Year-End Lists

Consequence of Sound: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s. Consequence of Sound is now known as Consequence.

1. Beyoncé
   Lemonade
2. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Kanye West
   My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Lorde
   Melodrama
5. Vampire Weekend
   Modern Vampires of the City
6. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
7. Robyn
   Body Talk
8. Kendrick Lamar
   good kid, m.A.A.d city
9. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
10. Mitski
    Be the Cowboy
11. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
12. Kanye West
    Yeezus
13. Tame Impala
    Currents
14. Janelle Monáe
    Dirty Computer
15. Billie Eilish
    When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
16. The War on Drugs
    Lost in the Dream
17. David Bowie
    Blackstar
18. Arcade Fire
    The Suburbs
19. Adele
    21
20. SZA
    Ctrl
21. The National
    High Violet
22. Against Me!
    Transgender Dysphoria Blues
23. Angel Olsen
    My Woman
24. Taylor Swift
    1989
25. Kendrick Lamar
    Damn
26. Jamie xx
    In Colour
27. Arctic Monkeys
    AM
28. M83
    Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
29. Solange
    A Seat at the Table
30. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
31. LCD Soundsystem
    This Is Happening
32. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Skeleton Tree
33. Grimes
    Art Angels
34. Vince Staples
    Big Fish Theory
35. Gorillaz
    Plastic Beach
36. Kamasi Washington
    Heaven and Earth
37. Lana Del Rey
    Ultraviolence
38. Chance The Rapper
    Acid Rap
39. Beach House
    Teen Dream
40. Deafheaven
    Sunbather
41. James Blake
    James Blake
42. Björk
    Vulnicura
43. Sufjan Stevens
    Carrie & Lowell
44. Disclosure
    Settle
45. Father John Misty
    I Love You, Honeybear
46. Anderson .Paak
    Malibu
47. Daft Punk
    Random Access Memories
48. Flying Lotus
    Cosmogramma
49. Sharon Van Etten
    Remind Me Tomorrow
50. Jay-Z and Kanye West
    Watch the Throne
51. Jamila Woods
    LEGACY! LEGACY!
52. Sky Ferreira
    Night Time, My Time
53. D’Angelo and The Vanguard
    Black Messiah
54. Mount Eerie
    A Crow Looked at Me
55. Lucy Dacus
    Historian
56. Frank Ocean
    Blond
57. St. Vincent
    MASSEDUCTION
58. Blood Orange
    Negro Swan
59. Titus Andronicus
    The Most Lamentable Tragedy
60. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
61. Joanna Newsom
    Have One On Me
62. Saba
    Care for Me
63. Spiritualized
    Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
64. Angel Olsen
    All Mirrors
65. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
66. Lady Gaga
    Joanne
67. The National
    Trouble Will Find Me
68. A Tribe Called Quest
    We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
69. Paramore
    After Laughter
70. Katy Perry
    Teenage Dream
71. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels 2
72. My Bloody Valentine
    m b v
73. FKA twigs
    LP1
74. Drake
    Take Care
75. Haim
    Days Are Gone
76. Sleater-Kinney
    No Cities To Love
77. Deerhunter
    Halcyon Digest
78. Noname
    Room 25
79. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
80. Foo Fighters
    Wasting Light
81. Rihanna
    Anti
82. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
83. Cardi B
    Invasion of Privacy
84. Thundercat
    The Golden Age of Apocalypse
85. Kacey Musgraves
    Golden Hour
86. Spoon
    Hot Thoughts
87. Christine and the Queens
    Chris
88. Lady Lamb
    After
89. Big Boi
    Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty
90. Carly Rae Jepsen
    Emotion
91. Courtney Barnett
    Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
92. Caribou
    Our Love
93. Brockhampton
    iridescence
94. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
95. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Replica
96. Bon Iver
    22, A Million
97. Ariana Grande
    Thank U, Next
98. Destroyer
    Kaputt
99. Savages
    Silence Yourself
100. PJ Harvey
     Let England Shake