Year-End Lists

Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

1. Frank Ocean
   Blond
2. Kanye West
   My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Beyoncé
   Beyoncé
4. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
5. Fiona Apple
   The Idler Wheel…
6. Solange
   A Seat at the Table
7. Vampire Weekend
   Modern Vampires of the City
8. Robyn
   Body Talk
9. D’Angelo and The Vanguard
   Black Messiah
10. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
11. Grimes
    Art Angels
12. Rihanna
    Anti
13. Drake
    Take Care
14. Lorde
    Melodrama
15. Kanye West
    Yeezus
16. Joanna Newsom
    Have One On Me
17. Sufjan Stevens
    Carrie & Lowell
18. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
19. Lana Del Rey
    Norman Fucking Rockwell!
20. DJ Rashad
    Double Cup
21. Beach House
    Teen Dream
22. Destroyer
    Kaputt
23. Kacey Musgraves
    Golden Hour
24. SZA
    Ctrl
25. Jamie xx
    In Colour
26. Angel Olsen
    Burn Your Fire For No Witness
27. Earl Sweatshirt
    Some Rap Songs
28. FKA twigs
    LP1
29. Deerhunter
    Halcyon Digest
30. Mitski
    Puberty 2
31. Beyoncé
    4
32. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
33. Big Thief
    U.F.O.F.
34. Vince Staples
    Summertime ’06
35. Blood Orange
    Cupid Deluxe
36. Rosalía
    El Mal Querer
37. David Bowie
    Blackstar
38. Tierra Whack
    Whack World
39. Bill Callahan
    Apocalypse
40. Charli XCX
    Pop 2
41. Beyoncé
    Lemonade
42. Erykah Badu
    New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh
43. Sky Ferreira
    Night Time, My Time
44. A Tribe Called Quest
    We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
45. Mount Eerie
    A Crow Looked at Me
46. The Knife
    Shaking the Habitual
47. Carly Rae Jepsen
    E•MO•TION
48. ANOHNI
    Hopelessness
49. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Replica
50. Grimes
    Visions
51. DJ Koze
    Knock Knock
52. LCD Soundsystem
    This Is Happening
53. Jlin
    Black Origami
54. Young Thug
    Barter 6
55. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
56. Björk
    Vulnicura
57. Kendrick Lamar
    Damn
58. Kamasi Washington
    The Epic
59. Taylor Swift
    Red
60. King Krule
    The OOZ
61. Arca
    Arca
62. Grouper
    Ruins
63. Danny Brown
    XXX
64. Mitski
    Be the Cowboy
65. Future
    Dirty Sprite 2
66. Fever Ray
    Plunge
67. Courtney Barnett
    Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
68. Flying Lotus
    Cosmogramma
69. Drake
    If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
70. Perfume Genius
    No Shape
71. Robyn
    Honey
72. Father John Misty
    I Love You, Honeybear
73. Cardi B
    Invasion of Privacy
74. Sophie
    Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
75. The Weeknd
    House of Balloons
76. Arcade Fire
    The Suburbs
77. Four Tet
    There Is Love in You
78. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
79. Tame Impala
    Currents
80. Aphex Twin
    Syro
81. Solange
    When I Get Home
82. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
83. Burial
    Rival Dealer
84. Chance The Rapper
    Acid Rap
85. Jessica Pratt
    On Your Own Love Again
86. Haim
    Days Are Gone
87. Rae Sremmurd
    SremmLife
88. Jenny Hval
    Apocalypse, Girl
89. Caribou
    Our Love
90. Joyce Manor
    Never Hungover Again
91. Bon Iver
    22, A Million
92. Jay-Z and Kanye West
    Watch the Throne
93. Tirzah
    Devotion
94. Vampire Weekend
    Contra
95. Jai Paul
    Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
96. Low
    Double Negative
97. The War on Drugs
    Lost in the Dream
98. Todd Terje
    It’s Album Time
99. Bad Bunny
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100. Ariana Grande
     Sweetener
101. Chromatics
     Kill for Love
102. Jeremih
     Late Nights: The Album
103. Helado Negro
     This Is How You Smile
