End Of The Roadmap

I have completed all items on my JetPunk roadmap. This includes creating all quizzes in the Biggest Cities by Decade series based on Ollie Bye's "The Largest Cities Throughout History: Each Year", making charts for the most popular songs in USA series & year-end lists, making quizzes of the most popular songs each month in the 70s for Pontiac, and manually verifying the sales, streams, and radio airplay data of all the quizzes in my "Popular Songs in the USA" series that have that data.

I've never listened to a full-length studio album despite being a fan of music, so I'm going to listen to 50 albums from each of these genre categories: rap & R&B, pop & EDM, country & folk, and rock & alternative. I will create one blog for each genre category after I've listened to all of the albums in that category at least once. After all four genre category blogs have been created, I'll listen to all of the albums again and make a final ranking blog to end the challenge. I will listen to re-releases of albums, such as deluxe versions. For deluxe versions, I will listen to the bonus tracks after listening to the original tracklist.

For an album to qualify for this challenge, it must:

1. Be listed on Wikipedia as matching an eligible genre

2. Be a studio album, a compilation album that includes no songs that are on any of the artist's studio albums, or a film soundtrack

3. Be available on streaming platforms as a whole, or be on Wikipedia with a listed tracklist and have all songs available to listen to on YouTube

4. Must be originally in English or have an official English translation; no K-pop albums, J-pop albums, etc. without English translations

For certain controversial artists, I will watch third-party lyric videos on YouTube instead of listening to the music from the artist's page

I will wait a week for recommendations before I look at streaming metrics & ranked lists to fill-out the lists.

Genres: Rap/Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, Neo-Soul

Albums:

1. SOS/Lana by SZA

2. CTRL by SZA

3. Thank Me Later by Drake

4. Take Care by Drake

5. Nothing Was The Same by Drake

6. Views by Drake

7. Scorpion by Drake

8. Care Package by Drake

9. Certified Lover Boy by Drake

10. Honestly, Nevermind by Drake

11. Her Loss by Drake & 21 Savage

12. For All The Dogs by Drake

13. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U by Drake & PartyNextDoor

14. The College Dropout by Kanye West

15. Late Registration by Kanye West

16. Graduation by Kanye West

17. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

18. Watch The Throne by Kanye West & Jay-Z

19. Cruel Summer by Good Music

20. Yeezus by Kanye West

21. The Life Of Pablo by Kanye West

22. Kids See Ghosts by Kanye West & Kid Cudi

23. Ye by Kanye West

24. The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill (replaced Jesus Is King by Kanye West)

25. Donda by Kanye West

26. Donda 2 by Kanye West

27. Madvillainy by Madlib & MF Doom (replaces Vultures 1 by Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign)

28. Section.80 by Kendrick Lamar

29. good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar

30. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

31. untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar

32. DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar

33. Black Panther: The Album by Kendrick Lamar

34. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar

35. GNX by Kendrick Lamar

36. Tha Carter by Lil Wayne

37. Tha Carter II by Lil Wayne

38. Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne

39. Tha Carter IV by Lil Wayne

40. Tha Carter V by Lil Wayne

41. Tha Carter VI by Lil Wayne

42. Illmatic by Nas

43. Stillmatic by Nas

44. Liquid Swords by GZA

45. Aquemini by Outkast

46. Stankonia by Outkast

47. The Forever Story by JID

48. The Slim Shady LP by Eminem

49. The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem

50. The Eminem Show by Eminem

Genres: Pop music, EDM (dubstep, Eurodance, etc.), disco, new wave

1. 808s & Heartbreak by Kanye West

2. Fearless & Fearless (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

3. Speak Now & Speak Now (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

4. Red & Red (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

5. 1989 & 1989 (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift

6. Reputation by Taylor Swift

7. Lover by Taylor Swift

8. folklore by Taylor Swift

9. evermore by Taylor Swift

10. Midnights by Taylor Swift

11. The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift

12. One Of The Boys by Katy Perry

13. Teenage Dream (inc. The Complete Confection) by Katy Perry

14. Prism by Katy Perry

15. Witness by Katy Perry

16. Smile by Katy Perry

17. 143 by Katy Perry

18. brat by Charli XCX

19. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? by Billie Eilish

20. Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish

21. Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish

22. Emails I Can't Send by Sabrina Carpenter

23. Short n' Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter

24. Man's Best Friend by Sabrina Carpenter

25. SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo

26. GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo

27. The Fame & The Fame Monster by Lady GaGa

28. Born This Way by Lady GaGa

29. ARTPOP by Lady GaGa

30. Discovery by Daft Punk (replaces Cheek to Cheek by Lady GaGa & Tony Bennett)

31. Faith by George Michael (replaces Joanne by Lady GaGa)

32. Imaginal Disk by Magladena Bay (replaces A Star Is Born by Lady GaGa & Bradley Cooper)

33. Like A Virgin by Madonna (replaces Chromatica by Lady GaGa)

34. Mayhem by Lady GaGa

35. My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber

36. Believe by Justin Bieber

37. Journals by Justin Bieber

38. Purpose by Justin Bieber

39. Changes by Justin Bieber

40. Justice by Justin Bieber

41. SWAG (inc. SWAG II) by Justin Bieber

42. Yours Truly by Ariana Grande

43. My Everything by Ariana Grande

44. Dangerous Woman by Ariana Grande

45. Sweetener by Ariana Grande

46. Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande

47. Positions by Ariana Grande

48. Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande

49. Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd

50. Starboy by The Weeknd

Genres: Folk, blues, country

Albums:

