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![]() ![]() Here are our 50 favorite albums from the year’s first half - and let’s hope that this year’s deluge of game-changing chart-toppers is just around the corner. Legacy-building releases from artists building formidable catalogs, successful left-turns from hitmakers we thought had long finished surprising us, and totally new breakthroughs and debuts from phenomenons who very likely may turn into superstars of future years: 2023 has packed plenty of delights to keep us entertained while we await further turnover at the top. Besides that 36-track country blockbuster, the culture has largely been dominated by a pair of albums that are holdovers from late 2022 - SZA’s SOS and Taylor Swift’s Midnights - while most of pop’s overdue A-listers continue to lie dormant, and no rising or brand new sensations have put their imprint on the year in the same way.ĭoes that mean there haven’t been great albums to discover from this year? Of course not: Look a little lower on the Billboard 200 (or outside the chart altogether) and you’ll find plenty of still-impactful sets that have delighted us this year while the names at the top remain the same. The Crown Alex Bowman: Morgan Wallen - You Proof Chase Briscoe: Motley. In 2023… well, we’re still kinda waiting, aren’t we? Nearly six months into the year, and we’ve still only had four albums top the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, and only one for more than one week: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which has ruled the chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks, and still stands over three months after its release as the album to beat - a challenge not many other albums have been up to so far. NASCAR on NBC Playlist - playlist by NBC Sports Spotify Sign up Log in Home. We have an official Cover Me Up tab made by UG professional guitarists. The floodgates were officially open, and 2022 never really looked back from there. Verse 1 D G D A heart on the run, keeps a hand on the gun, it can’t trust anyone D G D I was so sure, what I needed was more, tried to shoot out the sun Bm G D In days when we raged, we flew off the page, such damage was done D G D But I made it through, ‘cause somebody knew, I was meant for someone Chorus 1 D G D So girl leave your bo. 38,752 views, added to favorites 2,012 times. After a tortoise-slow first four months to the year, the spring had kicked into high gear with successive chart-topping albums in May from superstar artists Future, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Styles. In 2022, Billboard‘s staff revealed our mid-year albums list in early June, seemingly just after the year had really kicked off in earnest in terms of big releases.
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