ALBUMS (10 each)
1. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
5. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
6. Feist - The Reminder
7. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
8. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
9. Wilco - Blue Sky Blue
10. Sigur Ros - Hvarf-Heim

TRACKS
1. Beirut - Nantes
2. Jay-Z - Success ft. Nas
3. Band Of Horses - Is There a Ghost
4. Feist - 1234
5. Arcade Fire - Intervention
6. Radiohead - 15 Step
7. Brother Ali - The Puzzle

ARTISTS
1. Radiohead
2. Kanye West
3. Feist
4. Jay-Z
5. Beirut

COMMENTS
Comment: The Shins will probably end up left out of a lot of people´s list because the album released leaked quite a while before 2007 even started, and that is a shame because its quality cannot be denied.
Additional note: Many of the albums in my top 10 were ones I wasn´t that impressed with at first listen that ended up growing on me a lot. Including Feist, Beirut, Wilco, Band Of Horses and even Arcade Fire.

I chose to do a seperate top 10 list for Hip Hop/Rap albums because I find it very hard to mix genres in these lists. Also because I write specifically only about Hip Hop on SitDownStandUp.com. See below.

01. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
02. Jay-Z - American Gangster
03. Kanye West - Graduation
04. Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
05. Talib Kweli - Eardrum
06. Little Brother - Get Back
07. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
08. Freeway - Free At Last
09. Pharoahe Monch - Desire
10. El P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

Honorable mentions: DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Return of the Magnificent, KRS-One & Marley Marl - Hip-Hop Lives, Joell Ortiz - The Bodega Chronicles, Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab

The whole thought process for putting together this list can be summed up as: Which album did I listen to a lot, and will I continue to listen to. For example I really dug Common's Finding Forever for the first week or two, and then I was never played again. The reason that Ghostface Killah is merely an honorable mention is because I really just haven't lived with it enough. American Gangster is as high as it is because, even though there are some duds, some of the songs on there are better than any songs on any of the other albums. Joell shows most promise and is rookie of the year. 8 Diagrams is a sonic experiment and a step into the unknown for the Clan by way of RZA and I think it's visionary. It grows with each listen.