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	5,585	236,147	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,728	198,741	Helplessness Blues (170th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,018	218,973	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,532	211,538	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,048	180,579	Lost In The Dream (162nd)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,100	223,606	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,961	203,157	A Moon Shaped Pool (75th)by Radiohead
2017	7,156	173,997	Damn. (245th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,196	149,734	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (276th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,631	130,123	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (225th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	66,955	1,926,595

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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The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,815 charts

Rank Score:

21,262

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Average Rating:

84 (2,691 votes)

Comments:

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Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

849 charts

Rank Score:

7,496

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Grimes

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

522 charts

Rank Score:

4,239

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Overall Rank:

420

Average Rating:

79 (641 votes)

Comments:

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Salad Days

Mac DeMarco

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

527 charts

Rank Score:

4,071

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Overall Rank:

440

Average Rating:

80 (800 votes)

Comments:

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Destroyer

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

464 charts

Rank Score:

3,751

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Overall Rank:

477

Average Rating:

79 (579 votes)

Comments:

68.

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Carly Rae Jepsen

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

343 charts

Rank Score:

3,668

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Overall Rank:

487

Average Rating:

77 (407 votes)

Comments:

81.

Visions

Grimes

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

478 charts

Rank Score:

3,036

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Overall Rank:

577

Average Rating:

77 (713 votes)

Comments:

88.

Mac DeMarco

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

314 charts

Rank Score:

2,864

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Overall Rank:

620

Average Rating:

80 (508 votes)

Comments:

101.

Alvvays

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

296 charts

Rank Score:

2,681

Rank in 2014:

Rank in 2010s:

101

Overall Rank:

666

Average Rating:

79 (361 votes)

Comments:

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Alvvays

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

300 charts

Rank Score:

2,365

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Rank in 2010s:

114

Overall Rank:

765

Average Rating:

80 (359 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	124	12%
2012	106	11%
2013	114	11%
2014	104	10%
2015	104	10%
2016	89	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	90	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%
Brockhampton	5	0%
Julia Holter	5	0%
The Weeknd	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	552	55%
	231	23%
	70	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	19	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	12	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	1,000	99%
Yes	7	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	1,001	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. Top 100 Albums of the Decade by Crack Magazine (2019)
3. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
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