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	5,912	232,957	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	6,070	196,844	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,176	213,997	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,648	207,828	Modern Vampires Of The City (123rd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,189	178,459	Lost In The Dream (164th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,253	219,462	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,082	200,297	A Moon Shaped Pool (78th)by Radiohead
2017	7,273	173,164	Damn. (238th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,333	149,093	Twin Fantasy (2018) (285th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,821	131,004	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (215th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	68,757	1,903,104

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.

Morning/Evening

Four Tet

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

35 charts

Rank Score:

254

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992.

Delta Machine

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

84 charts

Rank Score:

254

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993.

Stranger To Stranger

Paul Simon

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

94 charts

Rank Score:

254

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993

Overall Rank:

5,321

Average Rating:

72 (109 votes)

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994.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

84 charts

Rank Score:

254

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994

Overall Rank:

5,335

Average Rating:

75 (158 votes)

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995.

Ever After

Marianas Trench

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

11 charts

Rank Score:

253

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996.

Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird

The Tallest Man On Earth

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

42 charts

Rank Score:

253

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996

Overall Rank:

5,344

Average Rating:

77 (55 votes)

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997.

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Deerhunter

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

119 charts

Rank Score:

252

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997

Overall Rank:

5,352

Average Rating:

72 (209 votes)

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998.

Cornell 5/8/77
Live

Grateful Dead

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

24 charts

Rank Score:

252

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999.

Audio, Video, Disco

Justice (FR)

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

252

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1000.

Black Noise

Pantha Du Prince

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

84 charts

Rank Score:

251

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,366

Average Rating:

72 (75 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	96	10%
2011	121	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	109	11%
2014	100	10%
2015	107	11%
2016	87	9%
2017	109	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%
Beach House	5	1%
The Weeknd	5	1%
Taylor Swift	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	551	55%
	222	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	20	2%
	11	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	10	1%

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

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

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