NPR Music reveals its 50 Best Albums of 2021 and provided playlists on the major streamers. NPR Music’s staff said they had “found ourselves drawn to albums by artists making breakthroughs, moving forward with clarity, without balking at the obstacles falling in their way. Our list of the year’s 50 best is topped by an album that was unmatched in concept, songwriting or performance, but it had so much good company. Everywhere on this list you’ll find the thrill of artistic revelation, musicians finding themselves, willing something new into reality.”
NPR Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2021 Playlists
NPR Music’s Top 10 Best Albums of 2021
- Jazmine Sullivan Heaux Tales
- Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
- Lucy Dacus Home Video
- Allison Russell Outside Child
- Tangana El Madrileño
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra Promises
- Arooj Aftab Vulture Prince
- Arlo Parks Collapsed In Sunbeams
- Vince Staples Vince Staples
- Wild Up Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine
