Even if we are only five months into the new year, some artists have reached their lyrical peak, achieving new feats and allowing themselves to approach new boundaries. Now looking at the recently released albums of this year according to metacritic.com, a website dedicated to averaging critics receptions over pieces of work, like an album or movie. So from the biggest music stars today, how does their new music matchup with others?

10. "Thank you" – Meghan Trainor

Metacritic score: 60

Her second studio album piggybacks off her first album of women empowerment. With the catchy single, "No," she once again allows herself to produce a song that catches almost everyone's attention. As said best from the Boston Globe, "Thank you, but it’ll sound great pumping out of the radio—which is, after all, Trainor’s true medium."

9. "This is what the Truth Feels Like" – Gwen Stefani

Metacritic score: 62

Rolling Stone said it best: "This is the first solo album in a decade from one of the 90s most improbably long-running superstars—the dowager countess of our nation's ska moms." Gwen Stefani's "Truth" allows for her vulnerable side to be exposed. "They're all gonna say I'm rebounding, so rebound all over me."

8. "Views" – Drake

Metacritic score: 68

"'Views' arrives with real expectations. Taken on its own, it’s another sumptuously produced, artfully crafted statement from one of the few rap stars with a truly individualistic aesthetic. It’s also too long and stubbornly low energy, nowhere near the knockout Drake’s been building it up to be since practically before he began recording it." – The A.V. Club

7. "ANTI" – Rihanna

Metacritic score: 73

"'ANTI' is a perfect title—the record is anti-top 40, antithetical to many of Rihanna’s prior strengths, and honestly, a little anticlimactic. And yet, like anything else Rihanna has ever done, it is a strangely compelling musical artifact in its own right. The finished product is just as bizarre as the journey to its release." – Pretty Much Amazing

6. "TWENTY88" – Big Sean and Jhene Aiko

Metacritic score: 75

"'TWENTY88' is a pleasant surprise from two artists who are the top of their respective games. Their chemistry is unquestionable and the music derived from that unique harmony is constantly improving. Whether this is a complete one-off project or if they continue to make music under this duo moniker remains to be seen but for now, these eight songs will tide over the hopeless romantic in everyone." – Hip Hop Dox

5. "The Life of Pablo" – Kanye West

Metacritic score: 75

"Rather, Mr. West—who calls himself a “38-year-old 8-year-old” on this album—has perfected the art of aesthetic and intellectual bricolage, shape-shifting in real time and counting on listeners to keep up. More than on any of his previous albums, 'Pablo' reflects that rambling, fearsome energy." – The New York Times

4. "Dangerous Woman" – Ariana Grande

Metacritic score: 77

"It’s largely about Ariana finding fulfillment in men; the title track fuses Bond-theme grandeur with an electrified stomp, its lyrics detailing Grande’s push toward bad-girl-dom." – Boston Globe

3. "Untitled Unmastered." – Kendrick Lamar

Meracritic score: 86

"His harrowed and ongoing metamorphosis into a butterfly is the narrative he’s chosen and is the story he’ll likely will stick with for the foreseeable future, but 'untitled unmastered.' shows that the holes in his willed chrysalis might be more interesting than the beauty promised by the cocoon." – Paste Magazine

2. "Coloring Book" – Chance the Rapper

Metacritic score: 91

"'Coloring Book' affirms Chance’s place as one of hip-hop’s most promising—and most uplifting—young stars. As he notes during his intricate verse on the mixtape’s closing reprise of 'Blessings,' his music will 'make you remember how to smile good.'" – Entertainment Weekly

1. "Lemonade" – Beyoncé

Metacritic score: 93

"But in the meantime she sings wholeheartedly, encapsulates deep dilemmas in terse singalong lines and touches on ideas and emotions that so many people feel. She is a star whose world is vastly different from that of her listeners. But in matters of the heart, with their complications and paradoxes, Beyoncé joins all of us." – The New York Times

The only thing left to do is have Frank Ocean release his album. It's been four years too long.