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 49,000 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	4,926	252,262	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,131	208,864	Helplessness Blues (164th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,394	231,993	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	5,945	219,979	Modern Vampires Of The City (124th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,369	183,953	Lost In The Dream (160th)by The War On Drugs
2015	6,324	230,461	To Pimp A Butterfly (20th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,281	206,273	A Moon Shaped Pool (78th)by Radiohead
2017	6,396	172,058	Damn. (267th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	6,358	149,363	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (288th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	6,814	123,534	Igor (277th)by Tyler, The Creator
Total	59,938	1,978,739

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 Vampire Weekend.

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,633 charts

Rank Score:

28,986

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Average Rating:

85 (2,253 votes)

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271

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,765 charts

Rank Score:

24,687

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11.

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,034 charts

Rank Score:

12,324

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Overall Rank:

129

Average Rating:

82 (1,291 votes)

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12.

Teen Dream

Beach House

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

933 charts

Rank Score:

11,701

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19.

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

820 charts

Rank Score:

8,998

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Overall Rank:

194

Average Rating:

82 (1,099 votes)

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28.

Plastic Beach

Gorillaz

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

676 charts

Rank Score:

7,392

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Overall Rank:

247

Average Rating:

79 (1,193 votes)

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30.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

689 charts

Rank Score:

7,013

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266

Average Rating:

82 (886 votes)

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42.

The Age Of Adz

Sufjan Stevens

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

545 charts

Rank Score:

5,767

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327

Average Rating:

80 (802 votes)

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Brothers

The Black Keys

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

688 charts

Rank Score:

5,554

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Overall Rank:

340

Average Rating:

79 (1,202 votes)

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Innerspeaker

Tame Impala

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

640 charts

Rank Score:

5,240

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360

Average Rating:

81 (1,022 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	93	9%
2011	126	13%
2012	109	11%
2013	111	11%
2014	101	10%
2015	110	11%
2016	84	8%
2017	106	11%
2018	90	9%
2019	70	7%

Artist	Albums	%

Death Grips	9	1%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
The Weeknd	6	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Kendrick Lamar	5	1%
Taylor Swift	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	561	56%
	220	22%
	69	7%
	33	3%
	30	3%
	16	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	996	100%
Yes	4	0%

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