| 1 | 2016 | Blonde | Frank Ocean | Album | 4.25 | 5 |
| 2 | 2010 | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Kanye West | Album | 4.25 | 18 |
| 3 | 2013 | BEYONCÉ | Beyoncé | Album | 3.8 | 28 |
| 4 | 2015 | To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.6 | 13 |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 2016 | A Seat at the Table | Solange | Album | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | 2013 | Modern Vampires of the City | Vampire Weekend | Album | 4.35 | 8 |
| 8 | 2010 | Body Talk | Robyn | Album | | 14 |
| 9 | 2014 | Black Messiah | D’Angelo and The Vanguard | Album | 2.5 | 6 |
| 10 | 2012 | channel ORANGE | Frank Ocean | Album | 3.8 | 11 |
| 11 | 2015 | Art Angels | Grimes | Album | 4.55 | 10 |
| 12 | 2016 | ANTI | Rihanna | Album | 4.55 | 22 |
| 13 | 2011 | Take Care | Drake | Album | 4.2 | 11 |
| 14 | 2017 | Melodrama | Lorde | Album | 4.25 | 12 |
| 15 | 2013 | Yeezus | Kanye West | Album | 3.7 | 9 |
| 16 | 2010 | Have One on Me | Joanna Newsom | Album | 4.65 | 5 |
| 17 | 2015 | Carrie & Lowell | Sufjan Stevens | Album | 4.5 | 7 |
| 18 | 2012 | good kid, m.A.A.d city | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.45 | 31 |
| 19 | 2019 | Norman Fucking Rockwell! | Lana Del Rey | Album | 4.4 | 40 |
| 20 | 2013 | Double Cup | DJ Rashad | Album | | 4 |
| 21 | 2010 | Teen Dream | Beach House | Album | 3.65 | 7 |
| 22 | 2011 | Kaputt | Destroyer | Album | 4 | 6 |
| 23 | 2018 | Golden Hour | Kacey Musgraves | Album | 3 | 12 |
| 24 | 2017 | Ctrl | SZA | Album | 4 | 8 |
| 25 | 2015 | In Colour | Jamie xx | Album | 4.25 | 9 |
| 26 | 2014 | Burn Your Fire for No Witness | Angel Olsen | Album | 5 | 5 |
| 27 | 2018 | Some Rap Songs | Earl Sweatshirt | Album | 3.85 | 3 |
| 28 | 2014 | LP1 | FKA twigs | Album | 3.9 | 7 |
| 29 | 2010 | Halcyon Digest | Deerhunter | Album | 4.35 | 8 |
| 30 | 2016 | Puberty 2 | Mitski | Album | 5 | 11 |
| 31 | 2011 | 4 | Beyoncé | Album | 3.85 | 21 |
| 32 | 2011 | Bon Iver, Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Album | 4.15 | 14 |
| 33 | 2019 | U.F.O.F. | Big Thief | Album | 4.25 | 6 |
| 34 | 2015 | Summertime ’06 | Vince Staples | Album | 3 | 5 |
| 35 | 2013 | Cupid Deluxe | Blood Orange | Album | 4.5 | 2 |
| 36 | 2018 | EL MAL QUERER | ROSALÍA | Album | 3.9 | 3 |
| 37 | 2016 | ★ | David Bowie | Album | 4.35 | 15 |
| 38 | 2018 | Whack World | Tierra Whack | Album | 4.25 | 5 |
| 39 | 2011 | Apocalypse | Bill Callahan | Album | 3.65 | 4 |
| 40 | 2017 | Pop 2 | Charli XCX | Album + Mixtape/Street | 4.5 | 5 |
| 41 | 2016 | Lemonade | Beyoncé | Album | 3.85 | 22 |
| 42 | 2009 | New Amerykah, Part Two (Return of the Ankh) | Erykah Badu | Album | 3.5 | 5 |
| 43 | 2013 | Night Time, My Time | Sky Ferreira | Album | 4.5 | 10 |
| 44 | 2016 | We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | A Tribe Called Quest | Album | 4 | 8 |
| 45 | 2017 | A Crow Looked at Me | Mount Eerie | Album | 4 | 4 |
| 46 | 2013 | Shaking the Habitual | The Kniфe | Album | | 14 |
| 47 | 2015 | E•MO•TION | Carly Rae Jepsen | Album | 4.4 | 22 |
| 48 | 2016 | HOPELESSNESS | ANOHNI | Album | 3.75 | 7 |
| 49 | 2011 | Replica | Oneohtrix Point Never | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 50 | 2012 | Visions | Grimes | Album | 4.3 | 22 |
