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	5,664	232,071	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,839	196,300	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,141	214,827	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,626	208,595	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,172	178,895	Lost In The Dream (164th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,216	220,090	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,044	200,701	A Moon Shaped Pool (76th)by Radiohead
2017	7,243	173,136	Damn. (246th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,298	149,138	Twin Fantasy (2018) (285th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,774	130,741	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (220th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	68,017	1,904,494

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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Delta Machine

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

83 charts

Rank Score:

254

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992.

Who Is William Onyeabor?
Compilation

William Onyeabor

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

253

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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.

Trick

Alex G

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

23 charts

Rank Score:

253

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995.

Psychodrama

Dave

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

83 charts

Rank Score:

252

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995

Overall Rank:

5,339

Average Rating:

75 (88 votes)

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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:

5,340

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:

5,356

Average Rating:

77 (55 votes)

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998.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Beastie Boys

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

251

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999.

Cleopatra

The Lumineers

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

45 charts

Rank Score:

251

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999

Overall Rank:

5,364

Average Rating:

71 (73 votes)

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1000.

Merrie Land

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

250

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,366

Average Rating:

76 (53 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	121	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	99	10%
2015	115	12%
2016	88	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	90	9%
2019	76	8%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Death Grips	6	1%
Drake	6	1%
Brockhampton	5	0%
Taylor Swift	5	0%
Kendrick Lamar	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	552	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	28	3%
	20	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	998	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	1,004	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	1,003	99%
Yes	6	1%

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Recognised Decade Charts (2020s)
1. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Staff Picks by Billboard (2019)
2. The Needle Drop's Top Albums Of The 2010s by The Needle Drop (2019)
3. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s by Pitchfork (2019)
4. The A.V. Club's 50 best albums of the 2010s by The A.V. Club (2019)
5. BrooklynVegan's Top Albums of 2010s by BrooklynVegan (2020)
6. All The Best Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked by Uproxx (2019)
7. Gorilla vs. Bear Albums of the 2010s by Gorilla vs. Bear (2019)
8. Top 100 Albums of the Decade by Crack Magazine (2019)
9. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
10. Top 50 Albums of the 2010s by The Wild Honey Pie (2019)
11. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s by Rolling Stone (2019)
12. The 50 best albums of the decade – 2010 to 2019 by Independent (2019)
13. The 50 Best Albums of the Decade by Deep Cuts (2019)
14. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s by Stereogum (2019)
15. The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s by Spin (2020)
16. Tiny Mix Tapes 2010s: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade by Tiny Mix Tapes (2019)
17. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s by Consequence of Sound (2019)
18. Die 100 besten Alben der 10er Jahre by Musikexpress.de (2020)
19. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s by Paste (2019)
20. Die besten Platten 2010-2019 by Spex (2019)