Chris BrownBest Chris Brown Albums Ranked

Exclusive (Expanded Edition)

rollingstone

7.0

“It’s been a long stretch between Usher albums — long enough for Chris Brown to build a whole career, growing from a temporary substitute to an undeniably major pop star. He seals the deal with Exclusive, an all-grown-up album on a level with Justin Timberlake’s Justified, Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad or even Bobby Brown’s […]”

F.A.M.E. (Expanded Edition)

rollingstone

6.0

“In 2009, on the heels of his felony conviction in the beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna, Chris Brown released Grafitti, a plodding album that included shrilly defensive responses to his infamy. This time, Brown takes a smarter approach: He’s concentrated on making great songs. F.A.M.E. boasts blockbuster hits ("Deuces," "No Bullshit," "Yeah 3X," "Look at […]”

X (Expanded Edition)

rollingstone

5.0

“Chris Brown's sixth album is adventurous musically and a total mess lyrically – it's almost defiantly oblivious to his past as a domestic-abuser. Throughout, Brown plays the victim: He pretends he's a spurned lover ("X"), claims he was lied to ("Stereotype," which opens with the line "Why are my hands bleeding?") and only engages in self-reflection on a set of sad-sack EDM tracks. It's a shame, be”

Fan of a Fan the Album (Expanded Edition)

rollingstone

4.0

““[Suge Knight] tellin’ me he think I could be bigger than Pac,” claims Tory Lanez on “MAWA Interlude x Lunch Tray,” a track from his new album Peterson. Recorded over the past several months while he serves out a 10-year sentence in California Correctional Institution for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, it’s a 20-track data dump that recasts the onetime Canadian hitmaker as an incarcerated Black mar”

Fortune (Expanded Edition)

rollingstone

4.0

“Brown’s fifth LP sounds great on the surface: "Bassline" is based on an elegant dubstep wobble, and his vocal on "Stuck on Stupid" matches its midtempo grandeur. But deep listening means getting cozy with a guy so reviled mosquitoes won’t bite him; Brown brags about his extra-large condoms, and, on "Don’t Judge Me," turns a […]”

BROWN

pitchfork

1.3

“Chris Brown’s soulless, hit-chasing new album doesn’t justify his return to the public eye.”