Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s

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1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
   Kanye West
2. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
3. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
4. 1989
   Taylor Swift
5. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
6. Body Talk
   Robyn
7. LP1
   FKA twigs
8. Strange Mercy
   St. Vincent
9. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
   Angel Olsen
10. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
11. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
12. Visions
    Grimes
13. Teen Dream
    Beach House
14. XXX
    Danny Brown
15. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
16. Black Up
    Shabazz Palaces
17. Blackstar
    David Bowie
18. Dirty Sprite 2
    Future
19. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
20. Blond
    Frank Ocean
21. Lonerism
    Tame Impala
22. Overgrown
    James Blake
23. Get Disowned
    Hop Along
24. Puberty 2
    Mitski
25. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
26. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
27. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
28. Ctrl
    SZA
29. The Monitor
    Titus Andronicus
30. The ArchAndroid
    Janelle Monáe
31. In Colour
    Jamie xx
32. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
33. Cosmogramma
    Flying Lotus
34. Tramp
    Sharon Van Etten
35. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
36. All We Love We Leave Behind
    Converge
37. Titanic Rising
    Weyes Blood
38. Take Care
    Drake
39. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
40. The Suburbs
    Arcade Fire
41. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
42. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
43. Kentucky
    Panopticon
44. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
45. After Laughter
    Paramore
46. There Is Love in You
    Four Tet
47. Dripping
    Pile
48. Anti
    Rihanna
49. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
50. Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom