Beyoncé and Beyond: The Best Music of 2021—So Far

What a bizarre and wild six months this has been.

We’re solely midway via 2021 and, already, it seems like this 12 months has lasted a lifetime, no? With all the things that is been happening throughout us, it is exhausting to maintain observe of all of the music that got here out final week, not to mention all the way in which again in January.

Would you imagine it if we advised you that is nonetheless the identical 12 months that noticed the discharge of Selena Gomez and Kesha’s most up-to-date albums? As a result of, launched on Jan. 10 and 31, respectively, that is the trustworthy reality. Like we stated, wild.

However simply because it has been one of probably the most unpredictable years in fashionable historical past does not imply that there hasn’t been any good music price celebrating. (It does imply that we’re all listening to it in remarkably other ways, however that is a complete different story.) With that in thoughts, we thought we would have a look again on the first half of this 12 months and rejoice the releases that we have saved in fixed rotation.