Best Of The 2010s: Critics’ Lists

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Best of 2010s: Music

Consequence | Music, Movie, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground

Consequence is your source for breaking news about music, film, and TV, plus daily reviews, exclusive interviews, original videos, and more.

consequenceofsound.net

The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s

These are the albums that defined the decade as we lived it.

www.stereogum.com

The Best Music of the 2010s

Pitchfork takes a deep dive into the artists, genres, and movements that shaped the past ten years

pitchfork.com

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

This list is about real people and real collections. It’s comprised of records that Discogs users have either bought or want to buy, and it paints a fascinating picture of popular music post-2010.

blog.discogs.com

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked

Kendrick. Kanye. Frank. Taylor. Beyonce. The last ten years have given us landmark albums from music’s biggest stars.

uproxx.com

100 greatest albums of the 2010s

A look back at the game-changing albums of the 2010s, from Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Beyonce, Jay-Z and more.

www.cleveland.com

2010s Music Decade List Aggregate

www.albumoftheyear.org

The 30 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

Aquarium Drunkard : Decade / 2010-19 : Aquarium Drunkard

Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing to break through the noise of an increasingly distracting age, and stick around in our heads.

aquariumdrunkard.com

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

How do you narrow an entire decade of genre-breaking music down to a list of 100 albums? It's an impossible task, but we did it.

www.vice.com

The 20 Best Music Videos Of The 2010s

A look back at the most memorable clips from an era in which the video's role changed, but became surprisingly more prominent.

www.stereogum.com

The 200 Best Songs Of The 2010s

These are the songs that have stayed with us through the last 10 years and will stick with us long after the decade is over.

www.stereogum.com

The best and worst albums of the past decade, according to critics

The past decade was full of both impressive and boring records. Here are the best and worst albums of the past ten years according to critics.

www.insider.com

The Genius Community’s 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

Pusha T, Lana Del Rey and J.Cole all made the list, but who will be at the top?

genius.com

The Young Folks' Top 50 Albums of the 2010s | The Young Folks

In a decade that saw the rise of streaming, the album came out of the 2010s alive and well. The LP rose again, dwarfing the dying compact disc by the end of the decade, and some of the biggest artists of the era issued defining album statements that demanded to be played all the way…

www.theyoungfolks.com

The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 66 Best Metal Albums of the 2010s

Ranking the 66 best metal albums of the 2010s (2010-2019).

loudwire.com

Top 25 Pop Songs of the 2010s

The future might seem bleak, but these tracks keep us optimistic.

consequenceofsound.net

The 40 best (and biggest!) country songs from the 2010s

Flip through the gallery below for a look back at the past decade’s best (and biggest!) country tunes, from Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert’s barn-burning “Somethin’ Bad” to Tim McGraw’s uplifting “Humble and Kind.”

www.yardbarker.com

The 50 best albums of the last decade

After much fervent and impassioned debate, critics Alexandra Pollard, Roisin O'Connor, Jazz Monroe, Helen Brown and Patrick Smith picked their favourites from a decade of disparate and daring records

www.independent.co.uk

The Best Rappers of the 2010s

The best rappers that defined the 2010-2019 decade, including Drake, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, and more.

www.complex.com

The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s

From Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' to Kendrick Lamar's 'DAMN.,' these are TIME's picks for the best albums of the decade

time.com

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The 25 Best Music Videos of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 66 Best Metal Songs of the Decade

This makes for one ridiculous playlist.

loudwire.com

'Lemonade' and Other Masterpiece Albums From the 2010s That Will Stand the Test of Time

Beyoncé's music will always be genius.

www.goodhousekeeping.com

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Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 10 Best Music Videos Of The Decade, Ranked

From Chandelier to Formation, these are the music videos that defined the decade from 2010 to 2020.

screenrant.com

The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 2010s: Staff Picks

Here are 100 of the biggest reasons why the music video feels in a far healthier place moving into the 2020s than it did a decade ago.

www.billboard.com

Play it again: Listening to the best Japanese music from the 2010s | The Japan Times

Let us whisk you away to 2049, the end of a decade in which music fans have mined the record collections of their parents, bringing new life to Japanese pop of the 2010s

www.japantimes.co.jp

The Best Albums of The Decade: The 2010s

Here it is: the ultimate guide to the 100 essential albums of the 2010s, picked, ranked and dissected by NME experts.

www.nme.com

The most overlooked albums of the 2010s

Featuring Dr Dre., Janet Jackson, Gerard Way, and more

ew.com

The 25 Best Country Albums of the 2010s: Staff List

For country music, the past decade has arguably seen the most change since the genre’s inception. The 2010s marked the evolution of the country sound to embody elements of pop, rock, EDM and hip-hop as well as bluegrass, Americana and more traditional-leaning country instrumentation.

