![]() When you think of electronic music, do you think of slow and melancholy ballads about love in the digital age? Probably not. Related: Our favorite books of 2016: Newsweek staff picksīEST RIDICULOUSLY LONG ALBUM: James Blake, The Colour in Anything ![]() First, we wanted to give out some awards to albums that weren't able to crack our list, but that we still felt deserved recognition, before we moved on to ranking them. So bountiful was 2016 with music we loved that we couldn't restrict our choices to a mere top 10 list. This means you're not going to find a whole lot of overlap between the albums the Grammys deemed the best of the year and those the Newsweek staff couldn't stop listening to. As can be said of the presidency of the United States, music isn't a meritocracy. The albums that sell the most copies are going to get the most praise. If Tuesday morning's announcement of the 2017 Grammy nominations taught us anything-or reaffirmed anything-it's that the music industry is a popularity contest.
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