Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

~ Release group series

Release groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	2016	Blonde	Frank Ocean	Album	4.25	5
2	2010	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West	Album	4.25	18
3	2013	BEYONCÉ	Beyoncé	Album	3.8	28
4	2015	To Pimp a Butterfly	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.6	13
5	2012	The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do	Fiona Apple	Album	4	11
6	2016	A Seat at the Table	Solange	Album	4	4
7	2013	Modern Vampires of the City	Vampire Weekend	Album	4.35	8
8	2010	Body Talk	Robyn	Album		14
9	2014	Black Messiah	D’Angelo and The Vanguard	Album	2.5	6
10	2012	channel ORANGE	Frank Ocean	Album	3.8	11
11	2015	Art Angels	Grimes	Album	4.55	10
12	2016	ANTI	Rihanna	Album	4.55	22
13	2011	Take Care	Drake	Album	4.2	11
14	2017	Melodrama	Lorde	Album	4.25	12
15	2013	Yeezus	Kanye West	Album	3.7	9
16	2010	Have One on Me	Joanna Newsom	Album	4.65	5
17	2015	Carrie & Lowell	Sufjan Stevens	Album	4.5	7
18	2012	good kid, m.A.A.d city	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.45	31
19	2019	Norman Fucking Rockwell!	Lana Del Rey	Album	4.4	40
20	2013	Double Cup	DJ Rashad	Album		4
21	2010	Teen Dream	Beach House	Album	3.65	7
22	2011	Kaputt	Destroyer	Album	4	6
23	2018	Golden Hour	Kacey Musgraves	Album	3	12
24	2017	Ctrl	SZA	Album	4	8
25	2015	In Colour	Jamie xx	Album	4.25	9
26	2014	Burn Your Fire for No Witness	Angel Olsen	Album	5	5
27	2018	Some Rap Songs	Earl Sweatshirt	Album	3.85	3
28	2014	LP1	FKA twigs	Album	3.9	7
29	2010	Halcyon Digest	Deerhunter	Album	4.35	8
30	2016	Puberty 2	Mitski	Album	5	11
31	2011	4	Beyoncé	Album	3.85	21
32	2011	Bon Iver, Bon Iver	Bon Iver	Album	4.15	14
33	2019	U.F.O.F.	Big Thief	Album	4.25	6
34	2015	Summertime ’06	Vince Staples	Album	3	5
35	2013	Cupid Deluxe	Blood Orange	Album	4.5	2
36	2018	EL MAL QUERER	ROSALÍA	Album	3.9	3
37	2016	★ (Blackstar)	David Bowie	Album	4.35	15
38	2018	Whack World	Tierra Whack	Album	4.25	5
39	2011	Apocalypse	Bill Callahan	Album	3.65	4
40	2017	Pop 2	Charli XCX	Album + Mixtape/Street	4.5	5
41	2016	Lemonade	Beyoncé	Album	3.85	22
42	2009	New Amerykah, Part Two (Return of the Ankh)	Erykah Badu	Album	3.5	5
43	2013	Night Time, My Time	Sky Ferreira	Album	4.5	10
44	2016	We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service	A Tribe Called Quest	Album	4	8
45	2017	A Crow Looked at Me	Mount Eerie	Album	4	4
46	2013	Shaking the Habitual	The Kniфe	Album		14
47	2015	E•MO•TION	Carly Rae Jepsen	Album	4.4	22
48	2016	HOPELESSNESS	ANOHNI	Album	3.75	7
49	2011	Replica	Oneohtrix Point Never	Album	4	9
50	2012	Visions	Grimes	Album	4.3	22
51	2018	Knock Knock	DJ Koze	Album	3.25	4
52	2010	This Is Happening	LCD Soundsystem	Album	4.65	17
53	2017	Black Origami	Jlin	Album	2.5	4
54	2015	Barter 6	Young Thug	Album + Mixtape/Street	3.65	2
55	2011	Strange Mercy	St. Vincent	Album	5	6
56	2015	Vulnicura	Björk	Album	3.85	9
57	2017	DAMN.	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.25	16
58	2015	The Epic	Kamasi Washington	Album	4.35	8
59	2012	Red	Taylor Swift	Album	4.3	82
60	2017	The Ooz	King Krule	Album		4
61	2017	Arca	Arca	Album	4	6
62	2014	Ruins	Grouper	Album	2.5	3
63	2011	XXX	Danny Brown	Album	4	3
64	2018	Be the Cowboy	Mitski	Album	4	10
65	2015	DS2	Future	Album	3.35	9
66	2017	Plunge	Fever Ray	Album	4	7
67	2015	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit	Courtney Barnett	Album	4.5	13
68	2010	Cosmogramma	Flying Lotus	Album	4	5
69	2015	If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late	Drake	Album + Mixtape/Street	2.5	7
70	2017	No Shape	Perfume Genius	Album	3.5	3
71	2018	Honey	Robyn	Album		22
72	2015	I Love You, Honeybear	Father John Misty	Album	4.5	8
73	2018	Invasion of Privacy	Cardi B	Album	4.1	13
74	2018	OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN‐INSIDES	SOPHIE	Album	4	2
75	2011	House of Balloons	The Weeknd	Album + Mixtape/Street	4.65	10
76	2010	The Suburbs	Arcade Fire	Album	3.95	29
77	2010	There Is Love in You	Four Tet	Album	3.4	6
78	2011	Smoke Ring for My Halo	Kurt Vile	Album	5	6
79	2015	Currents	Tame Impala	Album	3.9	14
80	2014	Syro	Aphex Twin	Album	4.15	8
81	2019	When I Get Home	Solange	Album	3.75	2
82	2011	Father, Son, Holy Ghost	Girls	Album	3.75	10
83	2013	Rival Dealer	Burial	EP	4	5
84	2013	Acid Rap	Chance the Rapper	Album + Mixtape/Street	3.15	9
85	2015	On Your Own Love Again	Jessica Pratt	Album		4
86	2013	Days Are Gone	HAIM	Album	4.5	18
87	2015	SremmLife	Rae Sremmurd	Album		2
88	2015	Apocalypse, girl	Jenny Hval	Album		4
89	2014	Our Love	Caribou	Album	4	10
90	2014	Never Hungover Again	Joyce Manor	Album	2.5	5
91	2016	22, a Million	Bon Iver	Album	3.5	7
92	2011	Watch the Throne	Jay‐Z & Kanye West	Album	3.35	18
93	2018	Devotion	Tirzah	Album	3.5	4
94	2010	Contra	Vampire Weekend	Album	4.3	11
95	2013	Leak 04–13 (Bait Ones)	Jai Paul	Album + Demo	4	2
96	2018	Double Negative	Low	Album	3	6
97	2014	Lost in the Dream	The War on Drugs	Album	4.35	3
98	2014	It’s Album Time	Todd Terje	Album	4.75	3
99	2018	X 100PRE	Bad Bunny	Album	3.75	2
100	2018	Sweetener	Ariana Grande	Album	3.85	22

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