www.billboard.com

The 35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s: Staff List

From Pistol Annies to Luke Combs, Luke Bryan, Dan + Shay, Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay and Carrie Underwood, country artists left us with a treasure trove of great songs over the past decade.

www.billboard.com

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

From Kanye West and Beyoncé to Chance the Rapper, Taylor Swift, Kacey Musgraves, Frank Ocean: 100 of the best albums from 2010-2019.

www.rollingstone.com

 

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Best of 2010s: Movies

30 Great Movies That Defined the 2010s

The Spin staff pays tribute to some of the best and most important movies of the 2010s.

www.spin.com

The 100 Best Movies of the Decade

The best movies from a decade that changed everything.

www.indiewire.com

The 30 Best Documentaries of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The Best Bollywood Movies of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The Best Anime Movies of the 2010s

The 2010s were a great decade for all things anime, from Makoto Shinkai to Hayao Miyazaki. Here are the best anime movies from that decade:

www.pastemagazine.com

The Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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The Best Horror Movies of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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The 30 best films of the decade, ranked

Need something great to watch during lockdown? These are the best movies of the 2010s (according to us).

www.cnet.com

The 50 Best Horror Movies of the Decade

Monsters, killers, cults, and more... these are the best horror films of the decade as decided by eight horror-loving nerds with internet access.

filmschoolrejects.com

The best movies of the decade, according to us

The Polygon staff submits its own favorites, and invites you to do the same

www.polygon.com

The 10 Best Movies of the 2010s

From 'Before Midnight' to 'Moonlight,' these are TIME's picks for the best movies of the decade

time.com

The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

From a field in England to a barren wasteland governed by a cult of paint-huffing thugs, here are the best movies of the 2010s:

www.pastemagazine.com

The 50 Best Comedy Movies of the Decade

Putting together a definitive ranking is tough, but we're trying anyway. Here are the best comedy movies of the decade.

filmschoolrejects.com

The A.V. Club's 100 best movies of the 2010s

A truly comprehensive list would go well beyond 100, though even then, we’d probably still miss a few of your favorites.

film.avclub.com

Top 100 Films of the 2010s

It's been a decade full of genre-bending experiments, bold new voices, and revelatory career peaks. Read our complete and comprehensive list.

consequenceofsound.net

The Best Movies of the 2010s Represent Who We Are and Where We've Been

We narrow down the 10 best films from a decade that changed the foundations of cinema as we know it.

www.esquire.com

The 20 Best Comedies of the Decade, Ranked

Our ranked list of the best comedies of the decade runs down the funniest films of the 2010s, including Bridesmaids, Popstar, Frances Ha, Deadpool, and more

collider.com

The 40 best films of the last decade

After a decade of films that unearthed truths, reflected our ugliest instincts and put adorable bears in jail, Clarisse Loughrey, Geoffrey Macnab and Adam White curated the definitive rundown of the best of the 2010s

www.independent.co.uk

The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the Decade

In reconsidering the films of the past ten years, I found that some of my own priorities and passions had shifted.

www.newyorker.com

The Best Movies Of The 2010s Decade

The Uproxx entertainment staff picked their favorite movies from the past decade. Here are the results.

uproxx.com

 

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Best of 2010s: Television

The Best TV Shows of the Decade, Ranked

From “Breaking Bad” and “Atlanta” to “Fleabag” and “BoJack,” these are the best scripted TV shows from 2010 to 2019.

www.indiewire.com

The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 25 Best Shows of the Decade 2010-2019

Every show on this list is unimpeachable

www.tvguide.com

Here Are The 55 Best TV Shows Of The Decade

From <i>Parks and Recreation</i> to <i>Fleabag</i> and everything in between.

www.buzzfeed.com

The Best, Worst, and Most Memorable TV Moments of the Decade

These are the scenes and storylines we won't soon forget

www.tvguide.com

The 30 most influential TV shows of the decade, ranked

From King's Landing to Madison Avenue, the 2010's blessed us with a wealth of excellent TV.

www.cnet.com

The 100 best TV shows of the 2010s

Trying to define television in the 2010s has proven just as great a task as keeping up with the surge in series, which crested in 2018 with 495 scripted shows. The plethora of options—not just in series, but platforms, including upstarts turned streaming elders Netflix and Hulu—makes it nearly...

tv.avclub.com

The Best TV Pilots of the Decade, Ranked

From "Atlanta" to "Watchmen," these 20 series expertly built worlds of their own, breaking the rules to make them more relevant to ours.

www.indiewire.com

The 10 Best TV Shows of the 2010s

From 'Mad Men' to 'Fleabag,' these are TIME's picks for the best TV series of the decade

time.com

The 10 Best Miniseries of the 2010s

From 'Top of the Lake' to 'Sharp Objects,' these are TIME's picks for the best miniseries of the decade

time.com

The 50 Best TV Shows of the Decade

From 2010 to 2019, we had more TV shows at our fingertips than ever before. The FSR team chose the best the era had to offer.

