Best Albums of the 2010s

« View best albums of the 2000sView best albums of the 2020s »

Listed below are the best albums of the 2010s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 54,000 greatest album charts.

Best albums by year or decade

Decade:

Year:

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.

View chart at point in time

Share this chart

Collector's summary (top 227) (filtered)Log in or register to discover the great albums that are missing from your music collection!

This chart is currently filtered to only show albums from United Kingdom. (Remove this filter)

Sort by

A Moon Shaped Pool

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

1,355 charts

Rank Score:

16,823

Rank in 2016:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

Average Rating:

87 (2,101 votes)

Comments:

273

★ (Blackstar)

David Bowie

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

1,205 charts

Rank Score:

12,449

Rank in 2016:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

Average Rating:

Comments:

18.

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

819 charts

Rank Score:

8,547

Rank in 2013:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

Average Rating:

Comments:

28.

alt-J

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

672 charts

Rank Score:

7,203

Rank in 2012:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

236

Average Rating:

78 (989 votes)

Comments:

32.

Plastic Beach

Gorillaz

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

713 charts

Rank Score:

6,687

Rank in 2010:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

262

Average Rating:

79 (1,225 votes)

Comments:

36.

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

716 charts

Rank Score:

6,184

Rank in 2011:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

283

Average Rating:

80 (937 votes)

Comments:

44.

The King Of Limbs

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

847 charts

Rank Score:

4,956

Rank in 2011:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

Average Rating:

Comments:

67.

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

476 charts

Rank Score:

3,687

Rank in 2017:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

485

Average Rating:

80 (594 votes)

Comments:

74.

Adele

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

492 charts

Rank Score:

3,346

Rank in 2011:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

540

Average Rating:

72 (917 votes)

Comments:

76.

Joy As An Act Of Resistance.

Idles

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

421 charts

Rank Score:

3,237

Rank in 2018:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

551

Average Rating:

80 (469 votes)

Comments:

« prev
1
2
3
4
...
22
23
next »
Goto Page:

Total albums: 227. Page 1 of 23

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%
Show all

Country	Albums	%

	552	55%
	231	23%
	70	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	19	2%
	9	1%
Show all

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%

« View best albums of the 2000sView best albums of the 2020s »

If you enjoy our site, please consider supporting us by sparing a few seconds to disable your ad blocker.

A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(

We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.

Best Artists of 2009
1. Animal Collective
2. The Antlers
3. The xx
4. Grizzly Bear
5. Phoenix
6. Muse
7. Florence + The Machine
8. Arctic Monkeys
9. Dirty Projectors
10. Kid Cudi
11. Mumford & Sons
12. Fever Ray
13. Mastodon
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15. Kasabian
16. St. Vincent
17. The Flaming Lips
18. The Horrors (UK)
19. Them Crooked Vultures
20. The Decemberists