Year-end "best-of lists" are usually subjective, and with that I give you "Sounds Like Nashville's" 20 Best Country Albums of 2017. I like their choices, except I don't agree with counting Chris Stapleton's two albums as one.
Here's the Top 10:
1. "Slowheart", Kip Moore
2. "From A Room: Volume 1", and "From A Room: Volume 2", Chris Stapleton
3. "What Makes You Country", Luke Bryan
4. "Heart Break", Lady Antebellum
5. "The Breaker", Little Big Town
6. "Brett Eldredge", Brett Eldredge
7. "Legacy", The Cadillac Three
8. "On the Rocks", Midland
9. "Life Changes", Thomas Rhett
10. "Unapologetically", Kelsea Ballerini