10 Best Number One Rock Albums Of The 2010s
7. Lazaretto - Jack White
As a solo artist, former White Stripes man Jack White put out three albums in the 2010s, and all three of them went to the top of the US charts. That sort of success should be illegal.
The second of White's chart-topping trio was Lazaretto, an album named after another word for a leper colony. Not sure if White actually named the album after that specifically, but let's face it, that is totally something he would do.
Featuring the singer-songwriter's usual eclectic mix of heavily-distorted guitars, screeching vocals, and enough different instruments to make an orchestra jealous, Lazaretto continued the great work White had done on his previous work, Blunderbuss. It was big, loud, and a little bit crazy, which is precisely what people wanted from him at the time.
If he'd have come out with something normal, he'd have gone bankrupt.
Critics loved Lazaretto and so did the general public. It topped the charts for one week in the summer of 2014, a year was dominated by the Frozen soundtrack.
Any calendar year that can boast both Disney and Jack White as number one albums must have been a pretty wild one.