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#15 Shura - Nothing's Real
a few months ago my friend told me to try this cool artist called "Shura", so I tried her song "Nothing's Real", and really liked it. It's a great fun song, and the production gives me 80s vibes. Shura has a great voice, kind of like Madonna. She also looks like young Madonna in the album cover. Touch is another amazing song by her, other great tracks are What's It Gonna Be, What Happened to Us, and 2Shy.
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#14 Lady Gaga - Joanne
Yes, this era has been disappointing, and yes, this is Gaga's worst album so far. (excluding C2C)
But, this album is not bad at all.
I do miss some pop/electronic music from Gaga, but it's nice to see her trying new styles.
Honestly, I liked all songs in this album. My favorites are: A-YO, which is incredibly fun and amazing and I hope it will be the next single. Dancin' In Circles, which is a bop that has to be a single, Perfect Illusion (which is a terrible lead single choice but a great song), and Sinner's Prayer. I also love Diamond Heart, Joanne, John Wayne, Angel Down, Grigio Girls, and Just Another Day. This album has no fillers. Yet- it's not as good as any of her other albums.
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#13 JoJo - Mad Love.
I saw a lot of people praising this album so I had to try it. I have never listened to JoJo before.
I loved it on first listen, it's a great pop album, with a lot of bops. My favorite songs are: Music, F*** Apologies, High Heels, Good Thing, and especially Vibe. All other tracks are great as well.
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#12 Little Mix - Glory Days
I really loved Get Weird, so I was excited for this album, although it came out too early. Shoutout To My Ex isn't as good as Black Magic, so I expected an album not as good as Get Weird. I kinda lost the hype, but then I heard the snippets and got excited again. I tried the album and loved all of it except for Nobody Like You. Touch is pop perfection, Down & Dirty is a bop, No More Sad Songs is perfect, and my favorite song is probably Nothing Else Matters. Great pop album!
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#11 Rihanna - ANTI
I really liked this album, and wish I could give it a higher spot, but there were better albums this year. When Work came out I didn't like it, then it grew on me and I realized it's a bop. I didn't like the album on first listen, but after trying it again a few times, I loved most of it. Desperado is amazing, and Love On The Brain is Rihanna's best song ever. Consideration, Needed Me, Same Ol' Mistakes, Never Ending, Higher, Close to You, Pose, and Sex With Me are great, and ofcurse, Kiss It Better is incredible ![heart2](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/a3fdf692.gif)
thank you for reading! #10-#6 coming tomorrow
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ofcurse, Kiss It Better is incredible
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Praise Teddy.
JoJo ![clap3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/67d90ee8.gif)
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amazing albums
Nick is a hottie
my favorite 5H ![Alexz](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ec20fb7f.gif)
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4/5
Shura ![JonnyϟLightning](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/jonny_zpsc73391c5.png) great to see her on ATRL ![JonnyϟLightning](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/jonny_zpsc73391c5.png) she really amazing, I founded her last year and she's a lit ![JonnyϟLightning](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/jonny_zpsc73391c5.png) I wish she'd have some success ![:'(](images/smilies/images/smilies/cry.gif)
Mad Love is the best JoJo's work, just like ANTI for Rihsus ![smitten](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ebf69f50.gif)
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Great list. The ANTI placement is accurate af
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thanks everyone ![party](images/smilies/images/smilies/party.gif)
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ANTI is amazing ![party](images/smilies/images/smilies/party.gif)
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3 pages only? ![Bibliotheque](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/biblio_zps23dff242.gif)
don't let this flop please ![JonnyϟLightning](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/jonny_zpsc73391c5.png)
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3 pages only? ![Bibliotheque](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/biblio_zps23dff242.gif)
don't let this flop please ![JonnyϟLightning](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/jonny_zpsc73391c5.png)
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It's early in December. Most people have exams n **** till mid December when all the threads are gonna get busy
Last year the YE started later so more people were online and able to comment.
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ANTI should've been one 1 and not two ![eli's_rhythm](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/eli_zps0932edf9.gif)
but still good a good update. Loved the Jojo album
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Rihanna ![clap](http://home.arcor.de/smiliez/smz/1074.gif) Joanne is a nice album, and I even think is better than BTW or ARTPOP ![Dancehall Queen](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/dancehall_zps88e4c4c6.png) but The Fame will always be her best album ![weeps](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRLSmilies/52b0f867.gif)
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Nice banner
Albums #25-21:
Title >>>>>>> Thank You by far. Title had so many great standout tracks while Thank You has minimal, but it's still not a bad album.
Oh My My is awesome though I agree with the statement "Yes, it's great, but I wanted it to be perfect." I had super high expectations and some of them were met, but others weren't. I think the long tracklist is partly to blame, I love that they had 20 songs but the latter half just drags on a biT. Lemonade is obviously fantastic ![clap3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/67d90ee8.gif) I just listened to Wild World a few days ago and wasn't impressed, most of the album is very samey and kinda boring.
Albums #20-16:
Last Year Was Complicated and DNCE back-to-back ![date](images/smilies/images/smilies/date.gif) Both are full of awesome bops
24K Magic ![Katie 2](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/katie2_zpsbc053685.gif) Bruno really did his thing on this one. Represents the 80's/90's era so well.
Albums #15-11:
Joanne ![Alexz](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ec20fb7f.gif) Mad Love. ![heart2](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/a3fdf692.gif) ANTI ![jamming](images/smilies/images/smilies/jamming.gif)
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#10 E•MO•TION: Side B
I know, this is a bad place for a legend like Carly Rae Jepsen, i'm sorry. But Side B is not as good as E•MO•TION. While the former is a great pop album, the latter is an amazing pop masterpiece and probably the best album of all time (after Delirium ofcurse). I wish there were more than 8 songs, but I can understand why some of them didn't make it to the actual album. (Body Language, The One, and Store are great, but not like anything in E•MO•TION)
However, Roses, Cry, Higher, and Fever are amazing. It's not a bad album at all (if you call it an album), I just don't find myself listening to it anymore.
