| 1 | 2010 | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Kanye West | Album | 4.5 | 16 |
| 2 | 2016 | Lemonade | Beyoncé | Album | 4.1 | 12 |
| 3 | 2015 | To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.7 | 10 |
| 4 | 2014 | 1989 | Taylor Swift | Album | 4.2 | 76 |
| 5 | 2016 | A Seat at the Table | Solange | Album | 5 | 4 |
| 6 | 2010 | Body Talk | Robyn | Album | | 7 |
| 7 | 2014 | LP1 | FKA twigs | Album | 3.75 | 7 |
| 8 | 2011 | Strange Mercy | St. Vincent | Album | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | 2014 | Burn Your Fire for No Witness | Angel Olsen | Album | 5 | 5 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 2017 | DAMN. | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.15 | 12 |
| 12 | 2012 | Visions | Grimes | Album | 4.35 | 22 |
| 13 | 2010 | Teen Dream | Beach House | Album | 3.5 | 7 |
| 14 | 2011 | XXX | Danny Brown | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 15 | 2015 | Carrie & Lowell | Sufjan Stevens | Album | 4.75 | 7 |
| 16 | 2011 | Black Up | Shabazz Palaces | Album | 3.9 | 4 |
| 17 | 2016 | ★ | David Bowie | Album | 4.45 | 16 |
| 18 | 2015 | DS2 | Future | Album | 4 | 8 |
| 19 | 2013 | Sunbather | Deafheaven | Album | 3.65 | 4 |
| 20 | 2016 | Blonde | Frank Ocean | Album | 4.65 | 5 |
| 21 | 2012 | Lonerism | Tame Impala | Album | 3.7 | 11 |
| 22 | 2013 | Overgrown | James Blake | Album | 4 | 7 |
| 23 | 2012 | Get Disowned | Hop Along | Album | 3.35 | 4 |
| 24 | 2016 | Puberty 2 | Mitski | Album | 5 | 10 |
| 25 | 2013 | Acid Rap | Chance the Rapper | Album + Mixtape/Street | 2.25 | 5 |
| 26 | 2018 | Singularity | Jon Hopkins | Album | 4 | 5 |
| 27 | 2018 | Golden Hour | Kacey Musgraves | Album | 3 | 10 |
| 28 | 2017 | Ctrl | SZA | Album | | 7 |
| 29 | 2010 | The Monitor | Titus Andronicus | Album | | 4 |
| 30 | 2010 | The ArchAndroid | Janelle Monáe | Album | 3.85 | 6 |
| 31 | 2015 | In Colour | Jamie xx | Album | 4.25 | 7 |
| 32 | 2015 | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Courtney Barnett | Album | 4 | 12 |
| 33 | 2010 | Cosmogramma | Flying Lotus | Album | 4.2 | 6 |
| 34 | 2012 | Tramp | Sharon Van Etten | Album | 3 | 4 |
| 35 | 2019 | Bandana | Freddie Gibbs & Madlib | Album | 4 | 7 |
| 36 | 2012 | All We Love We Leave Behind | Converge | Album | 5 | 18 |
| 37 | 2019 | Titanic Rising | Weyes Blood | Album | 4.25 | 6 |
| 38 | 2011 | Take Care | Drake | Album | 3.65 | 6 |
| 39 | 2012 | Light Up Gold | Parquet Courts | Album | 5 | 3 |
| 40 | 2010 | The Suburbs | Arcade Fire | Album | 4.15 | 23 |
| 41 | 2016 | Coloring Book | Chance the Rapper | Album + Mixtape/Street | 3.5 | 2 |
| 42 | 2013 | Modern Vampires of the City | Vampire Weekend | Album | 4.35 | 7 |
| 43 | 2012 | Kentucky | Panopticon | Album | | 6 |
| 44 | 2018 | Isolation | Kali Uchis | Album | 3 | 4 |
| 45 | 2017 | After Laughter | Paramore | Album | 4.05 | 5 |
| 46 | 2010 | There Is Love in You | Four Tet | Album | 3.4 | 6 |
| 47 | 2012 | dripping | PILE | Album | | 2 |
| 48 | 2016 | ANTI | Rihanna | Album | 4.4 | 20 |
| 49 | 2014 | Sylvan Esso | Sylvan Esso | Album | 5 | 7 |
| 50 | 2010 | Have One on Me | Joanna Newsom | Album | 4.5 | 4 |
