What are the best mainstream pop albums of the 2010's?

What are the best mainstream pop albums of the 2010's?

Emotion is the GOAT, wish Emotion Side B a close second.

Red and Speak Now are also pretty good desu. Btw by mainstream you mean like the big names (Taylor, Ariana, Rihanna...) or just normal pop?

Not big names exactly, but preferably nothing experimental or artsy, just regular mainstream pop

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That one is pretty obvious

Pure Heroine

My favourite of all 3 of Ellie

And 1000 of Fear as well

Well, these are some that I consider pretty good:

• Rihanna - ANTI
• AlunaGeorge - Body Music
• Troye Sivan - Blue Neighborhood
• Christine and the Queens - Self-Titled
• Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
• Ellie Goulding- Delirium
• Lady Gaga - Born This Way
• Jessie Ware - Devotion
• Ed Sheeran - +, x
• Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart
• Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
• Taylor Swift - Speak Now, Red, 1989
• MO - No Mythologies To Follow
• Tove Styrke - Kiddo
• Kiiara - low kii savage
• Tinashe - Aquarius
• Lorde - Pure Heroine
• La Roux - Trouble In Paradise

Hope you find something that you like.

x fucking sucked outside of I See Fire
+ was at least listenable

Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion, B Side
La Roux - Self Titled
Beyonce - Lemonade
Lady GaGa - Fame Monster (maybe not so much anymore)
Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom
Grimes - Art Angels (didn't like visions)

There's probably more but I don't really actively look for pop albums

Thanks, i'll check them out

> that I consider pretty good:

Can you even read? You fucking autist?

Ariana Grande – My Everything
Beyoncé – s/t
Bleachers – Strange Desire
Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion (haven't listened to the B-Sides yet)
Charlie XCX – Sucker
CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto; Ghost Stories
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Drake – Take Care; Nothing Was the Same
dvsn – Sept. 5th
Foster the People – Supermodel
Frank Ocean – nostalgia, ULTRA.; channel ORANGE; Endless; Blonde
Grimes – Art Angels
Jai Paul – s/t
Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid; The Electric Lady
Justin Bieber – Purpose
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience; The 20/20 Experience 2
Kiira – low kii savage
M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream; Wildheart
Rihanna – Anti
Sky Ferriera – As If!; Ghost; Night Time, My Time
Tame Impala – Lonerism; Currents
Walk the Moon – Talking Is Hard
The 1975 – s/t; I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

forgot
Taylor Swift – 1989
not sure how tho

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OP asked for mainstream pop. Half the stuff you listed is indie pop or alternative R&B. Some of it isn't even pop (Daft Punk, Drake).

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>Ed Sheeran
Everything else is good desu

Bright Lights is Ellie's best. Halcyon was good but different, Delirium just gets rid of what made her unique to begin with.

I think her music is still good as pure pop.

Jessy Lanza - Oh No

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the only right answer

This

Seriously how the fuck is that a mainstream pop album. It's neither commercially popular, nor released by a major label, nor is the style of music pop. Synth pop yes. Dance/electronic yes. Straight up pop, no. Unless she sold a lot while I wasn't looking. Is it influenced by pop of past decades? Yup. And indie bands imitating the Beach Boys '60s pop in the 21st century are also not pop. What is pop at one point, inherently isn't in the future. Once it's separated from its original context, gentrified and aestheticized by "patricians," it evades being pop.

>Electra Heart,Trouble in Paradies,Christine and the Queens
>""mainstream""

Jessy Lanza is just alternative pop. Get over yourself.

Have to say, I thought it had some pretty decent songs. It was especially a betterment considering his earlier work

How are those albums not mainstream pop? The only one that might not fit in is Trouble In Paradise.

listening to this atm
it's breddy gud

because they had no billboard 100 songs, so the average mainstream listener wouldn't even know about those albums

how come there aren't any good male pop albums?

Born This Way sucks

This.

The non singles are shit but every single is a goddamn banger and a half.

They're not as bad as the non singles on her other albums, but they're still pretty bad.

all too well is the best track on red

The best IMO

>mainstream pop

>Dem legs
>Pantyhouse

kek

This. Though The Fame Monster is top tiwe

It's shockingly good in comparison to the rest of his work. There's actual decent production and songwriting on the a few of the songs. I was legit surprised to enjoy a couple of the singles

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Haven't listened to this in years. Thanks for the reminder.

it's really not