Music trends shift and reform like the tides, but somehow, the classics will always be classics. Apple Music has put together a team of its own experts alongside a "select group of artists, songwriters, producers, and industry professionals" to determine what albums can be said to be in the top 100 of humanity's output. The online music store avowed the results weren't influenced by their own streaming data, but only the opinions of the assembled music pros and lovers.
And here are the top 10. Beyonce's seismic Lemonade exploded across the cultural landscape in 2016. Longtime record producer Nile Rodgers, part of Apple's panel, called it "monumental".
Grunge became mainstream when Nirvana released its second studio album. The lead single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in particular turned the band into superstars, a status singer Kurt Cobain was particularly reluctant to embrace. "The vulnerability of this record, coupled with the intensity of the way it sounded and the cultural moment that it bled into, touched something," Grammy winner Maggie Rogers told Apple.
Made amid the tumult of a break-up with her future husband, Amy Winehouse's second and final album was full of heartbreak and grief. Singles included Rehab and Tears Dry On Their Own, with the album selling more than 16 million copies to date. The Pulitzer Prize was still in Kendrick Lamar's future when the rapper released his second album.
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