West tops Time Mag's Album of the Year

Kanye West's latest album has topped Time Magazine's album of the year list.

The LP, called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, was released last month, and was well received by critics across the globe.

Discussing the record, which features Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross and John Legend among others, Time Magazine wrote: "Kanye West can seem like an attention-hungry young child who constantly tugs on his mother's pant leg, saying, 'Watch this! Watch this!' But once Kanye got our attention, instead of a simple somersault, he delivered the musical equivalent of a one-handed back handspring.

"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy layers complex computerised instrumentation over Yeezy's effortless flow, moving from the heavy hip-hop of ‘Power’ and ‘Monster’ all the way to the poppy Michael Jackson tribute, ‘All of the Lights’.

"Beyoncé, Jay-Z and others guest on several tracks. They don't drop by just to deliver a verse or chorus; they are as integral to the tracks as Kanye himself. This is most evident on 'Lost in the World'".

Other work featuring in the top ten includes Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, Drake's Thank Me Later and Sufjan Stevens's Age Of Adz.

Time Magazine's top ten albums of 2010 are listed below:

1.Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
3. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
4. The National: High Violet
5. Drake: Thank Me Later
6. Sufjan Stevens: Age of Adz
7. The Black Keys: Brothers
8. Yeasayer: Odd Blood
9. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
10. Beach House: Teen Dream