Beyoncé's Lemonade tops cultural impact ranking of decade's best pop albums

Key facts

• Beyoncé's Lemonade ranked as the most culturally impactful pop album of the last decade.
• Adele's 25 sold 3.38 million copies in its first week in November 2015, a record that still stands.
• Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next made her the first solo act since the Beatles to hold the top three Billboard Hot 100 spots simultaneously.
• Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia became the unofficial soundtrack of the COVID-19 lockdown.
• Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess reached number one in the U.K. 17 weeks after entering the chart.
• SZA's SOS spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Billie Eilish became the youngest artist and first woman to sweep the Grammy Big Four categories.
• Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl broke Adele's record for the largest opening week by equivalent units with 4.002 million in October 2025.
• Charli XCX's Brat was named Collins Dictionary's word of the year for 2024.
• Lemonade's 'Becky with the good hair' became a lasting pop culture phrase.