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these artists were obviously never told
that waiting is the hardest part to 20
million well-connected Carberry whoa
whoa
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 unexpected album releases
for this list we’re looking at
unconventional album releases or ones
that came out mere days or weeks after
an announcement was made about this one
first I bought this one a truck I bought
this one out
how about this one a model we’re also
including cases where audiences had no
idea the musicians or artists were even
recording and then dropped an album
number ten MBV My Bloody Valentine
my belated Valentine hadn’t released a
new album since 1991 and it actually
broken up in 1997 before reuniting 10
years later
so when nbv dropped out of nowhere in
2013 it was more than a bit surprising
pree breakup the irish shoegaze legends
recorded a ton of material that went
unused and after reuniting they finally
got around to finishing their long
delayed third album but failed to
provide a release date until February
2nd 2003 on that day they also
relaunched their website and put the
album up for sale in both physical and
digital forms the comeback of My Bloody
Valentine resulted in their website
crashing and massive critical acclaim
number nine no love deep web Death Grips
leave it to one of the most experimental
unconventional groups of the decade to
go with the unorthodox release method in
2012 fans were ready for a sophomore
album from the hip hop group with them
even canceling an entire tour just so
they could work on was originally set
for release on October 23rd but after
epic their label refused to let them
release it then the grips took matters
into their own hands and released the
record as a digital download on their
website on October 1st the incident led
Epic to drop the band and the band
rebelled by using a rather risky
uncensored album cover just google it
number eight black messiah D’Angelo and
the Vanguard it had been 14 years since
the R&B artist and sex symbol that is
D’Angelo had released a record as a 2004
on it didn’t look like we were getting
any new material from the guy behind
untitled how does it feel
but just as 2014 was coming to a close
D’Angelo finally dropped his
long-awaited third album
black Messiah was originally set to come
out the following year but it was sped
up due to the public outcry surrounding
the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric
garner
D’Angelo’s return was met with rave
reviews and commercial success hitting
the top five of the Billboard 200 and
topping the R&B hip-hop charts
my danger with the word one I hate
number seven if you’re reading this it’s
too late
Drake I’ll admit it I’ve made it out of
bed you haven’t been a member like a
minute I tell you that a minute but
alone you really did business Drake is a
prolific artist to say the least
seemingly releasing a new single or
mixtape every other week in 2015 though
everyone was looking forward to his
fourth solo album rumored to be called
views from the 6 due later that year I
got enemies got a lot of enemies got a
lot of people trying to join me at a
synergy but much to everyone’s surprise
on February 13th of that year Drizzy
dropped his cryptically titled fourth
mixtape to an unsuspecting audience
I was running 36 with my whoa I should
go while Drake insisted on calling it a
mixtape it was fully featured enough to
be considered an album fans meanwhile
were more than tied it over and the
project debuted at the top of the
Billboard 200
number six Star Wars Wilco Michelle
child is
on July 16 2015
all frog fans woke up to find that
acclaimed band Wilco had just released a
new album online and they were giving it
away for free
this was the second album the band had
released through their own label with
the first one they had dropped without
any warning while it wasn’t a huge chart
success by mainstream standards it was
an indie darling that received rave
reviews
many publications even named it as one
of the best albums of 2015 and as
probably expected from the tracklist and
the covers rather unspeak at the album
has nothing to do with Star Wars go
figure
I got a boner fear I don’t want you
monkey mouth number five to pimp a
butterfly kendrick lamar I’m a voracious
following the wild success of good kid
maad city in 2012 kendrick lamar took
his time with his follow-up record as he
began to release new singles near the
end of 2014 and early 2015
kendrick announced the album just two
weeks before it was set to come out on
March 23rd however the album was leaked
on to Spotify and iTunes a full eight
days before that apparently caused by a
mistake on the part of the record labels
then we Kobe alright alright we gon be
all right it was quickly taken off
iTunes after its initial release which
remains on Spotify where it broke
several streaming records and received
rave reviews with many calling it an
instant classic chocolate LP to go deep
yelling at me continuously I could see
your defense mechanism is my decision
like these walls down that’s my religion
number for Songs of Innocence you too
unsure to the next one there’ll be one
home this is the album on the list that
a majority of you have probably heard
whether you wanted to or not
at an apple press conference in
September 2014 you too came on stage to
perform a song from their upcoming album
then Apple CEO Tim Cook joined to drop a
bombshell the album was finished and
already sitting in the iTunes library of
every user free of charge
a comma see
even though it might have seemed like
Apple and you two were doing fans a
favor Songs of Innocence became infamous
due to its unexpected digital release
which even resulted in thousands of
iTunes customers rallying against Apple
for putting an album in their library
without their consent
number three the life of Pablo Kanye
West
