Beyoncé

“i didn’t want to release my music the way I’ve done it,” Beyoncé said of this historic surpise-drop LP. Her fifth solo album showed off her musical scope and feminist outreach. She had high-profile collabs: “Superpower” with Frank Ocean; “Flawless” with Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; “Drunk in Love” with husband Jay-Z. But Beyoncé proved that nobody else was on her level.