Just wondering what everyone would recommend as their favourite albums of the year so far ... for different genres?

Best Pop Album?
Best RnB/Soul album?
Best Jazz album?
Best New Age/World Music?
Best Rock album?
Best Alternative album?
Best Dance/Electronica album?
Best Soundtrack album?
Best Rap/HipHop album?
Best Country album?
Best folk album?
Best Classical album?
Best Greatest hits album?

and any other genre not mentioned?



Best live album?

For best pop for me it would easily be Years & Years - Communion, followed by Jess Glynne - I Cry When I Laugh.

Best Pop Album?
Miss Fame - Beauty Marked

Best RnB/Soul album?
Jess Glynne - I Cry When I Laugh

Best Alternative album?
Melanie Martinez - Cry Baby

Best Dance/Electronica album?
Giorgio Moroder - Deja Vu

Best Soundtrack album?
The Last Five Years OST

Best Christmas Album:
RuPaul - Slay Belles

Best Alternative album would be Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots. I'd definitely recommend people check them out.

Best Pop Album?
Why Make Sense-Hot Chip

Best RnB/Soul album?
Love and War-Kwabs

Best Jazz album?
Yesterday I Had the Blues-Jose James

Best New Age/World Music?
The Colours Of Life-CFCF

Best Rock album?
Anthems For Doomed Youth-The Libertines

Best Alternative album?
Depression Cherry-Beach House

Best Dance/Electronica album?
Morning/Evening-Four Tet

Best Soundtrack album?
Amy-Amy Winehouse

Best Rap/HipHop album?
To Pimp A Butterfly-Kendrick Lamar

Best Country album?
Silver Season-Israel Nash

Best folk album?
I Love You, Honeybear-Father John Misty

Best Classical album?
From Sleep-Max Richter

Best Greatest hits album?
The Ultimate Collection-Paul Simon

so pleased to see so many varied tastes and albums appreciated ... I am most definitely. going to check some of the albums out suggested..thank you

Best Country Albums imo: all worthy of checking out
Sam Hunt - Montevallo
Chris Young - A/M
Kesey Musgrave - Pageant Material
Andrew Combs - All These Dreams
Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds