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 55,000 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	5,676	231,887	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,848	196,135	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,149	214,647	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (36th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,631	208,475	Modern Vampires Of The City (122nd)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,181	178,703	Lost In The Dream (164th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,226	219,878	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	7,051	200,585	A Moon Shaped Pool (77th)by Radiohead
2017	7,255	173,052	Damn. (245th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,304	149,112	Twin Fantasy (2018) (284th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,785	131,025	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (217th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	68,106	1,903,499

The best artists of the 2010s were Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Tame Impala, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Frank Ocean, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Radiohead and Nick Cave.

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Modern Vampires Of The City

Vampire Weekend

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

1,032 charts

Rank Score:

11,412

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

122

Average Rating:

82 (1,370 votes)

Comments:

134

18.

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

827 charts

Rank Score:

8,472

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

185

Average Rating:

77 (1,526 votes)

Comments:

156

20.

Yeezus

Kanye West

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

739 charts

Rank Score:

8,051

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

199

Average Rating:

78 (1,421 votes)

Comments:

156

21.

Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

877 charts

Rank Score:

8,020

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Queens Of The Stone Age

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

754 charts

Rank Score:

7,595

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

214

Average Rating:

83 (1,152 votes)

Comments:

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Reflektor

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

857 charts

Rank Score:

7,289

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37.

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

645 charts

Rank Score:

5,946

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

291

Average Rating:

79 (940 votes)

Comments:

69.

Sunbather

Deafheaven

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

399 charts

Rank Score:

3,602

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

495

Average Rating:

79 (570 votes)

Comments:

80.

MBV

My Bloody Valentine

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

460 charts

Rank Score:

3,079

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

572

Average Rating:

78 (745 votes)

Comments:

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Push The Sky Away

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

392 charts

Rank Score:

2,774

Rank in 2013:

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Overall Rank:

633

Average Rating:

78 (464 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	121	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	99	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	89	9%
2019	76	8%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	552	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	20	2%
	10	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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