I collected more than 24 lists of “Best Music of 2010” and combined them to make one meta-list. Here are all the recordings on at least three of the lists. The numbers in bold and underlined indicate the number of lists that the recording was on. The asterisk indicates that I own it.
On 24 Lists
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*
On 18 Lists
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs *
On 17 Lists
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening*
On 14 Lists
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest*
Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid*
The National – High Violet *
On 13 Lists
Vampire Weekend – Contra
On 12 Lists
The Black Keys – Brothers
On 11 Lists
Beach House – Teen Dream*
The Roots – How I Got Over
Sleigh Bells – Treats
On 10 Lists
The Walkmen – Lisbon*
On 9 Lists
Robyn – Body Talk
Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz*
Yeasayer – Odd Blood *
On 8 Lists
Caribou – Swim
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
Jamey Johnson – The Guitar Song*
Spoon – Transference *
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding *
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
On 7 Lists
Best Coast – Crazy For You*
Cee Lo Green – The Lady Killer
Jónsi – Go
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
On 6 Lists
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma *
Grinderman – Grinderman 2
On 5 Lists
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today*
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way*
Jason Moran – Ten*
Robert Plant – Band of Joy
Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone
Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
Warpaint – The Fool
Wavves – King Of The Beach
On 4 Lists
Dessa – A Badly Broken Code
Drake – Thank Me Later
Eminem – Recovery
Four Tet – There Is Love In You
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
Glasser – Ring
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can*
MGMT – Congratulations
Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away
Matthew Shipp – 4D
Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky*
Twin Shadow – Forget
Sharon Van Etten – Epic
Neil Young –Le Noise
On 3 Lists
King Sunny Adé – Bábá mo Túndé*
Afrocubism – Afrocubism*
Baths – Cerulean
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Call Me Lightning – When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues*
The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter*
Foals – Total Life Forever
Gayngs – Relayted
The Goodnight Loving – The Goodnight Loving Supper Club
Mary Halvorson Quintet – Saturn Sings*
The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever
M.I.A. – Maya *
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
No Age – Everything In Between
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Panico – Kick
Marc Ribot – Silent Movies
Szymanowski – Symphony No. 3 (“Song of the Night”)/ Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vienna Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez; Christian Tetzlaff)
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