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	5,623	232,623	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,826	197,120	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,079	215,249	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,580	208,763	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,137	179,376	Lost In The Dream (164th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,165	220,781	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,010	201,134	A Moon Shaped Pool (76th)by Radiohead
2017	7,213	173,540	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,263	149,709	Twin Fantasy (2018) (282nd)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,714	130,297	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (222nd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	67,610	1,908,592

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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Genesis Revisited II

Steve Hackett

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

19 charts

Rank Score:

252

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992.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

252

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993.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Beastie Boys

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

251

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994.

Slide

George Clanton

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

40 charts

Rank Score:

251

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994

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5,336

Average Rating:

77 (50 votes)

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995.

Home Again

Michael Kiwanuka

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

74 charts

Rank Score:

251

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996.

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Deerhunter

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

119 charts

Rank Score:

251

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996

Overall Rank:

5,341

Average Rating:

72 (210 votes)

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997.

Safe Mode: On

Carry On The Grudge

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

251

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998.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

251

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999.

Odd Soul

Mutemath

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

35 charts

Rank Score:

250

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1000.

Get Disowned

Hop Along

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

28 charts

Rank Score:

250

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	94	9%
2011	122	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	100	10%
2015	105	11%
2016	88	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	1%
Beach House	5	1%
Brockhampton	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	553	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	19	2%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	989	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	995	100%
Yes	5	1%

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

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