| 1 | 2016 | Lemonade | Beyoncé | Album | 3.8 | 20 |
| 2 | 2015 | To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.5 | 11 |
| 3 | 2010 | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Kanye West | Album | 4.25 | 17 |
| 4 | 2017 | Melodrama | Lorde | Album | 4.05 | 12 |
| 5 | 2013 | Modern Vampires of the City | Vampire Weekend | Album | 4.35 | 7 |
| 6 | 2012 | channel ORANGE | Frank Ocean | Album | 3.95 | 11 |
| 7 | 2010 | Body Talk | Robyn | Album | | 7 |
| 8 | 2012 | good kid, m.A.A.d city | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.4 | 26 |
| 9 | 2011 | Strange Mercy | St. Vincent | Album | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | 2018 | Be the Cowboy | Mitski | Album | 2 | 10 |
| 11 | 2012 | The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do | Fiona Apple | Album | 4 | 11 |
| 12 | 2013 | Yeezus | Kanye West | Album | 3.75 | 8 |
| 13 | 2015 | Currents | Tame Impala | Album | 3.9 | 12 |
| 14 | 2018 | Dirty Computer | Janelle Monáe | Album | 3.65 | 10 |
| 15 | 2019 | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? | Billie Eilish | Album | 4.25 | 53 |
| 16 | 2014 | Lost in the Dream | The War on Drugs | Album | 4.55 | 3 |
| 17 | 2016 | ★ | David Bowie | Album | 4.45 | 17 |
| 18 | 2010 | The Suburbs | Arcade Fire | Single | 4.5 | 4 |
| 19 | 2011 | 21 | Adele | Album | 4.25 | 25 |
| 20 | 2017 | Ctrl | SZA | Album | | 8 |
| 21 | 2010 | High Violet | The National | Album | 4.05 | 17 |
| 22 | 2014 | Transgender Dysphoria Blues | Against Me! | Album | 4.5 | 2 |
| 23 | 2016 | My Woman | Angel Olsen | Album | 3.5 | 3 |
| 24 | 2014 | 1989 | Taylor Swift | Album | 4.2 | 76 |
| 25 | 2017 | DAMN. | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.15 | 12 |
| 26 | 2015 | In Colour | Jamie xx | Album | 4.25 | 7 |
| 27 | 2013 | AM | Arctic Monkeys | Album | 4 | 17 |
| 28 | 2011 | Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming | M83 | Album | 4.15 | 10 |
| 29 | 2016 | A Seat at the Table | Solange | Album | 5 | 4 |
| 30 | 2011 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Album | 4 | 12 |
| 31 | 2010 | This Is Happening | LCD Soundsystem | Album | 4.65 | 15 |
| 32 | 2016 | Skeleton Tree | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Album | 3.85 | 4 |
| 33 | 2015 | Art Angels | Grimes | Album | 4.55 | 10 |
| 34 | 2017 | Big Fish Theory | Vince Staples | Album | 3 | 4 |
| 35 | 2010 | Plastic Beach | Gorillaz | Album | 3.85 | 17 |
| 36 | 2018 | Heaven and Earth | Kamasi Washington | Album | 2.85 | 4 |
| 37 | 2014 | Ultraviolence | Lana Del Rey | Album | 3.7 | 75 |
| 38 | 2013 | Acid Rap | Chance the Rapper | Album + Mixtape/Street | 3.15 | 8 |
| 39 | 2010 | Teen Dream | Beach House | Album | 3.5 | 7 |
| 40 | 2013 | Sunbather | Deafheaven | Album | 3.85 | 6 |
| 41 | 2011 | James Blake | James Blake | Album | 4.4 | 7 |
| 42 | 2015 | Vulnicura | Björk | Album | 3.75 | 9 |
| 43 | 2015 | Carrie & Lowell | Sufjan Stevens | Album | 4.6 | 8 |
| 44 | 2013 | Settle | Disclosure | Album | 3.5 | 12 |
| 45 | 2015 | I Love You, Honeybear | Father John Misty | Album | 4.5 | 7 |
| 46 | 2016 | Malibu | Anderson .Paak | Album | 3 | 4 |
| 47 | 2013 | Random Access Memories | Daft Punk | Album | 3.9 | 24 |
| 48 | 2010 | Cosmogramma | Flying Lotus | Album | 3.85 | 6 |
| 49 | 2019 | Remind Me Tomorrow | Sharon Van Etten | Album | 4 | 2 |
| 50 | 2011 | Watch the Throne | Jay‐Z & Kanye West | Album | 3.4 | 8 |
