what was the best year for music in the 2010s

So I pulled up the Top 25 "Best of the Decade" Albums & Tracks lists I made at the end of 2019 -- gave each Top 10 appearance a score of 2 and each "next 15" appearance a score of 1. Here's how the combined scores hashed out:

2010: 6
2011: 8
2012: 6
2013: 11 (7/11 from Albums)
2014: 9
2015: 7
2016: 14 (11/14 from Tracks)
2017: 4
2018: 5
2019: 0

Interestingly my top 2 albums were both released in 2010 and my top 2 tracks were both released in 2011.

A bit odd that the first Stsra Rzeka album gets so many mentions since it was basically the 2nd SR album + To Pimp a Butterfly that caused me to vote for 2015

does everyone actually remember what year stuff came out or do you look it up? cuz honestly I could not tell you if something came out in 2014 or 2016

lousy smarch albums

I look it up unless it's one of my GOATs.

xp

I have no idea when most things came out

Mine was 2011 because of this astounding run:

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
Hallock Hill - The Union
Blues Control & Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8
Petrels - Haeligewielle
Rob St. John - Weald
Roly Porter - Aftertime
Dean McPhee - Son of the Black Peace
Destroyer - Kaputt
Meg Baird - Seasons on Earth

Yikes.

I can definitely reel off release dates for albums released before I was born much easier than I can the 2010s.

2013