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	5,676	231,939	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,842	196,262	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,141	214,730	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,629	208,456	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,173	178,784	Lost In The Dream (164th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,221	220,010	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,044	200,680	A Moon Shaped Pool (77th)by Radiohead
2017	7,245	173,069	Damn. (245th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,300	149,132	Twin Fantasy (2018) (284th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,778	131,054	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (217th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	68,049	1,904,116

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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991.

Stranger To Stranger

Paul Simon

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

94 charts

Rank Score:

254

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991

Overall Rank:

5,316

Average Rating:

72 (109 votes)

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992.

Delta Machine

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

83 charts

Rank Score:

254

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993.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

253

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994.

Who Is William Onyeabor?
Compilation

William Onyeabor

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

253

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995.

Trick

Alex G

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

23 charts

Rank Score:

253

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996.

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Deerhunter

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

119 charts

Rank Score:

252

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996

Overall Rank:

5,342

Average Rating:

72 (209 votes)

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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:

251

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997

Overall Rank:

5,361

Average Rating:

77 (55 votes)

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998.

Genesis Revisited II

Steve Hackett

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

19 charts

Rank Score:

251

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999.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Beastie Boys

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

251

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1000.

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

45 charts

Rank Score:

250

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,371

Average Rating:

71 (73 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	121	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	99	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	89	9%
2019	77	8%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Death Grips	6	1%
Drake	6	1%
Beach House	5	0%
Julia Holter	5	0%
The Weeknd	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	552	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	20	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

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

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

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