Let Go is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released on June 4, 2002. The album was credited as the biggest pop debut of 2002. It was released to generally positive critical reviews, although Lavigne's songwriting received some criticism, Let Go was 6x platinum in the United States. It also did extremely well in Canada, receiving a diamond certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association, as well as reaching multi-platinum in many countries around the world, including the UK in which she became the youngest female solo artist to have a number-one album in the region. As of May 2008, Let Go had sold over 16 million copies worldwide, becoming Lavigne's highest-selling album to date. According to Billboard Magazine the album was the number 21 top-selling album of the decade. A Rolling Stone readers poll named Let Go as the fourth best album of the 2000s.
Homogenic is the fourth studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in September 1997. The album was nominated in the Best Alternative Music Performance category at the 1998 Grammy Awards, losing to Radiohead's OK Computer. American critics rated Homogenic highly in end of the year polls. In Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll of 1997, the album placed at number nine. Spin ranked the album at number four on their list of "Top 20 Albums of the Year". British critics listed the album in similar polls, with Melody Maker ranking the album at number thirty-three on their list of "Albums of the Year" and NME placed the album at number fifteen in its Critics' Poll. Later reception to the album has also been generally positive. Ryan Schrieber of Pitchfork Media gave Homogenic a 9.9 out of 10 rating, claiming the album was "absolutely brilliant". Homogenic placed on number 21 on the music webzine Pitchfork Media's list of the top one hundred albums of the 1990s, claiming it as "one of the most perfectly formed records of any era, and it is entirely possible that Björk will never approach this level of consistently enrapturing beauty again". In 2007, Slant Magazine gave the highest possible rating of five out of five stars, describing the album as "gorgeous and evocative" and praising it as one of the best albums of the 1990s. In a career retrospective in 2007, Spin gave the album five out of five stars. In 2011, Slant Magazine placed the album at number one on their list of best albums of the 1990s.
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released in August 1965. Leading off with his hit single of that summer, "Like a Rolling Stone", the album features many songs that have been acclaimed as classics and that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Highway 61 Revisited", "Ballad of a Thin Man", and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues". The album has received multiple accolades and was ranked number four on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described by critics as Dylan's magnum opus and was number one on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
I was listening to Like A Rolling Stone and then to compare to Till The World Ends.
38. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, first released on March 25, 2011. Upon its release, Femme Fatale received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its production and dance-pop style. Commercially, Femme Fatale has become successful, debuting atop of the charts in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and the United States, and peaking inside the top ten in twenty-four countries. In the United States, she earned her sixth number one album. Four singles were released from the album: "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", and "I Wanna Go" became worldwide hits, and reached top ten positions in the United States, making it Spears' first album to have three top ten hits in the country.
