#9
The Big Day — Chance the Rapper
The album that turned indie darling into cautionary tale.
No album this decade squandered goodwill faster than The Big Day. Chance the Rapper's debut studio album, following three Grammy-winning mixtapes, landed with just 77 on Metacritic and triggered a brutal 71% second-week sales plunge — the steepest drop of any album on this list. Its 22 tracks obsess over domestic bliss with Hallmark-card sincerity, but where Heartbreak on a Full Moon buries you in sheer volume, The Big Day fails with a single, suffocating theme. That 77 score is still 12 points higher than Chris Brown's record, yet Chance's fall from critical darling to punchline feels steeper because it happened overnight.
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