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 54,000 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	5,600	234,393	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,784	198,515	Helplessness Blues (172nd)by Fleet Foxes
2012	6,052	217,595	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,544	210,427	Modern Vampires Of The City (124th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,088	180,019	Lost In The Dream (163rd)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,120	222,584	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,985	202,539	A Moon Shaped Pool (77th)by Radiohead
2017	7,175	174,060	Damn. (249th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,217	149,791	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (285th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,655	130,561	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (220th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	67,220	1,920,484

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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11.

High Violet

The National

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

1,073 charts

Rank Score:

11,217

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128

Average Rating:

82 (1,316 votes)

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Teen Dream

Beach House

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

975 charts

Rank Score:

10,767

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

966 charts

Rank Score:

10,242

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Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

893 charts

Rank Score:

9,684

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

920 charts

Rank Score:

9,611

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

898 charts

Rank Score:

9,153

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

923 charts

Rank Score:

9,063

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Overall Rank:

174

Average Rating:

80 (1,336 votes)

Comments:

104

18.

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

823 charts

Rank Score:

8,514

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Overall Rank:

187

Average Rating:

77 (1,519 votes)

Comments:

155

19.

Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

871 charts

Rank Score:

8,204

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Overall Rank:

197

Average Rating:

80 (1,418 votes)

Comments:

111

20.

Bloom

Beach House

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

808 charts

Rank Score:

8,154

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199

Average Rating:

82 (1,147 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	122	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	110	11%
2014	98	10%
2015	107	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	110	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	73	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Drake	6	1%
Death Grips	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Julia Holter	5	0%
Kendrick Lamar	5	0%
Kanye West	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	553	55%
	224	22%
	71	7%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	20	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	6	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	6	1%

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Recognised Decade Charts (2020s)
1. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Staff Picks by Billboard (2019)
2. BrooklynVegan's Top Albums of 2010s by BrooklynVegan (2020)
3. The A.V. Club's 50 best albums of the 2010s by The A.V. Club (2019)
4. Gorilla vs. Bear Albums of the 2010s by Gorilla vs. Bear (2019)
5. All The Best Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked by Uproxx (2019)
6. Top 100 Albums of the Decade by Crack Magazine (2019)
7. Top 50 Albums of the 2010s by The Wild Honey Pie (2019)
8. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
9. The 50 best albums of the decade – 2010 to 2019 by Independent (2019)
10. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s by Rolling Stone (2019)
11. The Needle Drop's Top Albums Of The 2010s by The Needle Drop (2019)
12. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s by Pitchfork (2019)
13. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s by Stereogum (2019)
14. The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s by Spin (2020)
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