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 53,000 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	5,464	239,421	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,646	200,533	Helplessness Blues (167th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,935	221,648	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,431	213,424	Modern Vampires Of The City (121st)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,956	181,700	Lost In The Dream (160th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,013	225,000	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,833	203,871	A Moon Shaped Pool (72nd)by Radiohead
2017	7,068	173,479	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,127	150,217	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (276th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,538	129,684	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (233rd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	66,011	1,938,977

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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High Violet

The National

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,071 charts

Rank Score:

11,572

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130

Average Rating:

82 (1,312 votes)

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Teen Dream

Beach House

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

972 charts

Rank Score:

11,189

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

957 charts

Rank Score:

10,567

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Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

887 charts

Rank Score:

10,094

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

914 charts

Rank Score:

9,892

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

893 charts

Rank Score:

9,438

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

921 charts

Rank Score:

9,275

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Overall Rank:

172

Average Rating:

80 (1,330 votes)

Comments:

104

18.

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

816 charts

Rank Score:

8,905

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Overall Rank:

181

Average Rating:

77 (1,510 votes)

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155

19.

Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

863 charts

Rank Score:

8,445

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Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

851 charts

Rank Score:

8,444

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196

Average Rating:

82 (1,122 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	96	10%
2011	123	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	114	11%
2014	98	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	106	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	73	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Death Grips	7	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Beach House	5	0%
Taylor Swift	5	0%
The Weeknd	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	555	55%
	225	22%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	996	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	995	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. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s by Rolling Stone (2019)
3. The A.V. Club's 50 best albums of the 2010s by The A.V. Club (2019)
4. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s by Pitchfork (2019)
5. Gorilla vs. Bear Albums of the 2010s by Gorilla vs. Bear (2019)
6. Top 100 Albums of the Decade by Crack Magazine (2019)
7. Top 50 Albums of the 2010s by The Wild Honey Pie (2019)
8. All The Best Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked by Uproxx (2019)
9. The 50 best albums of the decade – 2010 to 2019 by Independent (2019)
10. The Needle Drop's Top Albums Of The 2010s by The Needle Drop (2019)
11. BrooklynVegan's Top Albums of 2010s by BrooklynVegan (2020)
12. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
13. The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s by Spin (2020)
14. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s by Stereogum (2019)
15. The 50 Best Albums of the Decade by Deep Cuts (2019)
16. Tiny Mix Tapes 2010s: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade by Tiny Mix Tapes (2019)
17. Die 100 besten Alben der 10er Jahre by Musikexpress.de (2020)
18. Die besten Platten 2010-2019 by Spex (2019)
19. BEST OF 2011 - 2020: Die besten Alben des Jahrzehnts by laut (2020)
20. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s by Consequence of Sound (2019)