after 2013’s minimalist Jesus the
enigmatic Kanye West built up hype for
his seventh studio album for a long
period of time
he quenched his fans appetite with
sporadic single releases and constant
tidal changes with the album starting
development as so help me God
then switching to swish in waves before
settling on a title influenced by Pablo
Picasso my babe Rihanna oh shit light
day this is a God rain this is a God
rain and then during his performance on
Saturday Night Live On February 13 2016
the life of Pablo finally dropped
exclusively on title except this
wouldn’t be its only release as Kanye
has modified and added several tracks
onto the album since its debut making
the life of Pablo the first album fully
release that might never be fully
finished for all the girls I get dick
from Calle West if you see him in the
streets give him Calle ‘s best typical
Yeezy move I guess I get what I deserved
on a bird on the streets they heard from
oh I guess I get what I deserved on a
top down on my
in the dirt on him number two in
rainbows Radiohead for their seventh
album the famously weird and
experimental alt rock legends Radiohead
decided to forego industry practices
leading to its release
since their contract with label EMI had
ended at that point radio have decided
to keep information about their upcoming
projects secret until ten days before
it’s October release they announce that
the album would be released digitally
while also saying that people will be
able to pay whatever they want for it
including the ability to pay nothing at
all for
in rainbows became a major game changer
for the industry and the band kept up
the secret release schedule with their
next two albums 2011’s the King of Limbs
and 2016’s
a moon shaped pool
before we reveal our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
got the best bow sound I’m so special
sound boy there we go this my way perry
fly there’s a recognizer I’m trying baby
well it’s that me like an animal with
these cameras all in my grill flashing
lights flashing lights number one
Beyonce Beyonce baby I want you can keep
your eyes up up better dad
shoo all hail the queen on the early
morning of December 13th 2013
Beyonce blindsided the music industry by
releasing her fifth studio album with no
announcement hype or fanfare becoming
the biggest pop star to drop a record
literally out of nowhere
you everything
once the world recovered from the shock
they sent the album to number one on the
Billboard 200 and many artists soon
adopted the practice of unexpected album
releases there’s a reason why a majority
of the entries on this list came out
after 2013 Queen Bee started a
phenomenon with her self-titled record
and expanded on the practice she started
by doing the same thing with her 2016
follow up lemonade information so do you
agree with our list
what albums caught you by surprise for
more musical top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
these artists were obviously never told
that waiting is the hardest part to 20
million well-connected Carberry whoa
whoa
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 unexpected album releases
for this list we’re looking at
unconventional album releases or ones
that came out mere days or weeks after
an announcement was made about this one
first I bought this one a truck I bought
this one out
how about this one a model we’re also
including cases where audiences had no
idea the musicians or artists were even
recording and then dropped an album
number ten MBV My Bloody Valentine
my belated Valentine hadn’t released a
new album since 1991 and it actually
broken up in 1997 before reuniting 10
years later
so when nbv dropped out of nowhere in
2013 it was more than a bit surprising
pree breakup the irish shoegaze legends
recorded a ton of material that went
unused and after reuniting they finally
got around to finishing their long
delayed third album but failed to
provide a release date until February
2nd 2003 on that day they also
relaunched their website and put the
album up for sale in both physical and
digital forms the comeback of My Bloody
Valentine resulted in their website
crashing and massive critical acclaim
number nine no love deep web Death Grips
leave it to one of the most experimental
unconventional groups of the decade to
go with the unorthodox release method in
2012 fans were ready for a sophomore
album from the hip hop group with them
even canceling an entire tour just so
they could work on was originally set
for release on October 23rd but after
epic their label refused to let them
release it then the grips took matters
into their own hands and released the
record as a digital download on their
website on October 1st the incident led
Epic to drop the band and the band
rebelled by using a rather risky
uncensored album cover just google it
number eight black messiah D’Angelo and
the Vanguard it had been 14 years since
the R&B artist and sex symbol that is
D’Angelo had released a record as a 2004
on it didn’t look like we were getting
any new material from the guy behind
untitled how does it feel
but just as 2014 was coming to a close
D’Angelo finally dropped his
long-awaited third album
black Messiah was originally set to come
out the following year but it was sped
up due to the public outcry surrounding
the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric
garner
D’Angelo’s return was met with rave
reviews and commercial success hitting
the top five of the Billboard 200 and
topping the R&B hip-hop charts
my danger with the word one I hate
number seven if you’re reading this it’s
too late
Drake I’ll admit it I’ve made it out of
bed you haven’t been a member like a
minute I tell you that a minute but
alone you really did business Drake is a
prolific artist to say the least
seemingly releasing a new single or
mixtape every other week in 2015 though
everyone was looking forward to his
