2006 was an all-female cast of some of the best and most decorated individuals in the business. That year brought us two of the most consistently inventive R&B albums in recent memory with Nelly Furtado and Beyoncé's releases. We were also treated to two beautiful Nordic pop confections: Margaret Berger's Pretty Scary Silver Fairy and Bertine Zetlitz's My Italian Greyhound. Our tour of Scandinavia was made complete with the brilliant and mind-bogglingly-horrifying The Knife and their ultra-special (in the good way) Silent Shout. We also got something we never thought possible: a mainstream-crossover queer empowerment record thanks to the fearless Gossip.Elsewhere P!nk's comeback proved she was still leader of the pop/rock pack, Regina Spektor finally broke through to a wider audience with the heart-tugging plucks of "Fidelity". There was also musical innovation of the best sort from My Brightest Diamond, with their noire burlesque-cum-folk inventions, and Joanna Newsom released one of the most unconventional and ornately beauteous popular music albums of all time.
- Bertine Zetlitz - My Italian Greyhound
- Beyoncé - B'Day
- Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- The Knife - Silent Shout
- Margaret Berger - Pretty Scary Silver Fairy
- Nelly Furtado - Loose
- P!nk - I'm Not Dead
- Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
- My Brightest Diamond - Bring me the Workhorse
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