Surely, someone has gifted you an iTunes or Amazon gift card over the holiday season. This week, we're helping you spend, spend, spend by posting our picks for the best albums of 2007, tailored to your LoveStage—from singles-to-the-dance-floor anthems to couples-in-the-bedroom ballads.

In 2007 alone, Britney has gone from married to divorced, long-locked to shear-shorn, troubled mother to mother in legal trouble. If her October 30 comeback album, Blackout, full of rousing dance tracks, doesn't scream "new beginnings!", we're not sure what does.

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Surely, someone has gifted you an iTunes or Amazon gift card over the holiday season. This week, we’re helping you spend, spend, spend by posting our picks for the best albums of 2007, tailored to your LoveStage—from singles-to-the-dance-floor anthems to couples-in-the-bedroom ballads.

Winehouse’s union with Blake Fielder-Civil is ironclad enough to withstand addiction, fame, and the occasional physical row, making Back to Black this year’s top commitment album. Her soulful voice is smoky for a reason, but it’s sincere, too—and that mix can prove romantic to every taken lady, from hipster to grandma (or those who are both), any night … Read More

Surely, someone has gifted you an iTunes or Amazon gift card over the holiday season. This week, we’re helping you spend, spend, spend by posting our picks for the best albums of 2007, tailored to your LoveStage—from singles-to-the-dance-floor anthems to couples-in-the-bedroom ballads.

Canadian songstress Leslie Feist has been a raunchy electro-clash backup dancer, an indie-rock hippie, and an NPR favorite. But like a newly betrothed couple, she has finally settled down—as a ’70s-AM radio-pop star. The Reminder is a stunningly beautiful album celebrating love, nature, and the well-placed banjo pluck.

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Surely, someone has gifted you an iTunes or Amazon gift card over the holiday season. This week, we’re helping you spend, spend, spend by posting our picks for the best albums of 2007, tailored to your LoveStage—from singles-to-the-dance-floor anthems to couples-in-the-bedroom ballads.

Charming Art Brut front man Eddie Argos is the biggest romantic in punk rock, and he’s particularly skilled at capturing the excitement of new relationships on It’s a Bit Complicated. In speak-sung lyrics tossed haphazardly over chugging riffs, he’s passionate and hilarious (“People in love lie around and get fat/I didn’t want us to end up like that”).

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Surely, someone has gifted you an iTunes or Amazon gift card over the holiday season. This week, we’re helping you spend, spend, spend by posting our picks for the best albums of 2007, tailored to your LoveStage—from singles-to-the-dance-floor anthems to couples-in-the-bedroom ballads.

Black Eyed Pea Will.i.am’s solo album, Songs About Girls, about losing love (and the hunt to find it again) is the perfect soundtrack for life on the prowl. With slick soulful hooks, electro grooves, and rump shakers, Will covers the single life from reconciliation (“One More Chance”) to giving props to good genes (“I Got It From My … Read More