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	5,613	233,516	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,817	197,510	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,061	215,918	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,575	209,388	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,118	179,553	Lost In The Dream (165th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,150	221,438	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,000	201,514	A Moon Shaped Pool (76th)by Radiohead
2017	7,203	173,821	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,244	149,608	Twin Fantasy (2018) (281st)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,702	130,570	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (222nd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	67,483	1,912,836

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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Imperial

Denzel Curry

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

77 charts

Rank Score:

253

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991

Overall Rank:

5,298

Average Rating:

77 (115 votes)

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992.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

252

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993.

Slide

George Clanton

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

40 charts

Rank Score:

252

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Rank in 2010s:

993

Overall Rank:

5,310

Average Rating:

77 (50 votes)

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994.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Beastie Boys

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

252

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995.

Goon

Tobias Jesso Jr.

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

94 charts

Rank Score:

251

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996.

Home Again

Michael Kiwanuka

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

73 charts

Rank Score:

251

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997.

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Deerhunter

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

119 charts

Rank Score:

251

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997

Overall Rank:

5,335

Average Rating:

72 (210 votes)

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998.

Safe Mode: On

Carry On The Grudge

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

251

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999.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

251

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1000.

Odd Soul

Mutemath

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

35 charts

Rank Score:

251

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	94	9%
2011	122	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	112	11%
2014	100	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	89	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	74	7%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	556	55%
	223	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	19	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	992	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	998	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	997	99%
Yes	6	1%

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