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 55,000 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	4,499	225,090	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,418	212,443	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,419	206,509	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,759	183,194	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,741	201,632	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,946	189,139	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,139	170,197	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (69th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,356	238,408	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,452	144,644	Fleet Foxes (130th)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,643	142,500	Merriweather Post Pavilion (145th)by Animal Collective
Total	49,372	1,913,755

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

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991.

My Maudlin Career

Camera Obscura (UK)

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

84 charts

Rank Score:

235

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992.

The Process Of Belief

Bad Religion

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

31 charts

Rank Score:

235

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993.

Memento Mori

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

24 charts

Rank Score:

235

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994.

The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
Compilation

Louis Armstrong

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

23 charts

Rank Score:

235

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994

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5,683

Average Rating:

79 (34 votes)

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995.

Love Is Overtaking Me

Arthur Russell

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

29 charts

Rank Score:

235

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995

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5,686

Average Rating:

74 (20 votes)

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996.

A Day Without Rain

Enya

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

60 charts

Rank Score:

234

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997.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

234

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998.

Live In Paris
Live

Diana Krall

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

234

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999.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

233

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999

Overall Rank:

5,719

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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1000.

Kings & Queens

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

233

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	101	10%
2001	101	10%
2002	112	11%
2003	109	11%
2004	83	8%
2005	110	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	89	9%
2009	105	11%

Artist	Albums	%

Animal Collective	6	1%
Radiohead	6	1%
Bright Eyes	5	0%
Wilco	5	0%
Dream Theater	5	0%
Porcupine Tree	5	0%
The Black Keys	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	556	56%
	217	22%
	54	5%
	32	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	987	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	991	99%
Yes	10	1%

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