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2017 Favorites

  • NPR Music's best 100 songs of 2017. (Clockwise from upper left) Goldlink, Margo Price, IBEYI, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Tyler The Creator, Big Thief, SZA and Sharon Jones.
    The 100 Best Songs Of 2017
    The songs of the year reflected deep needs — for safety, respect, money, self-definition, revolution — and often delivered their own form of satisfaction.
  • NPR Music's top five albums of the year. (Clockwise from upper left) <em>Process </em>by Sampha, <em>DAMN. </em>by Kendrick Lamar, <em>Melodrama </em>by Lorde, <em>Crtl </em>by SZA and <em>Capacity </em>by Big Thief.
    The 50 Best Albums Of 2017
    Consensus wasn't easy to come by in 2017, but the best albums of the year were bolts of clarity, sonic companions for joy, grief and redemption, for battles hard won and for reckonings still to come.