| 51 | 2019 | LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jamila Woods | Album | | 6 |
| 52 | 2013 | Night Time, My Time | Sky Ferreira | Album | 4.5 | 9 |
| 53 | 2014 | Black Messiah | D’Angelo and The Vanguard | Album | 4 | 6 |
| 54 | 2017 | A Crow Looked at Me | Mount Eerie | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 55 | 2018 | Historian | Lucy Dacus | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 56 | 2016 | Blonde | Frank Ocean | Album | 4.7 | 6 |
| 57 | 2017 | MASSEDUCTION | St. Vincent | Album | 5 | 7 |
| 58 | 2018 | Negro Swan | Blood Orange | Album | 3 | 2 |
| 59 | 2015 | The Most Lamentable Tragedy | Titus Andronicus | Album | | 3 |
| 60 | 2011 | Kill for Love | Chromatics | Single | | 1 |
| 61 | 2010 | Have One on Me | Joanna Newsom | Album | 4.65 | 5 |
| 62 | 2018 | CARE FOR ME | Saba | Album | 3.65 | 1 |
| 63 | 2012 | Sweet Heart Sweet Light | Spiritualized | Album | 4 | 7 |
| 64 | 2019 | All Mirrors | Angel Olsen | Album | 4.35 | 3 |
| 65 | 2012 | Attack on Memory | Cloud Nothings | Album | | 4 |
| 66 | 2016 | Joanne | Lady Gaga | Album | 3.8 | 20 |
| 67 | 2013 | Trouble Will Find Me | The National | Album | 3.85 | 11 |
| 68 | 2016 | We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | A Tribe Called Quest | Album | 3.65 | 7 |
| 69 | 2017 | After Laughter | Paramore | Album | 4.05 | 6 |
| 70 | 2010 | Teenage Dream | Katy Perry | Single | 5 | 2 |
| 71 | 2014 | Run the Jewels 2 | Run the Jewels | Album | 3.25 | 11 |
| 72 | 2013 | m b v | My Bloody Valentine | Album | 3.65 | 5 |
| 73 | 2014 | LP1 | FKA twigs | Album | 4.15 | 7 |
| 74 | 2011 | Take Care | Drake | Album | 4.4 | 9 |
| 75 | 2013 | Days Are Gone | HAIM | Album | 4.75 | 18 |
| 76 | 2015 | No Cities to Love | Sleater‐Kinney | Album | 4.25 | 6 |
| 77 | 2010 | Halcyon Digest | Deerhunter | Album | 4.35 | 7 |
| 78 | 2018 | Room 25 | Noname | Album | 3.5 | 2 |
| 79 | 2011 | Wasting Light | Foo Fighters | Album | | |
| 80 | 2011 | Wasting Light | Foo Fighters | Album | 4.1 | 19 |
| 81 | 2016 | ANTI | Rihanna | Album | 4.4 | 22 |
| 82 | 2012 | Celebration Rock | Japandroids | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 83 | 2018 | Invasion of Privacy | Cardi B | Album | 3.15 | 13 |
| 84 | 2011 | The Golden Age of Apocalypse | Thundercat | Album | | 7 |
| 85 | 2007 | Kacey Musgraves | Kacey Musgraves | Album + Demo | | 1 |
| 86 | 2017 | Hot Thoughts | Spoon | Single | | 2 |
| 87 | 2018 | Chris | Christine and the Queens | Album | | 7 |
| 88 | 2015 | After | Lady Lamb the Beekeeper | Album | | 3 |
| 89 | 2010 | Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son of Chico Dusty | Big Boi | Album | 4.5 | 6 |
| 90 | 2015 | E•MO•TION | Carly Rae Jepsen | Album | 4.25 | 22 |
| 91 | 2015 | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Courtney Barnett | Album | 4.5 | 13 |
| 92 | 2014 | Our Love | Caribou | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 93 | 2018 | iridescence | BROCKHAMPTON | Album | 2.25 | 3 |
| 94 | 2011 | Bad As Me | Tom Waits | Single | | 1 |
| 95 | 2011 | Replica | Oneohtrix Point Never | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 96 | 2016 | 22, a Million | Bon Iver | Album | 3.6 | 7 |
| 97 | 2019 | thank u, next | Ariana Grande | Album | 3.65 | 15 |
| 98 | 2011 | Kaputt | Destroyer | Album | 4 | 6 |
| 99 | 2013 | Silence Yourself | Savages | Album | 4 | 6 |
| 100 | 2011 | Let England Shake | PJ Harvey | Album | 4.25 | 9 |
