Year-End Lists

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

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