The lists of the "best of everything" from the 2010s

A decade has come to an end, and with it come the summaries of the decade's best… Well, best of everything! For the sake of simplicity, we have summarized the summaries so you don't have to navigate the jungle of lists yourself.

On the music front, unsurprisingly, you'll find the most lists. Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best songs of the 2010s made waves in Sweden as Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" took the top spot, but Pitchfork was also out early with its list of the 200 best songs. Complex has ranked the decade's best rappers, and Fredrik Strage has conveniently gathered his 100 best songs of the 2010s in a Spotify playlist. Noisey summarizes the decade as a time when "black protest music went mainstream".

For movies and TV series, you can turn to The New York Times, which lists the 10 most influential movies of the 2010s, or to DN, whose film critics list the 25 best movies. Vanity Fair’s list of the decade’s best TV shows includes 10 ranked entries – IndieWire’s includes 50. For younger audiences, Teen Vogue has listed the 10 best teen TV shows of the past 10 years.

Fashion is naturally covered by Vogue, which has listed 17 garments and accessories that defined the 2010s. Buzzfeed instead focuses on 21 fashion trends they hope we leave behind as we enter a new decade. And let’s not forget: the lists featuring a mix of everything! The Guardian nominates 10 Instagram posts that came to define the past decade, The New York Times remembers the 2010s in 33 different ways (including "duck face", algorithms, and the true crime genre), and Bored Panda lists 35 trends, from the Ice Bucket Challenge to Segways, that we will associate with the 2010s.

Happy reading!