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	5,462	239,574	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,639	200,660	Helplessness Blues (167th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,931	221,502	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,429	213,354	Modern Vampires Of The City (121st)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,952	181,753	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,001	224,939	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,829	203,839	A Moon Shaped Pool (72nd)by Radiohead
2017	7,059	173,566	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,125	150,363	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (276th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,533	129,504	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (233rd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	65,960	1,939,055

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

Milo

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

255

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992.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

255

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993.

Who Is William Onyeabor?
Compilation

William Onyeabor

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

255

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994.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995.

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Purple

Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

255

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996.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

254

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996

Overall Rank:

5,266

Average Rating:

75 (157 votes)

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997.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

254

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998.

Those Who Throw Objects At The Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them

Bruno Pernadas

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

254

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998

Overall Rank:

5,276

Average Rating:

78 (42 votes)

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999.

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Going To Hell

The Pretty Reckless

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

254

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999

Overall Rank:

5,280

Average Rating:

66 (45 votes)

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1000.

Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

16 charts

Rank Score:

254

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,281

Average Rating:

71 (22 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	96	10%
2011	123	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	114	11%
2014	99	10%
2015	105	11%
2016	88	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%
The Weeknd	5	0%
Julia Holter	5	0%
Beach House	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	555	55%
	224	22%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	996	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	6	1%

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