Who’s Responsible for Apple’s Best-Albums List?

What’s the apple of the Apple Music app’s eye? Apple Audio finalized the leading 10 of its top 100 albums of all-time checklist on Could 22, in the end declaring Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill the quite very best. “I enjoy the acknowledgement, I truly do, but I’d be remiss not to also acknowledge all of the songs and artists who informed and influenced me,” Hill said in a assertion. “The leaders of community and movements that sparked me, the social dynamics and new music scenes, equally more mature and current at the time, that intrigued and inspired me to contribute.”

Together with Hill in the major ten were being the standard suspects: Michael Jackson’s Thriller at two, the Beatles’ Abbey Street at 3, Stevie Wonder’s Tracks in the Crucial of Lifetime at six. New entries into the canon integrated Beyoncé’s 2016 album Lemonade at ten, Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde at 5 (great 12 months!), and Taylor Swift’s 2023 album (which is a re-recording of a 2014 album) 1989 (Taylor’s Edition) at 18. Some of the anger is, no surprise, Swift related. Also, the lack of Mariah Carey. P4ks have been sharpened, but finding mad at Apple alone is futile — Tim Cook’s beloved artist is very pretty much One Republic.

The list is really produced from the opinions of music-business insiders, like artists, songwriters, and producers, in accordance to Apple, together with a “team of experts.” Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, J Balvin, Charli XCX, Mark Hoppus, Honey Dijon, and Nia Archives are just some of the artists polled. Oh, so that’s why Charli’s 4-music Vroom Vroom EP was not No. 1: a conflict of interest!