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	5,442	239,973	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,624	201,072	Helplessness Blues (166th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,919	221,548	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,407	213,043	Modern Vampires Of The City (120th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,925	182,161	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	6,976	225,148	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,807	203,980	A Moon Shaped Pool (74th)by Radiohead
2017	7,007	173,635	Damn. (249th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,094	150,379	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (277th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,498	129,187	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (236th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	65,699	1,940,126

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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991.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

256

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991

Overall Rank:

5,218

Average Rating:

75 (157 votes)

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992.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

256

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993.

XXIVK Magic

Bruno Mars

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

255

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Rank in 2010s:

993

Overall Rank:

5,231

Average Rating:

69 (114 votes)

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994.

Those Who Throw Objects At The Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them

Bruno Pernadas

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

255

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Rank in 2010s:

994

Overall Rank:

5,241

Average Rating:

78 (42 votes)

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995.

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Going To Hell

The Pretty Reckless

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995

Overall Rank:

5,243

Average Rating:

66 (45 votes)

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996.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997.

Skelethon

Aesop Rock

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

55 charts

Rank Score:

254

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998.

Algiers

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

254

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999.

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

Milo

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

254

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1000.

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Purple

Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

254

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	123	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	113	11%
2014	99	10%
2015	107	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	105	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	72	7%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	557	56%
	224	22%
	70	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	17	2%
	9	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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