Beck, Haim and Drake
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With 2016 coming to a close, we've already recapped the best and worst of the year in just about every way we could think of. All that remains now is to look forward to the year to come, and with the release calendar already starting to fill up for the first few months of 2017, it seems like a good time to get excited for what's on the horizon. So let's take a look at 40 of the albums we're most anticipating for 2017 — some with set titles and dates, some still whispers in the wind without official confirmation, but all reasons that 2017 should be just as big as 2016. Won't be long until we're reminiscing fondly about some of these albums, too.