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	5,458	239,673	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,639	200,831	Helplessness Blues (167th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,929	221,651	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,425	213,488	Modern Vampires Of The City (120th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,944	181,998	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	6,998	225,162	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,828	203,993	A Moon Shaped Pool (72nd)by Radiohead
2017	7,055	173,662	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,123	150,517	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (275th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,528	129,522	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (236th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	65,927	1,940,496

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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World Eater

Blanck Mass

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

84 charts

Rank Score:

256

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992.

Spirit

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

82 charts

Rank Score:

256

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993.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

255

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994.

Who Is William Onyeabor?
Compilation

William Onyeabor

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

255

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996.

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Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

255

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997.

Out In The Storm

Waxahatchee

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

79 charts

Rank Score:

255

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998.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

254

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998

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5,265

Average Rating:

75 (157 votes)

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999.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

254

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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

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5,275

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	98	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	87	9%
2017	106	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	73	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Death Grips	7	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Taylor Swift	5	1%
The Weeknd	5	1%
Beach House	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	556	56%
	224	22%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	989	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	995	100%
Yes	5	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	994	99%
Yes	6	1%

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