100 Greatest Albums of 2010

  1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
  2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
  3. Speak Now ** - Taylor Swift
  4. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
  5. Doo Wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars
  6. Pink Friday - Nicki Minaj
  7. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
  8. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
  9. Brothers - The Black Keys
10. Contra - Vampire Weekend
11. High Violet - The National
12. Thank Me Later - Drake
13. Teen Dream - Beach House
14. Body Talk - Robyn
15. Loud - Rihanna
16. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
17. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
18. How I Got Over - The Roots
19. Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
20. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
21. Soldier of Love - Sade
22. Recovery - Eminem
23. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
24. New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh - Erykah Badu
25. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
26. Treats - Sleigh Bells
27. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
28. I Learned the Hard Way - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
29. Swim - Caribou
30. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
31. Diamond Eyes - Deftones
32. The Union - Elton John and Leon Russell
33. Raymond vs. Raymond - Usher
34. One Life Stand - Hot Chip
35. There Is Love In You ** - Four Tet
36. I'm New Here - Gil-Scott Heron
37. Heartland - Owen Pallett
38. All I Want is You - Miguel
39. Innerspeaker - Tame Impala
40. I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling
41. Congratulations - MGMT
42. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance
43. Love Remains - How to Dress Well
44. Everything in Between - No Age
45. Transference - Spoon
46. MAYA - M.I.A.
47. Crazy for You - Best Coast
48. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites ** - Skrillex
49. Wake Up! - John Legend and The Roots
50. American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem
51. Hadestown ** - Anaïs Mitchell
52. Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
53. Total Life Forever - Foals
54. A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park
55. Sea of Cowards - The Dead Weather
56. You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
57. Back to Me - Fantasia
58. Disconnect from Desire - School of Seven Bells
59. The Love & War MasterPeace - Raheem DeVaughn
60. Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
61. The Lady Killer - Cee-Lo Green
62. Infinite Arms - Band of Horses
63. Romance is Boring - Los Campesinos!
64. Animal - Kesha
65. Love King - The-Dream
66. Lights - Ellie Goulding
67. Together - The New Pornographers
68. The Winter of Mixed Drinks - Frightened Rabbit
69. The Big To-Do - Drive-By Truckers
70. Band of Joy - Robert Plant and the Band of Joy
71. Public Strain ** - Women
72. Crystal Castles II - Crystal Castles
73. Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene
74. Mojo - Tom Petty and the Heatbreakers
75. Belle & Sebastian Write About Love - Belle and Sebastian
76. Le Noise - Neil Young
77. My World 2.0 ** - Justin Bieber
78. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night - The Besnard Lakes
79. Teflon Don - Rick Ross
80. King of the Beach - Wavves
81. Eyelid Movies - Phantogram
82. The Fool - Warpaint
83. The Defamation of Strickland Banks - Plan B
84. Volume Two - She & Him
85. Come Around Sundown - Kings of Leon
86. Invented - Jimmy Eat World
87. Progress - Take That
88. Kaleidoscope Heart - Sara Bareilles
89. Heaven is Whenever - The Hold Steady
90. Grinderman 2 ** - Grinderman
91. I Will Be - Dum Dum Girls
92. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives
93. False Priest - Of Montreal
94. Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
95. Before Today - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
96. Écailles de Lune - Alcest
97. Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager - Kid Cudi
98. Odd Blood ** - Yeasayer
99. Good Things ** - Aloe Blacc
100. Eccojams Vol. 1 ** - Chuck Person