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	5,537	236,468	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,715	198,853	Helplessness Blues (169th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,995	219,782	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,509	212,182	Modern Vampires Of The City (121st)by Vampire Weekend
2014	7,012	180,736	Lost In The Dream (160th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,070	224,378	To Pimp A Butterfly (18th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,928	203,400	A Moon Shaped Pool (75th)by Radiohead
2017	7,132	173,793	Damn. (246th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,172	149,946	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (274th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,614	129,791	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (234th)by Lana Del Rey
Total	66,684	1,929,327

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:

1,074 charts

Rank Score:

11,487

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127

Average Rating:

82 (1,313 votes)

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Teen Dream

Beach House

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

969 charts

Rank Score:

11,013

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

963 charts

Rank Score:

10,489

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Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

890 charts

Rank Score:

9,854

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

915 charts

Rank Score:

9,772

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

895 charts

Rank Score:

9,317

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Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

918 charts

Rank Score:

9,142

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Overall Rank:

172

Average Rating:

80 (1,332 votes)

Comments:

104

18.

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

819 charts

Rank Score:

8,833

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Overall Rank:

183

Average Rating:

77 (1,515 votes)

Comments:

155

19.

Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

869 charts

Rank Score:

8,384

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Overall Rank:

193

Average Rating:

80 (1,417 votes)

Comments:

111

20.

Bloom

Beach House

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

802 charts

Rank Score:

8,259

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197

Average Rating:

82 (1,145 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	95	10%
2011	124	12%
2012	108	11%
2013	114	11%
2014	98	10%
2015	104	10%
2016	88	9%
2017	109	11%
2018	90	9%
2019	72	7%

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Death Grips	7	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Beach House	5	0%
Taylor Swift	5	0%
Brockhampton	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	553	55%
	227	23%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	19	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	991	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	997	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	996	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. The Needle Drop's Top Albums Of The 2010s by The Needle Drop (2019)
3. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s by Pitchfork (2019)
4. The A.V. Club's 50 best albums of the 2010s by The A.V. Club (2019)
5. BrooklynVegan's Top Albums of 2010s by BrooklynVegan (2020)
6. Gorilla vs. Bear Albums of the 2010s by Gorilla vs. Bear (2019)
7. All The Best Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked by Uproxx (2019)
8. Top 100 Albums of the Decade by Crack Magazine (2019)
9. Top 50 Albums of the 2010s by The Wild Honey Pie (2019)
10. NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s by New Music Express (2019)
11. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s by Rolling Stone (2019)
12. The 50 best albums of the decade – 2010 to 2019 by Independent (2019)
13. The 50 Best Albums of the Decade by Deep Cuts (2019)
14. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s by Stereogum (2019)
15. The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s by Spin (2020)
16. Tiny Mix Tapes 2010s: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade by Tiny Mix Tapes (2019)
17. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s by Consequence of Sound (2019)
18. Die 100 besten Alben der 10er Jahre by Musikexpress.de (2020)
19. Die besten Platten 2010-2019 by Spex (2019)
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