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Bring up the year-end chart, and you get one picture of R&B in 2026. This list is the other one. None of the seventy-two songs here had a number to become important, and most never even touched one; buried four tracks deep on a deluxe edition, lead singles from an EP by a writer who’s penned a platinum hit for every other writer in town but himself. The year was too loud ...
Most year-end lists pick a side, and that’s where they live. The rap site rank rap, the indie blog rank indie, and everybody just separates the year into discrete boxes and never has to argue with the person who put a soul record up against a heavy metal one. This list doesn’t bother with boxes. Seventy-five albums, all they have in common is that this year would have been po...