To get a full picture of the year's critical consensus in music, we turned to the reviews aggregator Metacritic to rank the most well-received albums of 2017. Note: Metacritic's ranking ...

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Here is the full list of the 10 bestselling albums in the U.S. in 2017.