Best Albums of the 2010s : Best Ever Albums

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 40,000 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	4,325	275,004	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (34th)by Kanye West
2011	4,445	224,076	Bon Iver (160th)by Bon Iver
2012	4,737	248,470	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (42nd)by Kendrick Lamar
2013	5,328	229,973	Modern Vampires Of The City (117th)by Vampire Weekend
2014	5,613	181,538	Lost In The Dream (173rd)by The War On Drugs
2015	5,499	219,491	To Pimp A Butterfly (26th)by Kendrick Lamar
2016	5,304	183,704	A Moon Shaped Pool (82nd)by Radiohead
2017	5,310	146,497	Damn. (307th)by Kendrick Lamar
2018	5,049	109,763	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face) (428th)by Car Seat Headrest
2019	4,380	56,960	Titanic Rising (697th)by Weyes Blood
Total	49,990	1,875,475

The best artists of the 2010s were Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Tame Impala, Frank Ocean, Beach House, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, The National and Vampire Weekend.

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41.

Benji

Sun Kil Moon

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

466 charts

Rank Score:

5,623

Rank in 2014:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

348

Average Rating:

80 (690 votes)

Comments:

42.

The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

Fiona Apple

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

432 charts

Rank Score:

5,583

Rank in 2012:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

350

Average Rating:

81 (602 votes)

Comments:

43.

Melodrama

Lorde

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

461 charts

Rank Score:

5,554

Rank in 2017:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

351

Average Rating:

81 (587 votes)

Comments:

44.

Flower Boy

Tyler, The Creator

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

413 charts

Rank Score:

5,157

Rank in 2017:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

375

Average Rating:

83 (571 votes)

Comments:

45.

Run The Jewels 2

Run The Jewels

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

441 charts

Rank Score:

5,109

Rank in 2014:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

378

Average Rating:

82 (634 votes)

Comments:

46.

Atrocity Exhibition

Danny Brown

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

399 charts

Rank Score:

5,009

Rank in 2016:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

381

Average Rating:

82 (520 votes)

Comments:

47.

Contra

Vampire Weekend

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

494 charts

Rank Score:

4,998

Rank in 2010:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

382

Average Rating:

77 (972 votes)

Comments:

48.

Have One On Me

Joanna Newsom

Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

401 charts

Rank Score:

4,965

Rank in 2010:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

384

Average Rating:

81 (418 votes)

Comments:

49.

Born To Die

Lana Del Rey

Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

355 charts

Rank Score:

4,690

Rank in 2012:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

406

Average Rating:

70 (689 votes)

Comments:

50.

22, A Million

Bon Iver

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

397 charts

Rank Score:

4,674

Rank in 2016:

Rank in 2010s:

Overall Rank:

407

Average Rating:

78 (582 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Year	Albums	%

2010	105	11%
2011	143	14%
2012	120	12%
2013	132	13%
2014	112	11%
2015	104	10%
2016	76	8%
2017	106	11%
2018	71	7%
2019	31	3%

Artist	Albums	%

Death Grips	9	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	6	1%
Kendrick Lamar	5	1%
Brockhampton	5	1%
Beach House	5	1%
Julia Holter	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	568	57%
	213	21%
	66	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	17	2%
	11	1%
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Best Artists of the 2000s
1. Radiohead
2. Arcade Fire
3. The Strokes
4. Coldplay
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. Muse
7. Sufjan Stevens
8. Animal Collective
9. Wilco
10. The White Stripes
11. Kanye West
12. Interpol
13. Modest Mouse
14. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
15. Queens Of The Stone Age
16. The National
17. LCD Soundsystem
18. The Flaming Lips
19. Gorillaz
20. Bon Iver