filmschoolrejects.com

Top 100 TV Shows of the 2010s

A collection of series both daring and familiar, polished and wild.

consequenceofsound.net

The Best TV Shows of the 2010s Manage to Stand Out in the Greatest Decade of Television

The era of "Peak TV" marked a fundamental shift in what we watch, where we watch it, and what the medium is capable of intellectually.

www.esquire.com

The 10 Best TV Shows of the 2010s

The shows to look back on and see a complete vision, an honest reckoning, a joyful romp. Plus—the shows that didn't make the cut, the decade's best episodes, and where to stream our favorites.

www.vanityfair.com

Opinion: The Best TV Shows of the 2010s

We countdown our favorite TV shows of the past decade (2010s) in a brand new opinion piece from Geek Vibes Nation

geekvibesnation.com

The 10 Best TV Shows of the Decade

THR’s chief TV critic picks his favorite shows of the decade, including a trio of powerhouse AMC dramas, a couple of boundary-pushing auteur comedies and a network gem that overcame a bad first sea…

www.hollywoodreporter.com

The 60 Best TV Shows of the Decade

The Collider staff picks the best TV shows of the 2010s, from the award-winning hits like Fleabag and Atlanta to the gems that slipped under the radar.

collider.com

The Best Television Shows Of The 2010s Decade

From dramas about advertising executives and meth-cooking teachers to comedies about cartoon horses and civil servants. What a decade.

uproxx.com

The 30 best TV shows of the last decade

After 10 years of big-budget drama, reality TV revivals and the rise of streaming, Ed Cumming and Fiona Sturges have curated the definitive rundown of the best of the 2010s

www.independent.co.uk

The best TV shows of the decade

'Entertainment Weekly' TV critics Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich pick their favorite TV series of the 2010s.

ew.com

50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s

From obscure, oddball masterpieces ('Baskets') to epic, blockbuster-grade spectacles ('Game of Thrones'), this decade gave us almost too much great television to handle. Here are the 50 shows that stand above the rest

www.rollingstone.com

Best of the 2010s: 10 animated TV shows that defined the decade

2010 as a decade gave life to some incredible TV shows, especially in the animated realm. In honor of the decade ending, let's look back at 10 of the best.

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Best of 2010s: Everything Else

The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 100 best games of the decade (2010-2019): 100-51

Polygon picks our favorite games of the past 10 years

www.polygon.com

Mars, memories and monsters: The decade in fiction

Readers rejoice! The novel is far from dead, as fiction from the 2010s points a searing eye at our past and future.

www.cnet.com

From Gangnam Style to Pizza Rat, here are the decade's 17 top viral videos

We’ve got double rainbows, water-bottle flipping, a rainbow-farting cat and those songs you’ll never get out of your head, especially on Friday, Friday.

www.cnet.com

The 30 best video games of the decade, ranked

The 2010s were an incredible time for video games. Here are our favorites.

www.cnet.com

The 100 Best Videogames of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

Best YA Books of the 2010's | The Young Folks

The Young Folks lists the top 25 young adult books of the decade. From dystopian classics to romantic comedies, we look back on which stories made an impact.

www.theyoungfolks.com

The best comics of the decade

A panel-by-panel view of the 2010s

www.polygon.com

The 30 Best Podcasts of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

GAMINGbible's Greatest Games Of The Decade

Rounding up the very best of the best - but is your favourite amongst our top 25?

www.ladbible.com

The 100 best, worst, and weirdest things we saw on the internet in the 2010s

We dug up 100 things that brought us joy, bafflement, and everything in between this decade.

aux.avclub.com

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s

True stories of grief and recovery, dreams and disappointments

time.com

Books of the Decade: 10 Best Graphic Novels of the 2010s

What's been your favourite graphic novel of the decade?

culturedvultures.com

'Dark Souls'? 'The Last of Us'? Top 50 games of the 2010s

When making a best-of list, it's tempting to swap out "best" for another superlative: "most important."

auburnpub.com

The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s

Propulsive, moving and timeless

time.com

The 50 Best American Breweries of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The 25 best comics of the 2010s

It's been a big decade for comics, both online and in print. Here are The A.V. Club's favorites.

aux.avclub.com

'Dark Souls'? 'The Last of Us'? Top 50 games of the 2010s

When making a best-of list, it's tempting to swap out "best" for another superlative: "most important." That's especially true for the best-of-the-decade lists being published as the 2010s wind down.

tucson.com

The most influential board games of the decade, according to top designers

Four leading board game developers weigh in on a decade that changed tabletop forever

www.polygon.com

The 30 Best Fantasy Novels of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

The Best Memes of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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The best comics of the decade

From 'Saga' to Batman, EW picks the 15 best comic books of the decade

ew.com

The Dankest Memes of the 2010s

So dank.

