No rock album this decade could keep pace with its crackling guitar riffs, thrashing drums and go-for-broke lyricism – though oh, did they try. Japandroids’ sophomore album is the definition of dogged, the sound of a band that laid all its tricks out on the table as though every note could be their last. Its 35-minute runtime flies by at breakneck speed, its only breathers bookending the album in the form of literal fireworks that both herald its start and revel in its conclusion. ANNIE REUTERĬelebration Rock is a sprint, not a marathon. 1 hits), and the poignant ballad “Hello World” - and established the group as a household name, while opening the doors for the trio to tour overseas, helping to expand country music globally. Need You Now produced three additional singles - the nostalgic “American Honey” and feel-good “Our Kind of Love” (both Country Airplay No. Propelled by the title track, a global smash which has been certified 9x Platinum by the RIAA, the project garnered five trophies at the 2011 Grammys. Lady Antebellum cemented their stardom with the release of sophomore album Need You Now in 2010. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now Courtesy Photo And sure, Jack couldn’t appreciate the pop-brilliance of “Why Did You Do That?” but hey, we wish he would have taken another look at it.
From Jackson’s opening riffing on “Black Eyes,” to the closing of Ally’s Whitney-inspired “I’ll Never Love Again” - with the indelible “Shallow” in the middle, of course - Gaga and Cooper designed a fully realized work that transcends the film itself, allowing it to exist on its own as a piece of art. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born Soundtrack (2018)Ī Star Is Born, the soundtrack, is many things - a meta-take on how an artist evolves in their career when thrown into the pop machine, a reflection on one’s unwillingness to change, a coherent story that tells the rise of one popular performer (Lady Gaga’s Ally) alongside the fall of another (Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine), and a great pop-rock album that will stand the test of time. At the beginning of the 2010s, many predicted the slow death of the album - but at the decade’s end, the format still seems absolutely vital, if forever changed. Here are the Billboard staff’s 100 favorite albums from the decade that was.ġ00.
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