| Ranking |
Artist / Title |
| 1 |
Beyonce / Lemonade |
| 2 |
Solange / A Seat at the Table |
| 3 |
Chance The Rapper / Coloring Book |
| 4 |
Frank Ocean / Blonde |
| 5 |
A Tribe Called Quest / We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service |
| 6 |
Anderson.Paak / Malibu |
| 7 |
Kanye West / The Life of Pablo |
| 8 |
Danny Brown / Atrocity Exhibition |
| 9 |
Rihanna / ANTI |
| 10 |
KAYTRANADA / 99.9% |
| 11 |
Blood Orange / Freetown Sound |
| 12 |
Kendrick Lamar / untitled unmastered. |
| 13 |
NxWorries / Yes Lawd! |
| 14 |
Young Thug / Jeffery |
| 15 |
Common / Black America Again |
| 16 |
YG / Still Brazy |
| 17 |
Noname / Telefone |
| 18 |
Schoolboy Q / Blank Face LP |
| 19 |
Drake / VIEWS |
| 20 |
Alicia Keys / HERE |
| 21 |
King / We Are King |
| 22 |
Childish Gambino / "Awaken, My Love!" |
| 23 |
Bruno Mars / 24K Magic |
| 24 |
Esperanza Spalding / Emily's D+Evolution |
| 25 |
Jamila Woods / HEAVN |
| 26 |
Maxwell / blackSUMMERS'night |
| 27 |
Kamaiyah / A Good Night in the Ghetto |
| 28 |
Gallant / Ology |
| 29 |
Isaiah Rashad / The Sun's Tirade |
| 30 |
Nao / For All We Know |
| 31 |
Ariana Grande / Dangerous Woman |
| 32 |
Prince / HitnRun phase2 |
| 33 |
Michael Kiwanuka / Love & Hate |
| 34 |
Mac Miller / The Divine Feminine |
| 35 |
Anthony Hamilton / What I'm Feelin' |
| 36 |
KA / Honor Killed the Samurai |
| 37 |
Jessy Lanza / Oh No |
| 38 |
Kevin Gates / Islah |
| 39 |
Rae Sremmurd / SremmLife 2 |
| 40 |
Vince Staples / Prima Donna |
| 41 |
Travis Scott / Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight |
| 42 |
BJ The Chicago Kid / In My Mind |
| 43 |
Lee Fields & the Expressions / Special Night |
| 44 |
Joe / My Name Is Joe Thomas |
| 45 |
Charles Bradley / Changes |
| 46 |
Death Grips / Bottomless Pit |
| 47 |
Kate Tempest / Let Them Eat Chaos |
| 48 |
Laura Mvula / The Dreaming Room |
| 49 |
Aaron Neville / Apache |
| 50 |
De La Soul / and the Anonymous Nobody… |
