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	5,628	232,524	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,827	196,942	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,084	215,373	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,595	208,675	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,142	179,197	Lost In The Dream (164th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,169	220,588	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,014	201,087	A Moon Shaped Pool (76th)by Radiohead
2017	7,221	173,465	Damn. (247th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,266	149,735	Twin Fantasy (2018) (282nd)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,716	130,378	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (220th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	67,662	1,907,962

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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Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

252

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992.

Genesis Revisited II

Steve Hackett

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

19 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.

Home Again

Michael Kiwanuka

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

74 charts

Rank Score:

251

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995.

Slide

George Clanton

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

40 charts

Rank Score:

251

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995

Overall Rank:

5,347

Average Rating:

77 (50 votes)

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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:

5,350

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:

250

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999.

Odd Soul

Mutemath

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

35 charts

Rank Score:

250

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1000.

FFS

FFS

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

73 charts

Rank Score:

250

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	94	9%
2011	122	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	100	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	74	7%

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%
Julia Holter	5	1%
The Weeknd	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	552	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	28	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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