aka things i think everyone should try to listen to at least once; no particular order

• 10cm - 1.0
• 15& - sugar
• 4men + etribe - you (ep)
• 8eight - 8eight (mini)
• amy winehouse - frank
• beenzino - 24:26
• beyonce - b day
• beyonce - beyonce
• bjork - homogenic
• busker busker - busker busker
• cheeze - recipe!
• d.ear - lovegraphy
• duffy - rockferry
• exid - hippity hop (mini album)
• fiona apple - extraordinary machine
• fiona apple - when the pawn
• fx - pink tape
• iu - modern times
• jooyoung - from me to you
• kanye west - 808s and heartbreak (leaked version)
• kanye west - college dropout
• kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
• lauryn hill - the miseducation of lauryn hill
• lyn - celebration (mini)
• mariah carey - the emancipation of mimi
• navi - hello
• sistar - give it to me
• tara - absolute first album
• verbal jint - go easy
• zion t - red light

2015 update:

• achime - hunch
• alicia keys - songs in a minor
• alicia keys - the diary of alicia keys
• aoa - like a cat (min album)
• apink - luv (mini album)
• apink - une annee
• asa - beautiful imperfection
• azealia banks - broke with expensive taste
• baechigi - vol 4 part 2 (mini)
• baek ji young - ost best (flashback)
• big boi - sir lucious left foot
• big freedia - hitz vol 1
• block b - blockbuster
• block b - h.e.r (mini)
• block b - very good (mini)
• boni - nu one (mini album)
• britney spears - blackout
• brown eyed girls - sixth sense (mini album)
• brown eyed girls - sound g (but honestly, i only love 75% of this album)
• c-real - round 1 (mini album)
• carla bruni - quelqu'un m'a dit
• cold war kids - robbers and cowards
• corinne bailey rae - corinne bailey rae
• d-unit - welcome to business
• davichi - davichi in wonderland (mini album)
• davichi - innocence (mini album)
• duffy - rockferry
• dustin o' halloran - piano solos (piano)
• dustin o' halloran - the great divide (piano)
• e.via - e.viagradation part 1 (mini album)
• elle varner - perfectly imperfect
• elva hsiao - 我愛我 心跳100影音慶功版
• evol - 폭파해줘 (mini)
• fall out boy - from under the cork tree (tbh, i'm not sure if this is rly good or if i'm just super sentimental)
• fall out boy - take this to your grave (ditto)
• feist - reminder
• g dragon - heartbreaker
• g.na - bloom (mini album)
• gain - talk about s.
• gtop - gd and top vol 1
• gummy - loveless (mini album)
• ha:tfelt - me?
• hwayobi - hwayobi
• hwayobi - women like me (mini album)
• hyori - monochrome
• hyorin - love and hate
• hyuna - a talk (mini)
• iu - growing up
• ivy - i be
• ivy - i dance
• j.ae - sentimental (mini album)
• j.lim - music is my life
• jewelry - look at me
• jill scott - the light of the sun
• justin nozuka - holly
• kate nash - made of bricks
• kelis - kelis was here
• ladies' code - code#1 bad girl
• ladies' code - code#2 pretty pretty (mini)
• lady gaga - the fame monster
• lee hi - first love
• lykke li - youth novel
• lyn - metro sexy 7(mini album)
• m.i.a - arular
• maxwell - black summer's night
• mblaw - just blaq (mini)
• mblaw- mona lisa (mini)
• miri ben-ari - the hip hip violinist
• miri ben-ari - the hip hop violinist
• my chemical romance - the black parade
• my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge
• nine muses - prima donna
• nine muses - wild (mini)
• ns yoon g - skinship (mini)
• panic! at the disco - a fever you can't sweat out
• panic! at the disco - pretty.odd
• park jin young - Spring 새로운 사랑에게 보내는 다섯곡의 노래 (mini)
• peggy hsu - snowman
• puer kim - purifier (mini)
• radiohead - in rainbows
• rainbow - gossip girl (mini)
• rainie yang - 10 years of rainie yang live
• rania - just go
• raspberry field - saturday afternoon (mini)
• regina spektor - begin to hope
• regina spektor - songs
• rihanna - loud
• rihanna - talk that talk
• scandal - scandal show
• sistar - alone
• sistar - touch and move
• snsd - gee (mini)
• snsd - genie (mini)
• snsd - girl's generation (koran and jappinese)
• snsd - girl's generation 2: girls and peace (jappin)
• snsd - love and peace (jappin)
• spica - russian roulette
• sung si kyung - first
• the dresden dolls - the dresden dolls
• the dresden dolls - yes virginia
• the killers - hot fuss
• the pipettes - we are the pipettes
• the roots - phrenology
• the ting tings - we started nothing
• trina - amazin'
• trina - back 2 business
• trina - still da baddest
• urban zakapa - (01)
• urban zakapa - (03)
• utada - this is the one
• vampire weekend - vampire weekend
• various - tohoshinki: premimum classical collection 1 & 2
• wa$$up - showtime (mini album)
• wang lee hom - fire power to the max
• winterplay - touche mon amour
• wonder girls - the wonder years
• wonder girls - wonder party (mini)
• wonder girls - wonder world
• ye ara - 눈 (eye)
  
• yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones
• yoari - 맘에 드니?
• young jun - easy (i haven't listened to this is forever but i remember it being good)
• yozoh - my name is yozoh
• yozoh - traveler
• yozoh - 나의 쓸모
• zico - baton track chapter

2017 update:

• ariana grande - dangerous woman
• hyuna - babe
• kelani - sweetsexysavage
• kim chungha - hands on me
• lady gaga - born this way
• lady gaga - joanne
• lizzo - coconut oil
• odd eye circle (loona) - mix and match
• rina sawayama - rina
• sam smith - the thrill of it all
• sza - control