Dois outros veículos conceituados divulgaram as suas listas com aqueles que consideram os 50 melhores discos do ano.
A lista da NPR, com duas irmãs na liderança, ficou assim:
01 – Solange – A Seat at the Table
02 – Beyoncé – Lemonade
03 – David Bowie – Blackstar
04 – Frank Ocean – Blonde
05 – Bon Iver – 22, A Million
06 – Barbara Hannigan / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons – let me tell you
07 – Anderson . Paak – Malibu
08 – Car Seat Headres – Teens of Denial
09 – Miranda Lambert – The Weight Of These Wings
10 – Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
11 – Xenia Rubinos – Black Terry Cat
12 – Rihanna – Anti
13 – Kaytranada – 99.9%
14 – Drive-By Truckers – American Band
15 – Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
16 – Carrie Rodriguez – Lola
17 – A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
18 – Laura Mvula – The Dreaming Room
19 – David T. Little – Dog Days
20 – Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
21 – The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
22 – Noname – Telefone
23 – A-WA – Habib Galbi
24 – Young Thug – JEFFERY
25 – Angel Olsen – My Woman
26 – Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina
27 – Jamila Woods – HEAVN
28 – Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution
29 – Mitski – Puberty 2
30 – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
31 – Big Thief – Masterpiece
32 – ANOHNI – Hopelessness
33 – Logan Richardson – Shift
34 – Lori McKenna – The Bird & The Rifle
35 – Pavel Kolesnikov – Chopin Mazurkas
36 – Maren Morris – Hero
37 – René Marie – Sound Of Red
38 – Pinegrove – Cardinal
39 – Tweet – Charlene
40 – Aaron Lee Tasjan – Silver Tears
41 – Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy – Darraje
42 – Pure Disgust – Pure Disgust
43 – Parker Millsap – The Very Last Day
44 – New York Phillarmonic / Alan Gilbert – Rouse: Symphonic Works
45 – Mal Devisa – Kiid
46 – Steven Julien – Fallen
47 – Y La Bamba – Ojos del Sol
48 – Domo Genesis – Genesis
49 – Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
50 – Catherine Russell – Harlem On My Mind
Já os 50 melhores discos de 2016 segundo a Stereogum são os seguintes:
01 – Beyoncé – Lemonade
02 – Frank Ocean – Blonde
03 – Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
04 – A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
05 – David Bowie – Blackstar
06 – Solange – A Seat At The Table
07 – Angel Olsen – My Woman
08 – Mitski – Puberty 2
09 – Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
10 – Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
11 – Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Denial
12 – Anderson . Paak – Malibu
13 – Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
14 – ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
15 – Bon Iver – 22, A Million
16 – Kamaiyah – A Good Night In The Ghetto
17 – White Lung – Paradise18 – Katie Dey – Flood Network
19 – ANOHNI – Hopelessness
20 – Rihanna – Anti
21 – The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
22 – PUP – The Dream Is Over
23 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
24 – Pinegrove – Cardinal
25 – Cobalt – Slow Forever
26 – Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
27 – Japanese Breakfast – Psychopomp
28 – Noname – Telefone
29 – Mal Devisa – Kiid
30 – Abi Reimold – Wriggling
31 – Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
32 – YG – Still Brazy
33 – Ian Sweet – Shapeshifter
34 – Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
35 – Mannequin Pussy – Romantic
36 – Kaytranada – 99.9%
37 – Jamila Woods – HEAVN
38 – Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
39 – The Hotelier – Goodness
40 – Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
41 – Crying – Beyond The Fleeting Gales
42 – James Blake – The Colour In Anything
43 – M83 – Junk
44 – Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
45 – Margareth Glaspy – Emotions And Math
46 – Touché Amoré – Stage Four
47 – Lydia Loveless – Real
48 – Tim Hecker – Love Streams
49 – Kvelertak – Nattesferd
50 – Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost