soul ensemble called the Dap-Kings, the young, beehived-and-tattooed London singer pivoted from jazz to the velvet musical vocabulary of '60s girl groups and Motown. Yet however smartly it evoked the sounds of an earlier era, Back To Black could never have been mistaken for anything but contemporary ? or anyone but Winehouse. Funk and R&B grooves snapped through a post-breakbeat filter; her lyrics about lost love and self-destructive habits pulled zero punches; her delivery came fluid as exhaled cigarette smoke. Even "Tears Dry On Their Own," whose arrangement reproduced Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye's version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" down to the drum fills, sounded magnificently fresh with Winehouse's lead line ? a romantic duet flipped into a frank, lonely rendering of a breakup's aftermath. This was a soul record that wouldn't forget that hip-hop happened, a thoroughly modern tract on heartbreak whose bluntness made it believable. ?Rachel Horn (NPR Music)

[Barbie Dangerous]

Lol yeah "Beyonc?" or "B'Day" should've been on that list instead of Lemonade

They listed what the fuck they listed.

[RAY7]

Lol yeah "Beyonc?" or "B'Day" should've been on that list instead of Lemonade

They listed what the fuck they listed.

!!

[BAPHOMET.]

Rig kinda lost control in here. lolz 

[como la whore]

so many of my queens in the top 20 

[MelMel]

so many of my queens in the top 20 

yes Selena and Madge and Bey 

[FlowerBomb]

so many of my queens in the top 20 

yes Selena and Madge and Bey 

and Janet, faggit

[BAPHOMET.]

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