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#9 Foxes - All I Need
Even though I didn't really like Glorious (it's good but has a lot of fillers imo), I was excited for this album because Body Talk/Better Love/Feet Don't Fail Me Now are amazing songs. She kept delaying the release date, so I lost the hype with time, but I was still excited to try it. I loved all of it. I wouldn't say I was suprised, after all the amazing songs she released before the album. This album is underrated pop perfection, with both great pop songs like Money, Wicked Love, Shoot Me Down, and Amazing, and great ballads like If You Leave Me Now, Devil Side, Scar, On My Way, Rise Up... all songs are great, and this album is incredible.
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#8 Sia - This is Acting
You might be wondering why this album's position isn't higher, since I am a Sia stan and my username is literally "This is Acting". Well, I chose the username before the album came out, but I don't regret it or anything. This album is a great pop album, an easy project for Sia. She can write catchy great pop songs in minutes, and make a good pop album out of all the leftovers. Don't get me wrong, that's an amazing skill and Sia is incredibly talented and I highly appreciate it. But I can't call this a Sia album, because afterall, "this is acting". This is not Sia, yes it's her voice, but 1000 Forms of Fear is a 100 times better, emotional, and real, and I think most ATRLers would agree. I'm not hating on this album at all, I loved it on first listen and i still do. I barely listen to the Target bonus tracks, but all the other tracks are great songs. Bird Set Free is an incredible ballad, although a little bit generic and not very unique. Alive is okay, I never liked that song too much. One Million Bullets is amazing, Move Your Body is a bop , Unstoppable is very generic and corny, but a great powerful song. Cheap Thrills is a bop as well, not as much as Move Your Body but it's a really fun song (I don't play it anymore, it was a huge hit and got overplayed).
Reaper is an AMAZING song, one of my favorites, same with House On Fire, pop perfection. ![smitten](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ebf69f50.gif)
Footprints is great, but in the album's bottom 3 for sure. Sweet Design is kinda messy but I love it, Broken Glass is incredible, and Space Between just leaves me speechless everytime. An emotional powerful ballad, that feels very Sia although it was intended for another artist. Now to the mess called "This is Acting (Deluxe Version)". I think this is the most disappointing Sia release ever. Unlike the standart album, this is just a bunch of filler tracks and remixes. The Greatest is amazing and a perfect pop song, but I was hoping for a new album with it and not a reissue. It's obviously the best part of the deluxe edition, as for the rest- Confetti is a good pop song, I don't listen to it at all though, I barely remember how it sounds. Midnight Decisions is good, nothing more, Jesus Wept is awful. And The Greatest solo version is a lot better than the Kendrick one.
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#7 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
This album is a pop perfection masterpiece. Why did I not choose it as my #1 album? because I don't really listen to it anymore, and there are better albums. But obviously this is Ariana's best album BY FAR. I wish Focus was on the standart edition, but it's still great. Moonlight is an incredible song, Dangerous Woman is a great lead singe, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, puke on it, give birth to it, etc. Be Alright is a bop, Into You is one of the best pop songs of the decade. Side to Side is a great fun song but I wish it flopped because now it's overplayed. Greedy is amazing and hopefully the next single, and my top songs are Bad Decisions and Touch It, which are amazing. All other tracks that I didn't mention are great as well. Knew Better / Forever Boy is a little bit overrated in ATRL but it's great.
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#6 The Weeknd - Starboy
This is the best male album of the year, and perhaps even the decade, don't expect another male artist in my list because Abel is the only male artist that could really made me stan him. From the moment Starboy came out (the song), and the incredible album cover was revaled, I was excited for this album so much, more than any other album this year. Later he released the great song False Alarm, and the two bops, I Feel It Coming, and Party Monster. Not long ago the full album was released, and I loved all of it- excluding All I Know, Attention, and Sidewalks. The best songs are Rockin', Secrets, A Lonely Night, Die For You, and Nothing Without You. All I Know is awful, but without it I guess this album could have been much greater, so I just choose to ignore its existence. True Colors is in the bottom 3, but it's not bad. I didn't really like Attention, and Sidewalks is kind of weird, I tried to like it, but I love only Kendrick's part, the chorus has too many autotune. The interlude with Lana is AMAZING.
Let's say All I Know, Sidewalks, and Attention never existed- then it's a perfect 15 tracks album. ![:)](http://www.atrl.net/forums/images/smilies/images/smilies/smile.gif)
I didn't mention Reminder, Six Feet Under, Love to Lay, and Ordinary Life, but obviously these are incredible songs. Very proud of king Abel!
thank you for reading! #5-#1 coming tomorrow
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omg the good taste here
Starboy, Mad Love, DW, ANTI, TIA ![flame](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ccd10a8e.gif)
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ANTI, Joanne, All I Need, Starboy, Dangerous Woman
The absolutely flawless taste ![clap3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/67d90ee8.gif)
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omg the good taste here
Starboy, Mad Love, DW, ANTI, TIA ![flame](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ccd10a8e.gif)
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ANTI, Joanne, All I Need, Starboy, Dangerous Woman
The absolutely flawless taste ![clap3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/67d90ee8.gif)
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thank you ![hug](images/smilies/images/smilies/hug.gif)
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Joanne, ANTI, This is Acting ![clap3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/67d90ee8.gif)
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Great list
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thanks guys
edited the thread to make it easier for you to read it ![:)](http://www.atrl.net/forums/images/smilies/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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