Rolling Stone names Kanye West's album best of 2010

Kanye West's fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which has already sold over 500,000 copies, has been named by Rolling Stone magazine as the year's best album.

Kanye West's fifth studio album

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

has been named by

Rolling Stone

magazine as the year's best album.

The recording, released Nov 22, has already sold over 500,000 copies, but came out too late for inclusion in the Grammy award nominations which were announced last week.

Second on the list was the album

Brothers

by the Ohio-based blues-rock duo The Black Keys, while Elton John and Leon Russell took the third spot for their collaboration,

The Union.

Montreal-based collective Arcade Fire's

The Suburbs

snagged the fourth spot on the list, while Nashville bluesman Jamey Johnson took fifth with

The Guitar Song

.