The 15 Most Agonizing Waits Between Albums

Country-pop icon Shania Twain returns Friday with NOW, her first album in 15 years. Last week, Fergie ended an 11-year solo absence of her own when she released her second LP, Double Dutchess. Hiatuses like these put "long" gaps like the one Frank Ocean ended with 2016's Blonde in perspective. Read on for more of the most agonizing waits between albums.

Released 15 years after 2002's Up!

Released 16 years after 1999's 2001

Released 14 years after 2000's Voodoo

Released 22 years after 1991's Loveless

Released 18 years after 1998's The Love Movement

Released 15 years after 1993's "The Spaghetti Incident?"

Released 20 years after 1980's Gaucho

Released 16 years after 2000's Since I Left You

Released 13 years after 2001's Drukqs

Released 10 years after 2005's The Woods

Released 12 years after 2004's The Grind Date

Released 11 years after 2006's The Dutchess

Released 18 years after 1995's Forbidden

Released 11 years after 2005's A Bigger Bang

Released 10 years after 2003's Reality