Billboard's staff picks the 100 best albums of the 2010s
Our staff chose 100 of the greatest albums from the 2010s 🎶💿
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- billboard (@billboard) November 19, 2019
At the beginning of the 2010s, many predicted the slow death of the album-but at the decade's end, the format still seems absolutely vital, if forever changed. Here are [five of] the Billboard staff's 100 favorite albums from the decade that was.
97. Porter Robinson, Worlds (2014)
As progressive house was starting to sound anything but, over the increasingly homogenized course of the EDM boom, Porter Robinson was one of the few DJs whose music and imagination remained as open as a festival field. Debut full-length LP Worlds was like Daft Punk's Discovery for millennials raised on anime and ProTools-lush and lo-fi, robotic and sentimental, vividly 16-bit.
73. Kesha, Rainbow (2017)
49. David Bowie, Blackstar (2016)
Released on his 69th birthday, just two days before cancer claimed his life, David Bowie knew full well Blackstar would be his swan song... Even so, there's nothing maudlin or nostalgic about this reflective, measured goodbye from one of the greats. And somehow, that makes it even more heartbreaking.
25. ROSALÍA, El Mal Querer (2018)
1. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
From the self-loathing minimalist odyssey of "Runaway" to the martial call-to-arms of "All of the Lights" (stuffed with guest stars ranging from Rihanna to Elton John) to the intoxicating, stomping menace of "Monster" (complete with a ferocious star-making verse from Nicki Minaj) to the breath-stopping bleakness of "Lost In the World," My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the sound of an artist-using the studio as a palette-grappling with his contradictions, unhappiness and the carnal diversions he turns to as an all-too-brief balm for the uncertain soul.
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