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 53,000 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	5,440	240,139	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,623	201,097	Helplessness Blues (166th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,914	221,612	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,401	213,273	Modern Vampires Of The City (120th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,895	182,051	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	6,974	225,292	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,804	204,128	A Moon Shaped Pool (74th)by Radiohead
2017	7,002	173,615	Damn. (249th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,091	150,459	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (277th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,494	129,230	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (236th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	65,638	1,940,896

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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High Violet

The National

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,069 charts

Rank Score:

11,610

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128

Average Rating:

82 (1,308 votes)

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Teen Dream

Beach House

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

967 charts

Rank Score:

11,279

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

953 charts

Rank Score:

10,572

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Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

883 charts

Rank Score:

10,048

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

909 charts

Rank Score:

9,931

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

890 charts

Rank Score:

9,473

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

918 charts

Rank Score:

9,273

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Overall Rank:

172

Average Rating:

80 (1,328 votes)

Comments:

104

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Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

812 charts

Rank Score:

8,885

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Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

846 charts

Rank Score:

8,414

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194

Average Rating:

82 (1,120 votes)

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Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

860 charts

Rank Score:

8,393

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195

Average Rating:

80 (1,410 votes)

Comments:

110

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	123	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	113	11%
2014	99	10%
2015	107	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	105	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	72	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Death Grips	7	1%
The Weeknd	6	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Taylor Swift	5	1%
Kendrick Lamar	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	557	56%
	224	22%
	70	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	17	2%
	9	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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Recognised Decade Charts (2020s)
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8. The A.V. Club's 50 best albums of the 2010s by The A.V. Club (2019)
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10. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
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