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The Greatest Musical Artists Of The 2010s

Updated July 13, 2020 21.5k votes 959 voters 4.0k views110 items

List RulesVote up the artists based only on their music from 2010 to 2019.

From Kanye West and Taylor Swift to Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe, we're ranking the best artists of the decade. This list of the top 2010s artists includes some of the most popular musicians, bands, and singers in pop, rap, country, EDM, rock, R&B, and more. The 2010s decade was filled with so many good songs and albums, but which artists stood out from the rest?

Vote up the best artists of the 2010s, and add your favorites if they deserve to be on this list.

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Kendrick Lamar
Hip hop
Albums: good kid, m.A.A.d city, Section.80, Overly Dedicated, Memories Back Then
To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)

Good Kid, m.A.A.d City (2012)

Section.80 (2011)
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Adele
Pop, R&B
Albums: 21, 19, Make You Feel My Love, Adele Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Cold Shoulder
25 (2015)

21 (2011)
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Rihanna
R&B, Pop
Albums: Loud, Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna 3CD Collector's Set, A Girl like Me, Music of the Sun
Unapologetic (2012)

Talk That Talk (2011)

Loud (2010)
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The Weeknd
Contemporary R&B, Hip hop
Albums: Kiss Land, House of Balloons, Thursday, Echoes of Silence, Trilogy
Starboy (2016)

Beauty Behind the Madness (2015)

Trilogy (2012)
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Frank Ocean
Alternative hip hop, Contemporary R&B
Albums: Channel Orange, nostalgia, ULTRA., unreleased, MISC.
Blonde (2016)

Channel Orange (2012)
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Taylor Swift
Country, Pop
Albums: Fearless, Speak Now, Red, Taylor Swift, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
1989 (2014)

Red (2012)

Speak Now (2010)
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Bruno Mars
Pop, Contemporary R&B
Albums: Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Unorthodox Jukebox, Earth to Mars, It's Better If You Don't Understand, Moonshine
24K Magic (2016)

Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)

Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010)
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Avicii
House, Techno
Albums: Bom, Collide, Avicii et al: Swedish House Collection - Taken from Superstar, Avicii Presents Strictly Miami, True
Tim (2019)

Stories (2015)

True (2013)
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Lady Gaga
Pop, Dance
Albums: The Fame, Born This Way, Just Dance, The Edge of Glory, The Fame Monster
Joanne (2016)

Artpop (2013)

Born This Way (2011)
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Ariana Grande
Pop, Contemporary R&B
Albums: My Everything, Yours Truly, Christmas Kisses, Baby I, Right There
Thank U, Next (2019)

Sweetener (2018)

My Everything (2014)
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Lana Del Rey
Baroque pop, Dream pop
Albums: Born to Die, Paradise, Lana Del Rey, Die for Me, Kill Kill
Honeymoon (2015)

Ultraviolence (2014)

Born to Die (2012)
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Ed Sheeran
Pop, Folk
Albums: x, Plus, No. 5 Collaborations Project, iTunes Festival 2012: Holiday Gift, The Slumdon Bridge
÷ (2017)

× (2014)

+ (2011)
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Coldplay
Alternative Rock, Pop
Albums: A Rush of Blood to the Head, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Parachutes, X&Y, Clocks
Everyday Life (2019)

A Head Full of Dreams (2015)

Mylo Xyloto (2011)

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Eminem
Hip hop
Albums: The Marshall Mathers LP, The Slim Shady LP, The Eminem Show, Infinite, Recovery
Revival (2017)

The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

Recovery (2010)
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Daft Punk
Electro, House
Albums: Discovery, Random Access Memories, Homework, Human After All, TRON: Legacy
Random Access Memories (2013)
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Drake
Hip hop, R&B
Albums: Take Care, Nothing Was the Same, Thank Me Later, Comeback Season, So Far Gone
Scorpion (2018)

Nothing Was the Same (2013)

Take Care (2011)
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Imagine Dragons
Alternative rock, Pop
Albums: Night Visions, Continued Silence EP, Night Visions Live, It's Time, It's Time Remixes
Evolve (2017)

Smoke + Mirrors (2015)

Night Visions (2012)
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Kanye West
Hip hop
Albums: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Late Registration, The College Dropout, Watch the Throne, Graduation
The Life of Pablo (2016)

Yeezus (2013)

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
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Katy Perry
Synthpop, Electronic music
Albums: Teenage Dream, E.T., One of the Boys, Katy Hudson, Ur So Gay
Witness (2017)

Prism (2013)

Teenage Dream (2010)
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Bruce Springsteen
Americana, Blues-rock
Albums: Born to Run, Born in the U.S.A., The Rising, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River
Western Stars (2019)

High Hopes (2014)

Wrecking Ball (2012)
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P!nk
Pop punk, R&B
Albums: M!ssundaztood, I'm Not Dead, Funhouse, Dear Mr. President, Pink: Live in Europe
Hurts 2B Human (2019)

Beautiful Trauma (2017)

The Truth About Love (2012)
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Donald Glover
Alternative hip hop
Albums: Because the Internet, Utterances of the Heart, Love Letter in an Unbreakable Bottle, Culdesac, Sick Boi
"Awaken, My Love!" (2016)

Because the Internet (2013)

Camp (2011)
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Lorde
Indie pop, Electronica
Albums: Pure Heroine, The Love Club EP, Royals / White Noise: Live from the BRITs, Tennis Court EP, Tennis Court
Melodrama (2017)

Pure Heroine (2013)

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Foo Fighters
Alternative rock, Post-grunge
Albums: Wasting Light, The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters, One by One, There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Concrete and Gold (2017)

Sonic Highways (2014)

Wasting Light (2011)
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Alternative Rock, Funk Metal
Albums: Californication, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Stadium Arcadium, Mother's Milk, By the Way
The Getaway (2016)

I'm with You (2011)