Year-End Lists

Consequence of Sound: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]

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 — mbv
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 — E•MO•TION
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