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 54,000 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	5,600	234,113	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,785	198,229	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,053	217,192	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,546	210,062	Modern Vampires Of The City (124th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,087	179,869	Lost In The Dream (163rd)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,121	222,471	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,985	202,487	A Moon Shaped Pool (77th)by Radiohead
2017	7,175	174,014	Damn. (249th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,218	149,762	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (285th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,656	130,547	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (222nd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	67,226	1,918,747

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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Carry On The Grudge

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

32 charts

Rank Score:

253

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991

Overall Rank:

5,304

Average Rating:

75 (33 votes)

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992.

Get Disowned

Hop Along

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

28 charts

Rank Score:

253

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993.

Cornell 5/8/77
Live

Grateful Dead

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

25 charts

Rank Score:

253

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994.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Beastie Boys

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

253

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995.

Audio, Video, Disco

Justice (FR)

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

252

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996.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

252

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997.

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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997

Overall Rank:

5,319

Average Rating:

78 (54 votes)

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Goodness

The Hotelier

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

252

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998

Overall Rank:

5,322

Average Rating:

74 (75 votes)

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999.

Goon

Tobias Jesso Jr.

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

93 charts

Rank Score:

251

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1000.

Magma

Gojira

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

251

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,336

Average Rating:

78 (85 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	122	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	98	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	89	9%
2017	110	11%
2018	90	9%
2019	73	7%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	551	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	20	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	989	99%
Yes	11	1%

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

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

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