Top 10 Albums Year by Year (2007-2025)

Dave’s Music Database: Top 10 Albums Year by Year (2007-2025)

These are the top 10 albums for each year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, awards, and aggregates from year-end lists and charts. You can also click on the “decade” buttons to see the top 100 songs for each decade. I’m in the process of developing this into a book. Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here. Click on a button below to go straight to that decade.

2025 Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl Morgan Wallen I’m the Problem Bad Bunny Debí Tirar Más Fotos Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend Lady Gaga Mayhem The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow Various Artists K-pop Demon Hunters Olivia Dean The Art of Loving Playboi Carti Music Justin Bieber Swag 2024 Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department Sabrina Carpenter Short N’ Sweet Kendrick Lamar GNX Charli XCX Brat Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia Zach Bryan Great American Bar Scene Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well The Cure Songs of a Lost World 2023 Morgan Wallen One Thing at a Time Olivia Rodrigo Guts Zach Bryan Zach Bryan Boygenius The Record The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Chris Stapleton Higher Drake For All the Dogs Metallica 72 Seasons Travis Scott Utopia Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Weathervanes 2022 Taylor Swift Midnights SZA SOS Harry Styles Harry’s House Beyoncé Renaissance Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti Noah Kahan Stick Season Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Zach Bryan American Heartbreak The Weeknd Dawn FM Wet Leg Wet Leg 2021 Olivia Rodrigo Sour Adele 30 Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever Lil Nas X Montero Drake Certified Lover Boy Tyler, the Creator Call Me if You Get Lost Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed Doja Cat Planet Her 2020 Taylor Swift Folklore Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters Bruce Springsteen Letter to You The Weeknd After Hours Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Taylor Swift Evermore Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 4 (RTJ4) Dixie Chicks Gaslighter

2019 Bilie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Ariana Grande Thank U, Next Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Vampire Weekend Father of the Bride Taylor Swift Lover Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Ghosteen Solange When I Get Home Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding Tyler, the Creator Igor 2018 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour Drake Scorpion Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer Cardi B Invasion of Privacy Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born soundtrack Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentleys Travis Scott Astroworld Robyn Honey The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships Pusha T Daytona 2017 Kendrick Lamar Damn. Ed Sheeran ÷ (Divide) Lorde Melodrama The Greatest Showman soundtrack Taylor Swift Reputation Jay-Z 4:44 SZA CTRL Luke Combs This One’s for You Beck Colors LCD Soundsystem American Dream 2016 Beyoncé Lemonade David Bowie Blackstar Drake Views Frank Ocean Blond Rihanna Anti Solange A Seat at the Table Sturgill Simpson A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Bruno Mars 24K Magic Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree 2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly Adele 25 Chris Stapleton Traveller Lin-Manuel Miranda (composer) Hamilton cast album The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Tame Impala Currents Drake If You’re Reading This, You’re Too Late Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit Justin Bieber Purpose 2014 Taylor Swift 1989 D’Angelo & the Vanguard Black Messiah Ed Sheeran X (Multiply) Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream U2 Songs of Innocence Beck Morning Phase St. Vincent St. Vincent Miranda Lambert Platinum Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 2013 Beyoncé Beyoncé Frozen soundtrack Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer, Different Park Kanye West Yeezus Daft Punk Random Access Memories Arctic Monkeys AM Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience Lorde Pure Heroine Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 2012 Frank Ocean Channel Orange Kendrick Lamar Good Kid m.A.A.d. City Taylor Swift Red Mumford & Sons Babel Lana Del Rey Born to Die Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox Imagine Dragons Night Visions Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball Jack White Blunderbuss 2011 Adele 21 Drake Take Care PJ Harvey Let England Shake Lady Gaga Born This Way Michael Bublé Christmas Bon Iver Bon Iver Jason Aldean My Kinda Party Florence + the Machine Ceremonials St. Vincent Strange Mercy Jay-Z & Kanye West Watch the Throne 2010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Arcade Fire The Suburbs Eminem Recovery Katy Perry Teenage Dream Taylor Swift Speak Now Bruno Mars Doo Wops & Hooligans Lady Antebellum Need You Now Janelle Monáe The Arch Android The National High Violet The Black Keys Brothers

2009 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) Mumford & Sons Sigh No More U2 No Line on the Horizon Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream The XX XX Michael Bublé Crazy Love Eminem Relapse Maxwell Black Summer’s Night Miranda Lambert Revolution 2008 Taylor Swift Fearless Lady Gaga The Fame Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Kings of Leon Only by the Night Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Portishead Third Lil Wayne Tha Carter III Beyoncé I Am…Sasha Fierce 2007 Radiohead In Rainbows LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad Bruce Springsteen Magic Kanye West Graduation High School Musical 2 (TV soundtrack) M.I.A. Kala Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Alicia Keys As I Am Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: Top Songs and Albums by Year lists Dave’s Music Database: Songs of the Decade lists First posted 2/4/2026.