Best Albums of the 2000s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 2000s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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Year	Albums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts.	Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year)	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
2000	4,156	232,652	Kid A (5th)by Radiohead
2001	4,090	216,445	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,165	211,848	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (48th)by Wilco
2003	4,495	185,871	Elephant (113th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,469	208,207	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,668	192,804	Illinois (42nd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	4,854	173,084	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (66th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,017	246,015	In Rainbows (7th)by Radiohead
2008	5,069	145,772	Fleet Foxes (133rd)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,237	144,184	Merriweather Post Pavilion (139th)by Animal Collective
Total	46,220	1,956,882

The best artists of the 2000s were Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Coldplay, Sufjan Stevens, Arctic Monkeys, Wilco, Animal Collective, Muse and The White Stripes.

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981.

Good Girl Gone Bad

Rihanna

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

237

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981

Overall Rank:

5,583

Average Rating:

62 (129 votes)

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982.

Control

Pedro The Lion

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

43 charts

Rank Score:

237

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983.

Somewhere Along The Highway

Cult Of Luna

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

29 charts

Rank Score:

237

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983

Overall Rank:

5,598

Average Rating:

72 (35 votes)

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984.

Anno Domini High Definition

Riverside (PL)

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

237

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985.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

45 charts

Rank Score:

237

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985

Overall Rank:

5,608

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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986.

Sound-Dust

Stereolab

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

236

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987.

Indestructible

Disturbed

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

35 charts

Rank Score:

236

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987

Overall Rank:

5,627

Average Rating:

65 (78 votes)

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988.

The Disintegration Loops II

William Basinski

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

38 charts

Rank Score:

236

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989.

Up!

Shania Twain

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

235

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990.

Supermodified

Amon Tobin

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

68 charts

Rank Score:

234

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	102	10%
2001	103	10%
2002	106	11%
2003	113	11%
2004	84	8%
2005	107	11%
2006	96	10%
2007	98	10%
2008	90	9%
2009	101	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Animal Collective	6	1%
Radiohead	6	1%
Dream Theater	5	1%
Death Cab For Cutie	5	1%
Opeth	5	1%
Bright Eyes	5	1%
Wilco	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	549	55%
	218	22%
	57	6%
	35	4%
	23	2%
	22	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	987	99%
Yes	13	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	988	99%
Yes	12	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	10	1%

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