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The 30 Best Fantasy Novels of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

Our 25 Favorite Beers of the 2010s

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

What is the most underrated pop culture of the 2010s?

In continuation of our “best of the decade” coverage, this week we’re asking:

www.avclub.com

The 50 Best Video Games of the Decade (2010-2019)

With the 2010s coming to a close, here are the games that left the biggest impact in the last ten years on an artistic and cultural level.

www.dualshockers.com

The Best Books of the 2010s Nudged the World in a New, Better Direction

These are the stories—both fiction and nonfiction—that challenged the limits of what literature can do and be.

www.esquire.com

The Best Anime Of The Decade - 2010 And 2011

In this series, I will be looking back on 50 of anime's greatest hits of the '10s year by year. This week: ten remarkable shows from 2010 and 2011.

www.forbes.com

Best Of The Decade: 10 Most Controversial Comic Books Since 2010

Feminist comics to controversial storylines, these are the books that turned heads in the past ten years.

www.cbr.com

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

God i love list season so much!

The website AOTY is doing an aggregate of the best album of the dedcade list if youre interested in seeing that

2010s Music Decade List Aggregate

www.albumoftheyear.org

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

God i love list season so much!

The website AOTY is doing an aggregate of the best album of the dedcade list if youre interested in seeing that

2010s Music Decade List Aggregate

www.albumoftheyear.org

Dope! That's a good one. Thanks!

 

[NathanRicaud]

God i love list season so much!

The website AOTY is doing an aggregate of the best album of the dedcade list if youre interested in seeing that

2010s Music Decade List Aggregate

www.albumoftheyear.org

YAY! Such a great top 5 so far!!!

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly at #1
Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at #2
Frank Ocean’s Blonde at #3
Beyoncé’s Lemonade at #4
Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid m.A.A.d City at #5

 

[NathanRicaud]

God i love list season so much!

The website AOTY is doing an aggregate of the best album of the dedcade list if youre interested in seeing that

2010s Music Decade List Aggregate

www.albumoftheyear.org

Kanye West, Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar all have two albums each in the top 7!!!

That’s absolutely crazy!!!

But I think it’s all well-deserved! Those three artists all made incredible conceptual and innovative albums!

 

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New music list

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

How do you narrow an entire decade of genre-breaking music down to a list of 100 albums? It's an impossible task, but we did it.

www.vice.com

 

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New comics list

The best comics of the decade

A panel-by-panel view of the 2010s

www.polygon.com

 

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Music videos

The 20 Best Music Videos Of The 2010s

A look back at the most memorable clips from an era in which the video's role changed, but became surprisingly more prominent.

www.stereogum.com

 

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Polygon staff picks best movies

The best movies of the decade, according to us

The Polygon staff submits its own favorites, and invites you to do the same

www.polygon.com

 

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Best songs

The 200 Best Songs Of The 2010s

These are the songs that have stayed with us through the last 10 years and will stick with us long after the decade is over.

www.stereogum.com

 

[bettim84]

I love lists. If you see a best of the 2010's list Please post a link here. I will try to keep an ongoing list going at the top of the thread.

I love lists, but would you mind editing out the apostrophe (at least in the thread title)?

 

[Teeeee]

I love lists also. There is some "mega master list" out there somewhere that takes all of these lists and compiles them together to tell us the ultra best of. It will be interesting to see what that mega master list shows us about the decade.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I love lists, but would you mind editing out the apostrophe (at least in the thread title)?

Sure, why?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I love lists also. There is some "mega master list" out there somewhere that takes all of these lists and compiles them together to tell us the ultra best of. It will be interesting to see what that mega master list shows us about the decade.

God i love list season so much!

The website AOTY is doing an aggregate of the best album of the dedcade list if youre interested in seeing that

2010s Music Decade List Aggregate

www.albumoftheyear.org

I think this AOTY aggregator that @Fleetwood-Matt posted is what you are looking for.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

New music list

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

How do you narrow an entire decade of genre-breaking music down to a list of 100 albums? It's an impossible task, but we did it.

www.vice.com

This Vice list is quite unique. I don’t agree with most of it as far as order but it’s nice to see some variance I suppose.

 

[Teeeee]

I think this AOTY aggregator that @Fleetwood-Matt posted is what you are looking for.

Perhaps? I honestly haven't looked for the aggregator list. But I'm going to trust that Matt found it.

This Vice list is quite unique. I don’t agree with most of it as far as order but it’s nice to see some variance I suppose.

My first thought when reading it was that this was the contrarian list.