Album sales are not really the best metric for judging a person's level of success, and I am not about to try and dig through charities newsletters to find out who donated the most. However I feel confident in my ability to decide what artists had their stock rise the highest.

Today’s list was a particularly hard one to put together. All the other lists have much smaller fields of possible entrants so for me to narrow this year down to its ten best tracks and four honorable mentions was genuinely wreaking havoc on my brain. The other major issue with this list is finding the balance between objectivity and subjectivity.

Every month we get a brand new crop of hip-hop albums released for the public’s listening pleasure. Usually there are anywhere between five and ten really solid releases that fans of various different genres can appreciate.