My Top 50 Albums of the 2010s
Hey Guys! Sorry for the radio silence, I’ve been working on a lot of exciting projects this semester that I hope to share with you soon! Below I’ve listed my 50 favorite albums from the 2010s. This list is based entirely on my personal enjoyment of each record; I’ll happily debate or defend any albums’s placement on this list but I hope you discover at least one great record from this list. Looking back on the 2010s it’s unbelievable how much amazing music has come out of it; I can’t wait to see what the 2020s have to offer!
1. Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
2. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
3. Passion Pit: Gossamer
4. Jason Robert Brown: Bridges of Madison County
5. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Hamilton
6. Lorde: Pure Heroine
7. Lianne La Havas: Blood
8. Kimbra: Vows
9. Paramore: After Laughter
10. Sampha: Process
11. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly
12. Beyoncé: Lemonade
13. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
14. Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer Different Park
15. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
16. Once: Original Cast Recording
17. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
18. Bon Iver: Bon Iver
19. Billy Childs: Map to the Treasure
20. Jacob Collier: In My Room
21. Adele: 21
22. Coldplay: Ghost Stories
23. Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool
24. Lorde: Melodrama
25. Kendrick Lamar: Damn
26. Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer
27. Lianne La Havas: Is your love big enough?
28. Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto
29. Mumford and Sons: Babel
30. One Republic: Native
31. Jay-Z: 4:44
32. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour
33. Vampire Weekend: Contra
34. Punch Brothers: All Ashore
35. Chloe X Halle: The Kids are Alright
36. Punch Brothers: Phosphorescent Blues
37. Alabama Shakes: Sound and Color
38. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
39. Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid Mad City
40. Jacob Collier: Djesse
41. Billie Eilish: When we all fall asleep, where do we go
42. Kimbra: Golden Echo
43. Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride
44. Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys
45. Joy Ike: All or Nothing
46. D’Angelo: Black Messiah
47. Carly Rae Jepsen: Emotion
48. Pentatonix: Pentatonix
49. Jason Isbell: The Nashville Sound
50. Beck: Morning Phase