The magazine has unveiled its inaugural “300 Greatest Albums of All Time” list, and two of Frank Ocean’s records are ranked among the best of the best.
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Blonde is the fifth greatest album ever made, according to the music platform.
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“There is some beauty in chaos.” Frank Ocean headlines weekend 1 of Coachella on the main stage at the Empire Polo Club, delivering an array of new remixes in perhaps his most unique and controversial concert to date. We examine the event and its aftermath, with exclusive reporting from blonded.blog’s Odysseus.
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An undergraduate trio from the College of William & Mary beat over 16,000 university-level teams at COMAP’s 2021 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling by designing a quantitative way to evaluate any musician’s influence in both their own and other genres. Their math model ranked Frank Ocean above all his peers in this millennium.
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Frank Ocean’s albums debut on the entertainment magazine’s revised list of classics.
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Frank Ocean’s 2016 studio album takes bronze in the “100 Best Albums” of the decade, voted on by contributors to the world’s largest collection of lyrics and musical knowledge. His 2012 studio album is not far behind.
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After a decade filled with incredible records, “the most trusted voice in music” places Frank Ocean above all others.
Read MoreIt was announced today that the third season would be centered around two of Frank Ocean's records, Channel Orange and Blonde.
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The new mini-documentary is part video scrapbook and part time capsule, making a good primer for those who weren’t waiting with bated breath for the album’s arrival.
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Despite returning to a civilian lifestyle, he has continued that tradition and shared some of his favorite songs of this year.
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Ocean’s lead Blonded single “Chanel” has been ranking in the top spots across the web’s most reputable hip-hop resources, and the Genius community agrees that it’s a killer track that deserves to be remembered.
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Complex dropped their “Best Songs of 2017” list today. Of the 50 tracks that make up the list, Frank grabbed 3 slots for himself and shared one more as a featured artist.
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Pigeons & Planes has released their list of 2017’s top songs. “Chanel” takes #2 in the countdown.
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Frank Ocean receives a glowing write-up on The New York Times following his Panorama Music Festival performance.
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In Boys Don’t Cry, Italian motorsport enthusiast and blogger Federico Aliprandi wrote a two-page editorial titled “Active Analysis on the Superiority of Lesser Objects,” in which he shares his views on 20 compact cars from various years, makes, and models.
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Time named Ocean in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. John Legend wrote a blurb about him for a special issue of the magazine.
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Universal Music Japan released a CD edition of Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange with a special booklet. It features Japanese translations of Ocean’s song lyrics and a foreword by Minako Ikeshiro, a music journalist based in Tokyo. In her note, Ikeshiro captures the zeitgeist surrounding the up-and-coming U.S. artist, both in Japan and abroad.
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“Whoever you are. Wherever you are… I’m starting to think we’re a lot alike.”
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In a Tumblr post, Frank Ocean shared a clip of Kim Burrell singing her 1997 song “Home” with a note about his and his family’s religious upbringing. Ocean says he never performed in a church choir or band, but he looks up to Burrell as a gospel singer.
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