The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2010. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
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First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2010 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Kesha Animal Electropop, dance-pop RCA, Sony Music January4 Lana Del Rey Lana Del Ray Alternative pop 5 Points January5 The Dear & Departed Chapters Equal Vision Kanye West VH1 Storytellers Hip-hop Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam Katharine McPhee Unbroken Pop Verve Forecast January11 Adam Green Minor Love Anti-folk, garage rock Rough Trade Delphic Acolyte Alternative dance Polydor, Dangerbird, Modular Heidi Montag Superficial Electropop, dance-pop Pratt Productions, Warner Vampire Weekend Contra Indie pop, worldbeat XL You Me at Six Hold Me Down Alternative rock, pop-punk Virgin January12 The Bouncing Souls Ghosts on the Boardwalk Punk rock Chunksaah OK Go Of the Blue Colour of the Sky Alternative rock, power pop Capitol, EMI Owen Pallett Heartland Baroque pop Domino Ringo Starr Y Not Rock Hip-O, UMe Woodpigeon Die Stadt Muzikanten Indie folk Boompa, End of the Road January13 Lostprophets The Betrayed Alternative metal, alternative rock Visible Noise January15 Spoon Transference Indie rock Merge January18 These New Puritans Hidden Art rock Angular, Domino January19 Eels End Times Indie rock Vagrant, E Works Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life Emo, pop-punk Columbia RJD2 The Colossus Hip-hop, electronica, alternative rock RJ's Electrical Connections Surfer Blood Astro Coast Indie rock Kanine Various artists Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack New West January20 Alexandros Where's My Potato? Alternative rock, indie rock, punk RX-Records Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea Soul, R&B, pop rock Virgin Joel Alme Waiting for the Bells Razzia January22 Suicide Commando Implements of Hell Industrial metal Metropolis January25 Four Tet There Is Love in You Folktronica Domino Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit Post-rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion Ninja Tune Tindersticks Falling Down a Mountain Chamber pop 4AD, Constellation January26 Alesana The Emptiness Post-hardcore Fearless Barry Manilow The Greatest Love Songs of All Time Pop Arista Basia Bulat Heart of My Own Folk Secret City Beach House Teen Dream Dream pop Sub Pop, Bella Union Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring Indie rock Wichita, Arts & Crafts Day of Fire Losing All Post-grunge Razor & Tie Fozzy Chasing the Grail Heavy metal Riot! Lady Antebellum Need You Now Country Capitol Nashville Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order Groove metal, metalcore Solid State Locksley Be in Love Feature Records The Magnetic Fields Realism Indie rock Nonesuch Never Shout Never What Is Love? Loveway Records, Sire, Warner Bros. Nocando Jimmy the Lock Hip-hop Alpha Pup Number One Gun To the Secrets and Knowledge Christian rock Tooth & Nail Patty Griffin Downtown Church Gospel Credential Strong Arm Steady In Search of Stoney Jackson Hip-hop Stones Throw The Wonder Years The Upsides Pop-punk No Sleep Woodhands Remorsecapade Paper Bag January28 Hot Chip One Life Stand Alternative dance, synth-pop, indietronica Parlophone Various artists WWE The Music: A New Day, Vol. 10 Rock, pop, dance WWE Music Group January29 Groove Armada Black Light Dance-pop, electropop, electronic Cooking Vinyl Overkill Ironbound Thrash metal eOne Music, Nuclear Blast
February + List of albums released in February 2010 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February1 Apparatjik We Are Here Alternative rock Meta Merge Un BT These Hopeful Machines Electronica Black Hole Kashmir Trespassers Columbia, Sony Music The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock Tomorrow, in a Year Rabid Midlake The Courage of Others Folk rock Bella Union February2 Butch Walker I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart Alternative rock, pop rock One Haven Music Disco Biscuits Planet Anthem Dommin Love Is Gone Gothic rock Roadrunner Lil Wayne Rebirth Rap rock Young Money, Cash Money, Universal Motown Nick Jonas & the Administration Who I Am Blues rock, R&B, blue-eyed soul Hollywood Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Industrial metal, alternative metal Roadrunner The Soft Pack The Soft Pack Indie rock Kemado Statik Selektah 100 Proof: The Hangover Hip-hop ShowOff Records, Brick Records Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis Deathcore, technical death metal Prosthetic February5 Fear Factory Mechanize Industrial metal Candlelight, AFM Fionn Regan The Shadow of an Empire Folk Heavenly, Universal Music Ireland Rage Strings to a Web Power metal, heavy metal, symphonic metal Nuclear Blast Sade Soldier of Love Pop-soul Epic TobyMac Tonight Christian rock, pop, rap rock ForeFront February8 Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here Blues, electronica, post-industrial XL HIM Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice Alternative rock Sire Massive Attack Heligoland Electronica Virgin Ov Hell The Underworld Regime Black metal Indie Recordings, Prosthetic Yeasayer Odd Blood Experimental rock Secretly Canadian February9 Arsis Starve for the Devil Melodic death metal, technical death metal Nuclear Blast DJ Kay Slay More Than Just a DJ Hip-hop eOne Fair Disappearing World Tooth & Nail Fireflight For Those Who Wait Christian rock Flicker Jaheim Another Round Atlantic Josh Turner Haywire Country MCA Nashville Look What I Did Atlas Drugged Post-hardcore, progressive rock, pop-punk Modernist Movement Recordings Phantogram Eyelid Movies Barsuk February12 Angels & Airwaves Love Alternative rock To the Stars February15 Field Music Field Music (Measure) Indie rock Memphis Industries Lightspeed Champion Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You Folk Domino Marina and the Diamonds The Family Jewels Alternative pop 679, Atlantic Pet Shop Boys Pandemonium Synth-pop Parlophone February16 Carnifex Hell Chose Me Deathcore, death metal Victory Chelsea Grin Desolation of Eden Deathcore Artery, Razor & Tie Juliana Hatfield Peace and Love Indie rock Ye Olde Records The Souljazz Orchestra Rising Sun Strut Story of the Year The Constant Pop-punk, post-hardcore Epitaph February17 Finntroll Nifelvind Folk metal, black metal Century Media Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History Indie rock Kitsuné February19 Eluveitie Everything Remains (As It Never Was) Folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal Nuclear Blast February22 Autechre Oversteps IDM Warp The Courteeners Falcon Indie rock A&M Elephant9 Walk the Nile Rune Grammofon February23 Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté Ali and Toumani African blues World Circuit Alkaline Trio This Addiction Punk rock Epitaph The Brian Jonestown Massacre Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? Neo-psychedelia, electronic A Records Electric President The Violent Blue Electronic Fake Four Inc. Holly Miranda The Magician's Private Library Indie rock XL Joanna Newsom Have One on Me Indie folk Drag City Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave Americana American Recordings, Lost Highway Newworldson Newworldson Contemporary Christian music Inpop Quasi American Gong Indie rock Kill Rock Stars The Rocket Summer Of Men and Angels Pop rock Island Def Jam Shearwater The Golden Archipelago Indie rock Matador Shout Out Louds Work Indie rock Merge Starfield The Saving One Contemporary Christian music Sparrow Zeus Say Us Alternative, indie Arts & Crafts February24 Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void Heavy metal Century Media February26 Jason Derulo Jason Derulo Rock, R&B Beluga Heights, Warner Bros.
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