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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Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

256

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992.

XXIVK Magic

Bruno Mars

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

255

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992

Overall Rank:

5,231

Average Rating:

69 (114 votes)

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993.

Government Plates

Death Grips

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

73 charts

Rank Score:

255

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994.

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Going To Hell

The Pretty Reckless

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

255

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994

Overall Rank:

5,244

Average Rating:

66 (45 votes)

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995.

Those Who Throw Objects At The Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them

Bruno Pernadas

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995

Overall Rank:

5,245

Average Rating:

78 (42 votes)

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996.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997.

Algiers

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

254

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998.

Skelethon

Aesop Rock

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

55 charts

Rank Score:

254

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999.

Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!

Milo

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

254

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Purple

Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

254

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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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