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 55,000 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	5,924	231,893	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	6,134	196,819	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,405	214,626	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,760	208,037	Modern Vampires Of The City (123rd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,204	178,050	Lost In The Dream (165th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,269	218,352	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,112	199,854	A Moon Shaped Pool (79th)by Radiohead
2017	7,292	172,823	Damn. (237th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,379	148,950	Twin Fantasy (2018) (287th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,832	131,133	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (213th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	69,311	1,900,538

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

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Goon

Tobias Jesso Jr.

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

96 charts

Rank Score:

255

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992.

Stranger To Stranger

Paul Simon

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

94 charts

Rank Score:

254

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992

Overall Rank:

5,320

Average Rating:

72 (109 votes)

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993.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

74 charts

Rank Score:

254

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994.

Delta Machine

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

85 charts

Rank Score:

254

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995.

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Alice In Chains

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

46 charts

Rank Score:

254

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996.

A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Dream Theater

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

59 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997.

Simple Math

Manchester Orchestra

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

253

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998.

The Bearer Of Bad News

Andy Shauf

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

18 charts

Rank Score:

253

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999.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

84 charts

Rank Score:

252

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999

Overall Rank:

5,350

Average Rating:

75 (158 votes)

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1000.

Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird

The Tallest Man On Earth

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

42 charts

Rank Score:

252

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,358

Average Rating:

77 (55 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	97	10%
2011	121	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	114	11%
2014	100	10%
2015	107	11%
2016	87	9%
2017	108	11%
2018	89	9%
2019	75	8%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Drake	6	1%
Death Grips	6	1%
Kanye West	5	0%
Car Seat Headrest	5	0%
Beach House	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	556	55%
	224	22%
	70	7%
	33	3%
	26	3%
	20	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	10	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	1,000	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	998	99%
Yes	7	1%

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