1. Dangerous: The Double Album by Morgan Wallen

2. One Thing At A Time by Morgan Wallen

3. I'm The Problem by Morgan Wallen

4. What You See Is What You Get by Luke Combs

5. Growin' Up by Luke Combs

6. Gettin' Old by Luke Combs

7. American Heartbreak by Zach Bryan

8. Zach Bryan

9. The Great American Bar Scene by Zach Bryan

10. Taylor Swift

11. Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks

12. Help! by The Beatles

13. Rubber Soul by The Beatles

14. The Beatles

15. Let It Be by The Beatles

16. Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

17. Moving by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

18. In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

19. A Song Will Rise by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

20. See What Tomorrow Brings by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

21. The Peter, Paul and Mary Album by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

22. Album 1700 by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

23. Late Again by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

24. No Easy Walk to Freedom by Peter, Paul and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

25. In These Times by Peter, Paul, and Mary (Added from a recommended artist)

26. Diamonds & Gasoline by Turnpike Troubadors (Added by recommendation)

27. A Long Way From Your Heart by Turnpike Troubadors (Added by recommendation)

28. Stick Season by Noah Kahan (Added by recommendation)

29. The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia (Added by recommendation)

30. Tennessee by Lucero (Added by recommendation)

31. The Limestone Kid by Parker McCollum (Added by recommendation)

32. Sackcloth n' Ashes by Sixteen Horsepower (Added by recommendation)

33. Trace by Son Volt (Added by recommendation)

34. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen (Added by recommendation)

35. Metamodern Sounds in Country Music by Sturgill Simpson (Added by recommendation)

36. Purgatory by Tyler Childers (Added by recommendation)

37. March 16-20, 1992 by Uncle Tupelo (Added by recommendation)

38. Harvest Moon by Neil Young (Added by recommendation)

39. Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs by Marty Robbins (Added by recommendation)

40. Southeastern by Jason Isbell (Added by recommendation)

41. Garage by Cross Canadian Ragweed (Added by recommendation)

42. DeAnn by Zach Bryan (Added by recommendation)

43. Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going by Shaboozey (Added by recommendation)

44. Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

45. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

46. The Times They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

47. Another Side Of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

48. Bringing It All Home by Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

49. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

50. Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan (Added from a recommended artist)

Genres: rock (grunge, heavy-metal, soft rock, etc.), alternative, rock & roll

Albums:

1. [HYBRID THEORY] by Linkin Park

2. Meteora by Linkin Park

3. One More Light by Linkin Park

4. From Zero by Linkin Park

5. Please Please Me by The Beatles

6. A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles

7. Revolver by The Beatles

8. The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground (replaces Introducing...The Beatles by The Beatles)

9. The Doors (replaces Meet The Beatles! by The Beatles)

10. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

11. Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles

12. Abbey Road by The Beatles

13. Hot Fuss by The Killers (Added by recommendation)

14. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (Added by recommendation)

15. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (Added by recommendation)

16. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne (Added by recommendation)

17. Hello! by Status Quo (Added by recommendation)

18. Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf (Added by recommendation)

19. OK Computer by Radiohead

20. Cardinal by Pinegrove (Added by recommendation)

21. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco (Added by recommendation)

22. The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse (Added by recommendation)

23. Endless Oklahoma Sky by John Moreland (Added by recommendation)

24. Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses

25. Nevermind by Nirvana

26. In Utero by Nirvana

27. Is This It by The Strokes (Added from a recommended artist)

28. Room on Fire by The Strokes (Added from a recommended artist)

29. First Impressions of Earth by The Strokes (Added from a recommended artist)

30. Angles by The Strokes (Added from a recommended artist)

31. Comedown Machine by The Strokes (Added from a recommended artist)

32. The New Abnormal by The Strokes (Added from a recommended artist)

33. Funeral by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

34. Neon Bible by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

35. The Suburbs by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

36. Reflektor by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

37. Everything Now by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

38. We by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

39. Pink Elephant by Arcade Fire (Added from a recommended artist)

40. The White Stripes (Added from a recommended artist)

41. De Stijl by the White Stripes (Added from a recommended artist)

42. White Blood Cells by the White Stripes (Added from a recommended artist)

43. Elephant by the White Stripes (Added from a recommended artist)

44. Get Behind Me Satan by the White Stripes (Added from a recommended artist)

45. Icky Thump by the White Stripes (Added from a recommended artist)

46. Led Zeppelin (in series with Led Zeppelin IV)

47. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin (in series with Led Zeppelin IV)

48. Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin (in series with Led Zeppelin IV)

49. Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin (added by recommendation)

50. Sticky Fingers by Rolling Stones (added by recommendation)