NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2010
The NME Album of the Year and Single Of The Year were announced on 30 November 2010. It was the 37th countdown of the most popular albums and tracks of the year, as chosen by music reviewers and independent journalists who work for the magazine and for NME.com.
Albums
Note: UK artists |
- Bold: Album contains Song of the Year
# |
Album |
Artist |
Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Hidden |
These New Puritans |
|
2 |
The Suburbs |
Arcade Fire |
|
3 |
Teen Dream |
Beach House |
|
4 |
This Is Happening |
LCD Soundsystem |
|
5 |
I Speak Because I Can |
Laura Marling |
|
6 |
Total Life Forever |
Foals |
|
7 |
Stridulum II |
Zola Jesus |
|
8 |
King Night |
Salem |
|
9 |
Sisterworld |
Liars |
|
10 |
The Drums |
The Drums |
|
11 |
High Violet |
The National |
|
12 |
Swim |
Caribou |
|
13 |
Relayted |
Gayngs |
|
14 |
Your Future Our Clutter |
The Fall |
|
15 |
Odd Blood |
Yeasayer |
|
16 |
Grinderman 2 |
Grinderman |
/ |
17 |
Untitled EP |
Factory Floor |
|
18 |
The Fool |
Warpaint |
|
19 |
Congratulations |
MGMT |
|
20 |
Halcyon Digest |
Deerhunter |
|
21 |
The ArchAndroid |
Janelle Monáe |
|
22 |
My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky |
Swans |
|
23 |
Before Today |
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti |
|
24 |
Contra |
Vampire Weekend |
|
25 |
Avi Buffalo |
Avi Buffalo |
|
26 |
Root for Ruin |
Les Savy Fav |
|
27 |
Crazy for You |
Best Coast |
|
28 |
The Optimist |
New Young Pony Club |
|
29 |
Everything in Between |
No Age |
|
30 |
Surfing the Void |
Klaxons |
|
31 |
Crystal Castles (II) |
Crystal Castles |
|
32 |
Wimmy |
Islet |
|
33 |
The Family Jewels |
Marina and the Diamonds |
|
34 |
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
Kanye West |
|
35 |
Ring |
Glasser |
|
36 |
Happiness |
Hurts |
|
37 |
Nerve Up |
Lonelady |
|
38 |
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty |
Big Boi |
|
39 |
Magnetic Man |
Magnetic Man |
|
40 |
Treats |
Sleigh Bells |
|
41 |
Boys Outside |
Steve Mason |
|
42 |
Serotonin |
Mystery Jets |
|
43 |
Man Alive |
Everything Everything |
|
44 |
Postcards from a Young Man |
Manic Street Preachers |
|
45 |
There Is Love in You |
Four Tet |
|
46 |
Wake Up the Nation |
Paul Weller |
|
47 |
''Pulled Apart by Horses |
Pulled Apart by Horses |
|
48 |
Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
My Chemical Romance |
|
49 |
Astro Coast |
Surfer Blood |
|
50 |
The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
Frightened Rabbit |
Countries represented
= 26
= 21
= 3
= 1
Singles
Note: UK artists |
# |
Track |
Artist |
Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
"Spanish Sahara" |
Foals |
|
2 |
"XXXO" |
M.I.A. |
|
3 |
"Tightrope" |
Janelle Monáe |
|
4 |
"Power" |
Kanye West |
|
5 |
"We Used to Wait" |
Arcade Fire |
|
6 |
"Stylo" |
Gorillaz featuring Bobby Womack & Mos Def |
/ |
7 |
"Swim" |
Surfer Blood |
|
8 |
"Heathen Child" |
Grinderman |
/ |
9 |
"Night" |
Zola Jesus |
|
10 |
"Bury" |
The Fall |
|
11 |
"Born Free" |
M.I.A. |
|
12 |
"Lying" |
Factory Floor |
|
13 |
"Drunk Girls" |
LCD Soundsystem |
|
14 |
"We Want War" |
These New Puritans |
|
15 |
"Undertow" |
Warpaint |
|
16 |
"Boyfriend" |
Best Coast |
|
17 |
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" |
The National |
|
18 |
"Rad Pitt" |
Egyptian Hip Hop |
|
19 |
"Celestica" |
Crystal Castles |
|
20 |
"Acapella" |
Kelis |
|
21 |
"What's In It For?" |
Avi Buffalo |
|
22 |
"Ambling Alp" |
Yeasayer |
|
23 |
"I Can Change" |
LCD Soundsystem |
|
24 |
"Schoolin'" |
Everything Everything |
|
25 |
"Telephone" |
Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé |
|
26 |
"Perfect Stranger" |
Magnetic Man featuring Katy B |
|
27 |
"Pass Out" |
Tinie Tempah featuring Labrinth |
|
28 |
"Forever and Ever, Amen" |
The Drums |
|
29 |
"Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" |
My Chemical Romance |
|
30 |
"O.N.E." |
Yeasayer |
|
31 |
"[...] You" |
Cee Lo Green |
|
32 |
"Flashover" |
Klaxons |
|
33 |
"Shutterbugg" |
Big Boi featuring Cutty |
|
34 |
"California Gurls" |
Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg |
|
35 |
"Colouring of Pigeons" |
The Knife |
|
36 |
"Sleepless in Silverlake" |
Les Savy Fav |
|
37 |
"Home" |
Glasser |
|
38 |
"Bang Bang Bang" |
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. featuring Q-Tip & MNDR |
/ |
39 |
"Ready to Start" |
Arcade Fire |
|
40 |
"Tenderoni" |
Kele |
|
41 |
"This Orient" |
Foals |
|
42 |
"Dancing on My Own" |
Robyn |
|
43 |
"Constellations" |
Darwin Deez |
|
44 |
"Bubbles" |
Biffy Clyro |
|
45 |
"Scissor" |
Liars |
|
46 |
"(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" |
Manic Street Preachers |
|
47 |
"Round and Round" |
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti |
|
48 |
"Dreaming of Another World" |
Mystery Jets |
|
49 |
"Sleep Forever" |
Crocodiles |
|
50 |
"Ghost Train" |
Summer Camp |
Artists with multiple entries
2 Entries
- Foals (1, 41)
- M.I.A. (2, 11)
- Arcade Fire (5, 39)
- LCD Soundsystem (13, 23)
- Yeasayer (22, 30)
Countries represented
= 27
= 20
= 3
= 2
= 1