| 51 | 2018 | Knock Knock | DJ Koze | Album | 3.25 | 4 |
| 52 | 2010 | This Is Happening | LCD Soundsystem | Album | 4.65 | 17 |
| 53 | 2017 | Black Origami | Jlin | Album | 2.5 | 4 |
| 54 | 2015 | Barter 6 | Young Thug | Album + Mixtape/Street | 3.65 | 2 |
| 55 | 2011 | Strange Mercy | St. Vincent | Album | 5 | 6 |
| 56 | 2015 | Vulnicura | Björk | Album | 3.85 | 9 |
| 57 | 2017 | DAMN. | Kendrick Lamar | Album | 4.25 | 16 |
| 58 | 2015 | The Epic | Kamasi Washington | Album | 4.35 | 8 |
| 59 | 2012 | Red | Taylor Swift | Album | 4.3 | 82 |
| 60 | 2017 | The Ooz | King Krule | Album | | 4 |
| 61 | 2017 | Arca | Arca | Album | 4 | 6 |
| 62 | 2014 | Ruins | Grouper | Album | 2.5 | 3 |
| 63 | 2011 | XXX | Danny Brown | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 64 | 2018 | Be the Cowboy | Mitski | Album | 4 | 10 |
| 65 | 2015 | DS2 | Future | Album | 3.35 | 9 |
| 66 | 2017 | Plunge | Fever Ray | Album | 4 | 7 |
| 67 | 2015 | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Courtney Barnett | Album | 4.5 | 13 |
| 68 | 2010 | Cosmogramma | Flying Lotus | Album | 4 | 5 |
| 69 | 2015 | If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late | Drake | Album + Mixtape/Street | 2.5 | 7 |
| 70 | 2017 | No Shape | Perfume Genius | Album | 3.5 | 3 |
| 71 | 2018 | Honey | Robyn | Album | | 22 |
| 72 | 2015 | I Love You, Honeybear | Father John Misty | Album | 4.5 | 8 |
| 73 | 2018 | Invasion of Privacy | Cardi B | Album | 4.1 | 13 |
| 74 | 2018 | OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN‐INSIDES | SOPHIE | Album | 4 | 2 |
| 75 | 2011 | House of Balloons | The Weeknd | Album + Mixtape/Street | 4.65 | 10 |
| 76 | 2010 | The Suburbs | Arcade Fire | Album | 3.95 | 29 |
| 77 | 2010 | There Is Love in You | Four Tet | Album | 3.4 | 6 |
| 78 | 2011 | Smoke Ring for My Halo | Kurt Vile | Album | 5 | 6 |
| 79 | 2015 | Currents | Tame Impala | Album | 3.9 | 14 |
| 80 | 2014 | Syro | Aphex Twin | Album | 4.15 | 8 |
| 81 | 2019 | When I Get Home | Solange | Album | 3.75 | 2 |
| 82 | 2011 | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | Girls | Album | 3.75 | 10 |
| 83 | 2013 | Rival Dealer | Burial | EP | 4 | 5 |
| 84 | 2013 | Acid Rap | Chance the Rapper | Album + Mixtape/Street | 3.15 | 9 |
| 85 | 2015 | On Your Own Love Again | Jessica Pratt | Album | | 4 |
| 86 | 2013 | Days Are Gone | HAIM | Album | 4.5 | 18 |
| 87 | 2015 | SremmLife | Rae Sremmurd | Album | | 2 |
| 88 | 2015 | Apocalypse, girl | Jenny Hval | Album | | 4 |
| 89 | 2014 | Our Love | Caribou | Album | 4 | 10 |
| 90 | 2014 | Never Hungover Again | Joyce Manor | Album | 2.5 | 5 |
| 91 | 2016 | 22, a Million | Bon Iver | Album | 3.5 | 7 |
| 92 | 2011 | Watch the Throne | Jay‐Z & Kanye West | Album | 3.35 | 18 |
| 93 | 2018 | Devotion | Tirzah | Album | 3.5 | 4 |
| 94 | 2010 | Contra | Vampire Weekend | Album | 4.3 | 11 |
| 95 | 2013 | Leak 04–13 (Bait Ones) | Jai Paul | Album + Demo | 4 | 2 |
| 96 | 2018 | Double Negative | Low | Album | 3 | 6 |
| 97 | 2014 | Lost in the Dream | The War on Drugs | Album | 4.35 | 3 |
| 98 | 2014 | It’s Album Time | Todd Terje | Album | 4.75 | 3 |
| 99 | 2018 | X 100PRE | Bad Bunny | Album | 3.75 | 2 |
| 100 | 2018 | Sweetener | Ariana Grande | Album | 3.85 | 22 |
