2010s: The 25 Best Underrated Albums
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ForegroundNoise 
As with my other decade charts, I've decided to shake things up from the endless lists hailing To Pimp a Butterfly as the best of the decade (an opinion that, for the record, I agree with). Instead, here are my 'underrated' favourites of the 2010s, the criteria being that you'll find no releases in BEA's top 200 of the decade.
That's not to say I'm excluding artists who have entries in the top 100; all the more reason to turn listeners onto the more overlooked corners of their discographies.
I'm a little busy at the moment, but stay tuned for some brief notes on these favourites of mine.
FN xx
- Chart updated: 02/25/2025 15:45
- (Created: 04/25/2020 12:50).
- Chart size: 25 albums.
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2010s: The 25 Best Underrated Albums composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2 | 8% | |
| 2011 | 3 | 12% | |
| 2012 | 2 | 8% | |
| 2013 | 3 | 12% | |
| 2014 | 2 | 8% | |
| 2015 | 4 | 16% | |
| 2016 | 3 | 12% | |
| 2017 | 3 | 12% | |
| 2018 | 2 | 8% | |
| 2019 | 1 | 4% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba] + 三宅純 [Jun Miyake] + 山本達久 [Tatsuhisa Yamamoto] + 渡辺等 [Hitoshi Watanabe] | 1 | 4% | |
| Lil Ugly Mane | 1 | 4% | |
| Fire! Orchestra | 1 | 4% | |
| Lomelda | 1 | 4% | |
| Tim Hecker | 1 | 4% | |
| Arca | 1 | 4% | |
| Danny Brown | 1 | 4% | |
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2010s: The 25 Best Underrated Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 24th to 25thUnder The Skin by Mica Levi |
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