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	5,473	238,977	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,659	200,287	Helplessness Blues (168th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,943	221,127	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,440	213,211	Modern Vampires Of The City (121st)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,968	181,601	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,019	224,614	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,848	203,982	A Moon Shaped Pool (74th)by Radiohead
2017	7,081	173,175	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,134	150,274	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (275th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,544	129,573	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (233rd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	66,109	1,936,822

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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Strange Trails

Lord Huron

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

26 charts

Rank Score:

256

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992.

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Carry On The Grudge

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

256

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992

Overall Rank:

5,244

Average Rating:

76 (32 votes)

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993.

Spirit

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

83 charts

Rank Score:

256

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994.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995.

Young The Giant

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

36 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995

Overall Rank:

5,264

Average Rating:

72 (72 votes)

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996.

Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!

Milo

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

255

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997.

Jónsi

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

88 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997

Overall Rank:

5,274

Average Rating:

71 (157 votes)

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998.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

254

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999.

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Purple

Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

254

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Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

253

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	96	10%
2011	123	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	113	11%
2014	98	10%
2015	107	11%
2016	87	9%
2017	107	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	72	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Death Grips	7	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Drake	6	1%
Beach House	5	1%
Brockhampton	5	1%
Julia Holter	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	554	55%
	226	23%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	10	1%

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

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

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