fourth solo album rumored to be called
views from the 6 due later that year I
got enemies got a lot of enemies got a
lot of people trying to join me at a
synergy but much to everyone’s surprise
on February 13th of that year Drizzy
dropped his cryptically titled fourth
mixtape to an unsuspecting audience
I was running 36 with my whoa I should
go while Drake insisted on calling it a
mixtape it was fully featured enough to
be considered an album fans meanwhile
were more than tied it over and the
project debuted at the top of the
Billboard 200
number six Star Wars Wilco Michelle
child is
on July 16 2015
all frog fans woke up to find that
acclaimed band Wilco had just released a
new album online and they were giving it
away for free
this was the second album the band had
released through their own label with
the first one they had dropped without
any warning while it wasn’t a huge chart
success by mainstream standards it was
an indie darling that received rave
reviews
many publications even named it as one
of the best albums of 2015 and as
probably expected from the tracklist and
the covers rather unspeak at the album
has nothing to do with Star Wars go
figure
I got a boner fear I don’t want you
monkey mouth number five to pimp a
butterfly kendrick lamar I’m a voracious
following the wild success of good kid
maad city in 2012 kendrick lamar took
his time with his follow-up record as he
began to release new singles near the
end of 2014 and early 2015
kendrick announced the album just two
weeks before it was set to come out on
March 23rd however the album was leaked
on to Spotify and iTunes a full eight
days before that apparently caused by a
mistake on the part of the record labels
then we Kobe alright alright we gon be
all right it was quickly taken off
iTunes after its initial release which
remains on Spotify where it broke
several streaming records and received
rave reviews with many calling it an
instant classic chocolate LP to go deep
yelling at me continuously I could see
your defense mechanism is my decision
like these walls down that’s my religion
number for Songs of Innocence you too
unsure to the next one there’ll be one
home this is the album on the list that
a majority of you have probably heard
whether you wanted to or not
at an apple press conference in
September 2014 you too came on stage to
perform a song from their upcoming album
then Apple CEO Tim Cook joined to drop a
bombshell the album was finished and
already sitting in the iTunes library of
every user free of charge
a comma see
even though it might have seemed like
Apple and you two were doing fans a
favor Songs of Innocence became infamous
due to its unexpected digital release
which even resulted in thousands of
iTunes customers rallying against Apple
for putting an album in their library
without their consent
number three the life of Pablo Kanye
West
after 2013’s minimalist Jesus the
enigmatic Kanye West built up hype for
his seventh studio album for a long
period of time
he quenched his fans appetite with
sporadic single releases and constant
tidal changes with the album starting
development as so help me God
then switching to swish in waves before
settling on a title influenced by Pablo
Picasso my babe Rihanna oh shit light
day this is a God rain this is a God
rain and then during his performance on
Saturday Night Live On February 13 2016
the life of Pablo finally dropped
exclusively on title except this
wouldn’t be its only release as Kanye
has modified and added several tracks
onto the album since its debut making
the life of Pablo the first album fully
release that might never be fully
finished for all the girls I get dick
from Calle West if you see him in the
streets give him Calle ‘s best typical
Yeezy move I guess I get what I deserved
on a bird on the streets they heard from
oh I guess I get what I deserved on a
top down on my
in the dirt on him number two in
rainbows Radiohead for their seventh
album the famously weird and
experimental alt rock legends Radiohead
decided to forego industry practices
leading to its release
since their contract with label EMI had
ended at that point radio have decided
to keep information about their upcoming
projects secret until ten days before
it’s October release they announce that
the album would be released digitally
while also saying that people will be
able to pay whatever they want for it
including the ability to pay nothing at
all for
in rainbows became a major game changer
for the industry and the band kept up
the secret release schedule with their
next two albums 2011’s the King of Limbs
and 2016’s
a moon shaped pool
before we reveal our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
got the best bow sound I’m so special
sound boy there we go this my way perry
fly there’s a recognizer I’m trying baby
well it’s that me like an animal with
these cameras all in my grill flashing
lights flashing lights number one
Beyonce Beyonce baby I want you can keep
your eyes up up better dad
shoo all hail the queen on the early
morning of December 13th 2013
Beyonce blindsided the music industry by
releasing her fifth studio album with no
announcement hype or fanfare becoming
the biggest pop star to drop a record
literally out of nowhere
you everything
once the world recovered from the shock
they sent the album to number one on the
Billboard 200 and many artists soon
adopted the practice of unexpected album
releases there’s a reason why a majority
of the entries on this list came out
after 2013 Queen Bee started a
phenomenon with her self-titled record
and expanded on the practice she started
by doing the same thing with her 2016
follow up lemonade information so do you
agree with our list
what albums caught you by surprise for
more musical top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
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