The 50 Best Albums Of 2023 So Far

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. 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. The floodgates were officially open, and 2022 never really looked back from there.