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Top Ten Rock Albums of Each Year
2010-2019

Criteria: These Albums were chosen for their immediate and lasting popularity, impact, influence, originality, and acclaim from critics and musicians.

Last Updated: 2020-01-24
Top Ten Rock Albums of Each Year 2010-2019
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2010
  1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
  2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
  3. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
  4. Doo Wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars
  5. Brothers - The Black Keys
  6. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
  7. Soldier of Love - Sade
  8. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
  9. Contra - Vampire Weekend
10. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2010
100 Greatest Songs 2010
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2011
  1. 21 - Adele
  2. Take Care - Drake
  3. Born This Way - Lady Gaga
  4. Watch the Throne - Jay-Z and Kanye West
  5. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  6. 4 - Beyonce
  7. Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
  8. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
  9. Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
10. 50 Words for Snow - Kate Bush
21 album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2011
100 Greatest Songs 2011
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2012
  1. good kid, M.A.D.D. city - Kendrick Lamar
  2. Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
  3. Babel - Mumford & Sons
  4. Red - Taylor Swift
  5. Some Nights - fun.
  6. The Idler Wheel - Fiona Apple
  7. Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars
  8. Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
  9. Blunderbuss - Jack White
10. The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
good kid, M.A.D.D. city album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2012
100 Greatest Songs 2012
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2013
  1. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
  2. The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake
  3. Yeezus - Kanye West
  4. Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
  5. AM - Arctic Monkeys
  6. The Next Day - David Bowie
  7. mbv - My Bloody Valentine
  8. Beyoncé - Beyoncé
  9. Paramore - Paramore
10. Nothing Was the Same - Drake
Random Access Memories album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2013
100 Greatest Songs 2013
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2014
  1. 1989 - Taylor Swift
  2. Black Messiah - D'Angelo & The Vanguard
  3. Run the Jewels II - Run the Jewels
  4. In the Lonely Hour - Sam Smith
  5. X - Ed Sheeran
  6. Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs
  7. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
  8. High Hopes - Bruce Springsteen
  9. G I R L - Pharrell Williams
10. Turn Blue - The Black Keys
1989 album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2014
100 Greatest Songs 2014
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2015
  1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
  2. 25 - Adele
  3. Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
  4. Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording - Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast
  5. Art Angels - Grimes
  6. Beauty Behind the Madness - The Weeknd
  7. Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes
  8. Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen
  9. Traveller - Chris Stapleton
10. Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett
To Pimp a Butterfly album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2015
100 Greatest Songs 2015
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2016
  1. Lemonade - Beyoncé
  2. Blackstar - David Bowie
  3. We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest
  4. A Seat at the Table - Solange
  5. Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper
  6. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
  7. ANTI - Rihanna
  8. The Life of Pablo - Kanye West
  9. 22, A Million - Bon Iver
10. Blonde - Frank Ocean
Lemonade Beyonce album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2016
100 Greatest Songs 2016
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2017
  1. DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
  2. 4:44 - Jay-Z
  3. A Crow Looked at Me - Mount Eerie
  4. Melodrama - Lorde
  5. CTRL - SZA
  6. Big Fish Theory - Vince Staples
  7. More Life - Drake
  8. Divide - Ed Sheeran
  9. Reputation - Taylor Swift
10. MASSEDUCTION - St. Vincent
DAMN. Kendrick Lamar album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2017
100 Greatest Songs 2017
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2018
  1. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe
  2. Sweetener - Ariana Grande
  3. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
  4. Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B
  5. Black Panther soundtrack - Kendrick Lamar & various artists
  6. A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships - The 1975
  7. Be the Cowboy - Mitski
  8. Astroworld - Travis Scott
  9. Daytona - Pusha T
10. A Star is Born soundtrack - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2018
100 Greatest Songs 2018
Top Ten Rock Albums of 2019
  1. Norman Fucking Rockwell! - Lana Del Rey
  2. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - Billie Eilish
  3. Cuz I Love You - Lizzo
  4. Father of the Bride - Vampire Weekend
  5. Lover - Taylor Swift
  6. Homecoming: The Live Album - Beyoncé
  7. Fear Inoculum - Tool
  8. thank u, next - Ariana Grande
  9. Ghosteen - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
10. 7 - Lil Nas X
Norman Fucking Rockwell! - Lana Del Rey album cover
100 Greatest Albums 2019
100 Greatest Songs 2019




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