Billboard has released its year-end list of the 15 best albums of 2013.
Beyonce’s self-titled visual album earned the #1 spot on Billboard’s list, making it a last-minute addition with its December 13 release.
“Swept away in the hype?” Billboard says of the album, “Maybe. But really, who isn’t crazy in love with Beyonce right now? It’s been less than a week since her fifth solo album parachuted, without warning, into the iTunes store in the dead of night, leaving fans and critics alike in awe of the sheer ballsiness of the move—a superstar releasing their product with zero promotion. Wow, right? That could have been one hell of a failure. It was not.”
Kanye West’s Yeezus follows Beyonce as the second best album of the year, according to Billboard.
“Yeezus is not only Kanye West’s most radical album by a long shot, but one of the sharpest left turns by a major musical artists ever recorded,” Billboard says. “Yeezus transports the listener into the mind of the passionate, polarizing being that is Kanye West, who refuses to conform to expectations at a time in which most artists would rest on their laurels, or muse upon the comfort of a new relationship and impending fatherhood. Instead, West’s sixth studio album found ‘Ye aggressively rhyming about his fervid beliefs on social errors, the media’s perception of him and his complex relationship with women, all of which was drenched in unflinching emotion.”
Rolling Stone recently awarded Yeezus with their Hip Hop “Album of the Year” honors as well.
HipHopDX named Kanye West’s Yeezus the year’s second-best album, with Run The Jewels’ self-titled release earning the top spot.
Billboard’s list also includes Drake’s Nothing Was The Same, which earned a #5 slot, and Chance The Rapper’s Acid Rap, which landed in list’s final spot at #15.
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Yet another end of the year list where Nothing Was The Same appears and MMLP2 is nowhere to be found. Good to see Disclosure and Chance The Rapper on this list. Drake and 40 keep dropping classics!!
Billboard has no hip-hop credibility. NWTS sucks, MMLP2 is 1000x better. And what classics? Those two queers make forgettable trash.
OP, please remove Drake’s dick out your mouth when you speak.
You two sound bitter and delusional. NWTS has a higher score on metacritic than MMLP and MMLP2. Even with one publication giving NWTS 20/100.
NWTS > Eminem’s entire catalog and NWTS isn’t even Drake’s best album.
It doesn’t matter what critics think, MMLP2 is better than NWTS. Eminem’s entire discography stomps Drake’s. Eminem has classics, Drake doesn’t. Stop hating on Eminem and stop dickriding Drake.
The only people who think that Eminem’s catalog is better than Drake’s are Eminem stans. Most sane people recognize that Eminem has no classics. I’ll give the stans this, they come out in droves to purchase his wack ass albums everytime they drop. Y’all are suckers. I’m not hating or dickriding, I’m stating facts. Drake’s albums get better reviews because they are better. Tell your homeboy Eminem to make better music and stop being a glorified pop act. That might help album sales, but critics and fans of music more broadly don’t seem to respect that shit, which is why his bum ass ain’t topping any end of the year lists.
You’re wrong about everything. Only Drake stans like you think Drake’s catalog is better than Eminem. Eminem DOES have classics and every sane person knows that, even Eminem haters. None of Drake’s albums are as good as Em’s no matter what critics say and Eminem has better music. Drake is the pop act, not Eminem. At least Eminem makes hip-hop music unlike Drake, who makes pop/R&B. Yes, you are hating on Eminem and dickriding Drake, nothing you say is fact at all.
to the guy riding drakes dick like a rodeo clown, you have bitch like tendencies, i guess that explains a lot, the only people who care as much about drake as you do are girls and they want to fuck him, then again similar to those bitch like tendencies maybe thats just something else you have in common with a female. I’m from toronto and we don’t fuck with fake.
I’m from Rexdale. I state facts. Anonymous is the salty bitch nigga who makes shit up.
Is Drake rhyming over Alex Da Kid’s beats? Eminem is pop. He also lacks the critical acclaim because his music is pretty shitty and unoriginal.
Drake let me suck his dick and it did taste like champagne! Now every time he drops his pants I say “I’ll drink to that!”.
^^^^Seriously? How childish.
Drake stan, nothing you say are facts, just lies. Eminem is hip-hop, more hip-hop than Drake, who’s the real pop artist. Em does have acclaim, his music is great and original unlike Drake’s.
Wale lost once again! All across the board!
No disrespect for beyonce but how could she be placed at number one? reviewing an album takes time, alot of close listens to take in the whole album. the production, lyrics, concepts, theme. how in the world could you just put it at number 1 cause it sold alot quickly? that has nothing to do with quality. I lost absolutely all respect for this magazine. Its not even about the music anymore
God. it’s not about the sales, it’s about the overall concept.
“Lost All Respect For Billboard”
I’m sure they are super bummed out about this great loss
i lost my respect for this website along time ago. been a long time since i was here last. i just stopped in to see a review. got distracted by my curiosity of whose considered top 10 nowadays. im only 28 years old but i feel like a old parent telling people that lil wayne and drake thats not music.i just have a hard time accepting that rap isnt about skill or creatitivy anymore. if it was Oddisee’s Tangible Dream would be number 1 and Eminem wouldnt have been talked about as the best Rapper ever since after The Eminem Show
eminems album was number one!
Ni99ers lose again HaHa!! Em owns you turds!
Funny thing is I was fuckin’ the dog shit out your moms while you were in the basement on here typin’ that bullshit.
Ye shoved his blackness all up in your sisters pu$$ he was second dumb a$$
I must have missed the part where anyone gave a flying fuck about what Billboard had to say.
people seem to care every week when they put out the charts and sales that the entire music industry uses to gauge success
haha you femindem dickriders need to accept that the album was garbage. It was trash all the critics dont have it ranked in their top 10. Drakes album meanwhile has been recieved well by all the critics. Eminem makes pop music he isnt hiphop anymore. He needs features from pop stars like pink and rihanna to sell while drake does it all himself. Drake is the king of this rap shit he runs it while eminem is washed up pop garbage that needs to retire.
Drake has a high-yellow dick but I bet it goes dark when it’s in my ass and my mouth…I can’t see it but I can definitely feel it!
You’re still lying, Drake dickrider.
REal talk all you fuck heads who commented on this site need to shut the fuck up…..you spend too much time analyzing what the fuck other people when you should be figuring out what the fuck you need to be doing. Too much jacking off, bitch as niggas and meth head white boyz FUCK YOUR COMMENTS….lastly while yall busy being critics just know Im gonna fuck your girl and you don’t even know….yo bitch go suck my dick and you don’t even know….when she tell you she tired and going to bed, just know Im gonna be banging her ass and you don’t even know….and whenever you go to work or to go jack off I may fuck your momma to and you wont even know….HA HA HA!!!
Rolling Stone is so bought and paid for.
this is about billboard
All of these albums are trash….the best 2 albums of the year are
Savage Life Vol 4-Webbie
BIG KRIT-King Remembered In Time
AGREE WITH THE LIST.