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	5,451	239,858	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,629	201,062	Helplessness Blues (166th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,921	221,506	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,410	212,746	Modern Vampires Of The City (120th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,930	181,774	Lost In The Dream (159th)by The War On Drugs
2015	6,982	225,117	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,812	203,859	A Moon Shaped Pool (72nd)by Radiohead
2017	7,022	173,820	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,103	150,282	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (277th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,505	129,332	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (236th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	65,765	1,939,357

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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749.

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Explosions In The Sky

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

74 charts

Rank Score:

342

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756.

Parallax

Atlas Sound

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

96 charts

Rank Score:

338

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757.

Joyce Manor

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

42 charts

Rank Score:

338

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761.

Submarine

Alex Turner

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

337

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770.

Belong

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

83 charts

Rank Score:

334

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803.

C'mon

Low

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

318

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846.

New Brigade

Iceage

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

81 charts

Rank Score:

303

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850.

We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

John Maus

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

69 charts

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303

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856.

Blood Pressures

The Kills

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

298

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865.

White Denim

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

50 charts

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294

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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	106	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	105	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	73	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%
Beach House	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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