This December marks the 45th anniversary of David Bowie‘s masterpiece Hunky Dory – meanwhile we still have Blackstar rattling around our heads some 11 months after its release back in January – so we thought we’d take a look at all of the posthumous accolades that the Thin White Duke collected in 2016.
2016: The Year of Bowie? We think so. Here is the long list of posthumous accolades the Thin White Duke collected in 2016.
Brit Awards
Bowie took out the Best Album award at the 2017 Brit Awards for Blackstar.
Brit Global Icon Award
On the 24 February, Bowie won the Brit Global Icon Award, which was collected by actor, singer and friend Gary Oldman.
Grammy Awards
Bowie is nominated for five Grammy awards in 2017 for Blackstar: Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, Best Recording Package and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
He won all five of these awards.
Mercury Prize
Bowie was nominated for Mercury Prize’s Album of the Year for Blackstar, just losing out to grime gun Skepta.
The Guardian
In December, The Guardian announced Blackstar as number 3 on their Best Albums of 2016 list praising it as “an inky labyrinth of human cruelty and frailty shot through with moments of grace and transcendence…haunted, wired, seductive, menacing, mischievous, kind: a final, multi-faceted performance from pop’s great actor.”
Rolling Stone Magazine
In November, the iconic music mag dubbed Blackstar the second-best Album of the Year, handing first place to Beyonce’s Lemonade.
Pitchfork
On December 16, Pitchfork regarded Blackstar as their fourth best album of 2016, calling it “creatively alive.”
NME Awards
At the NME Awards, Bowie won Best Reissue of Five Years (1969 – 1973) and made it to the top of their People of the Year award.
Consequence of Sound
In November Blackstar made it to number 3 on The Consequence of Sound’s Top 50 Albums of the Year.
Billboard
On 13 December, Billboard ranked Blackstar number 4 in the Best Albums of 2016.
Stereogum
On the 1 December, Stereogum awarded Blackstar no.5 on the 50 Best Albums of 2016.
Time Magazine
Days after his death, Bowie graced the cover of Time Magazine. And although Trump was named Time’s Person of the Year, we reckon this would have been far more fitting:
