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	5,463	239,635	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)by Kanye West
2011	5,646	200,691	Helplessness Blues (167th)by Fleet Foxes
2012	5,933	221,666	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (35th)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	6,430	213,512	Modern Vampires Of The City (121st)by Vampire Weekend
2014	6,955	181,779	Lost In The Dream (160th)by The War On Drugs
2015	7,011	224,994	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	6,831	203,852	A Moon Shaped Pool (70th)by Radiohead
2017	7,061	173,558	Damn. (248th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	7,127	150,270	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (276th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	7,535	129,631	Norman Fucking Rockwell! (233rd)by Lana Del Rey
Total	65,992	1,939,587

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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Spirit

Depeche Mode

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

82 charts

Rank Score:

256

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992.

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

Milo

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

255

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993.

Life Is People

Bill Fay

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

64 charts

Rank Score:

255

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994.

Who Is William Onyeabor?
Compilation

William Onyeabor

Year of Release:

2013

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

255

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995.

Kintsugi

Death Cab For Cutie

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

255

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996.

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Purple

Baroness

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

57 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997.

Sea Of Cowards

The Dead Weather

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

254

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997

Overall Rank:

5,273

Average Rating:

75 (157 votes)

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998.

Party

Aldous Harding

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

254

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999.

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:

254

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999

Overall Rank:

5,282

Average Rating:

78 (42 votes)

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Going To Hell

The Pretty Reckless

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

253

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1,000

Overall Rank:

5,287

Average Rating:

66 (45 votes)

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	97	10%
2011	124	12%
2012	107	11%
2013	114	11%
2014	100	10%
2015	106	11%
2016	88	9%
2017	107	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	73	7%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	554	55%
	226	22%
	69	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	9	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	996	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	1,002	100%
Yes	5	0%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	1,001	99%
Yes	6	1%

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