Every year Time Magazine creates The Top Ten Of Everything list, Hip Hop made a particularly good showing this year with three albums making the top albums list and rappers being featured in several other categories.
Top 10 Albums:
1. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
3. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
4. The National, High Violet
5. Drake, Thank Me Later
6. Sufjan Stevens, Age of Adz
7. The Black Keys, Brothers
8. Yeasayer, Odd Blood
9. Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
10. Beach House, Teen Dream
In addition, Kanye West was listed in several other categories. Including several Twitter categories, having one of the years top comebacks, the most over reported story, and the years biggest songs (see below). Eminem’s Rolling Stone cover was among top magazine covers.
Top 10 Songs:
Cee Lo Green, “F___ You”
Janelle Monáe, “Tightrope”
Kanye West, “Power”
Arcade Fire, “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
Eminem featuring Rihanna, “Love the Way You Lie”
Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp”
Jónsi, “Animal Arithmetic”
Drake, “Find Your Love”
Elizabeth Cook, “All the Time”
Sleigh Bells, “Rill Rill”
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