Mary J. Blige
Every album we have reviewed, graded S to F.
- Albums graded
- 13
- Highest grade
- Average grade
- Graded S
- 1
- Span
- 1992 to 2022
Every album
13 albums, 1992 to 2022, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.
S tier
A tier
B tier
C tier
D tier
The records
Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.
2022Good Morning GorgeousA comfortable, competent legacy record that does not need to prove anything and duly does not.
2017Strength of a WomanA divorce album from a woman who built a career on pain, and it is oddly hard to sit with.
2014The London SessionsThe late career swerve that worked: she flew to London, met the right writers, and sounded curious again.
2011My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1)Naming it after the masterpiece was a promise nothing inside it comes close to keeping.
2009Stronger with Each TearChasing the radio of the moment, and getting there a season or two late.
2007Growing PainsSolid, adult, well sung, and almost entirely made of things she had already told us.
2005The BreakthroughA colossal commercial comeback with one of her three or four best singles at the front of it.
2003Love & LifeThe reunion everybody wanted, delivered nine years too late and with nothing left to say.
2001No More DramaOne immortal single, one enormous title track, and a lot of album stretched between them.
1999MaryThe grown up, live band record: tasteful, well sung, and short on songs you remember.
1997Share My WorldShe leaves the old team, hires everybody in town, and comes out sounding free.
1994My LifeOne of the great depression records, sung by someone who was not sure she would survive making it.
1992What's the 411?The album that put a soul singer on hip hop drums and invented a whole lane doing it.