Best Albums of the 2010s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 2010s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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2010s decade summary

Year	Albums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts.	Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year)	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
2010	5,468	239,017	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,652	200,365	Helplessness Blues (168th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,939	221,297	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (34th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,438	213,134	Modern Vampires Of The City (121st)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,956	181,544	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,017	224,694	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,845	203,927	A Moon Shaped Pool (73rd)by Radiohead
2017	7,076	173,213	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,134	150,200	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (275th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,540	129,657	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (233rd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	66,065	1,937,048

The best artists of the 2010s were Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Tame Impala, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Frank Ocean, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, The National and Nick Cave.

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Spirit

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

82 charts

Rank Score:

256

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992.

Young The Giant

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

36 charts

Rank Score:

255

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992

Overall Rank:

5,256

Average Rating:

72 (72 votes)

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993.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

255

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994.

Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!

Milo

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995.

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Carry On The Grudge

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995

Overall Rank:

5,264

Average Rating:

76 (32 votes)

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996.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997.

Who Is William Onyeabor?
Compilation

William Onyeabor

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

254

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998.

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Purple

Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

254

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999.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

254

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1000.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

253

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,283

Average Rating:

75 (157 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	96	10%
2011	123	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	115	12%
2014	98	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	92	9%
2017	107	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	72	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Death Grips	7	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Brockhampton	5	0%
Kendrick Lamar	5	0%
Kanye West	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	557	55%
	227	23%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	1,001	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	1,000	99%
Yes	6	1%

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