104. Waxahatchee
     Cerulean Salt
105. Disclosure
     Settle
106. Moses Sumney
     Aromanticism
107. Dirty Projectors
     Swing Lo Magellan
108. KAYTRANADA
     99.9%
109. Julia Holter
     Aviary
110. Waka Flocka Flame
     Flockaveli
111. EMA
     Past Life Martyred Saints
112. Daft Punk
     Random Access Memories
113. Japandroids
     Celebration Rock
114. Sampha
     Process
115. U.S. Girls
     In a Poem Unlimited
116. Janelle Monáe
     The ArchAndroid
117. Death Grips
     The Money Store
118. Leonard Cohen
     You Want It Darker
119. girlpool
     Before the World Was Big
120. Tyler, The Creator
     Flower Boy
121. The Hotelier
     Home, Like Noplace Is There
122. Snail Mail
     Lush
123. Deafheaven
     Sunbather
124. Real Estate
     Days
125. Yves Tumor
     Safe in the Hands of Love
126. Panda Bear
     Tomboy
127. Car Seat Headrest
     Teens of Denial
128. Radiohead
     A Moon Shaped Pool
129. various artists
     Bangs & Works, Vol. 1 (A Chicago Footwork Compilation)
130. Tame Impala
     Lonerism
131. Run the Jewels
     Run the Jewels 2
132. Amen Dunes
     Freedom
133. Frankie Cosmos
     Zentropy
134. M83
     Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
135. Fleet Foxes
     Helplessness Blues
136. Tim Hecker
     Ravedeath, 1972
137. A$AP Rocky
     LIVE.LOVE.A$AP
138. Alabama Shakes
     Sound & Color
139. Emeralds
     Does It Look Like I'm Here?
140. Parquet Courts
     Sunbathing Animal
141. Rick Ross
     Rich Forever
142. Fennesz
     Agora
143. Weyes Blood
     Titanic Rising
144. PJ Harvey
     Let England Shake
145. Chief Keef
     Finally Rich
146. Sheer Mag
     Compilation (I, II & III)
147. The National
     High Violet
148. Nicolas Jaar
     Space is Only Noise
149. Mac DeMarco
     2
150. Playboi Carti
     Playboi Carti
151. Lady Gaga
     The Fame Monster
152. Arctic Monkeys
     AM
153. Purple Mountains
     Purple Mountains
154. Mica Levi
     Under the Skin
155. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
     Savage Mode
156. Jenny Lewis
     The Voyager
157. The 1975
     A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
158. Sleigh Bells
     Treats
159. Pallbearer
     Foundations of Burden
160. Noname
     Room 25
161. The 1975
     I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
162. Sturgill Simpson
     Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
163. Meek Mill
     Dreamchasers 2
164. Hop Along
     Painted Shut
165. Jay Som
     Everybody Works
166. Nicki Minaj
     The Pinkprint
167. (Sandy) Alex G
     DSU
168. Julianna Barwick
     The Magic Place
169. Paramore
     After Laughter
170. Skee Mask
     Compro
171. JPEGMAFIA
     Veteran
172. Popcaan
     Where We Come From
173. Hurray for the Riff Raff
     Small Town Heroes
174. Sharon Van Etten
     Are We There
175. Jessie Ware
     Devotion
176. Gil Scott-Heron
     I'm New Here
177. Margo Price
     All American Made
178. Savages
     Silence Yourself
179. Shabazz Palaces
     Black Up
180. Chvrches
     The Bones Of What You Believe
181. Jamila Woods
     LEGACY! LEGACY!
182. G.L.O.S.S.
     Trans Day of Revenge
183. Elysia Crampton
     American Drift
184. Soccer Mommy
     Clean
185. Hailu Mergia
     Lala Belu
186. various artists
     Mono No Aware
187. Iceage
     Beyondless
188. Pusha T
     Daytona
189. Miranda Lambert
     The Weight of These Wings
190. Huerco S
     For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
191. Kate Bush
     50 Words for Snow
192. Kelela
     Cut 4 Me
193. Lil Peep
     Hellboy
194. Titus Andronicus
     The Monitor
195. Downtown Boys
     Full Communism
196. Portal
     Vexovoid
197. Fatima Al Qadiri
     Genre-specific Xperience
198. Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris
     Everything's Fine
199. WU LYF
     Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
200. Ratking
     So It Goes