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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2000s decade summary

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	4,483	225,978	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,407	212,585	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,408	206,463	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,746	183,018	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,723	202,167	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,934	189,041	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,116	170,077	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (70th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,336	239,174	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,424	144,634	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,450	141,821	Merriweather Post Pavilion (146th)by Animal Collective
Total	49,027	1,914,958

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.

Cuatro Caminos

Café Tacvba

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

79 charts

Rank Score:

234

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992.

Prairie Wind

Neil Young

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

234

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993.

Vrioon

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

25 charts

Rank Score:

234

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994.

Musicology

Prince

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

234

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994

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5,699

Average Rating:

73 (121 votes)

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995.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

234

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995

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5,700

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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996.

The Music

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

59 charts

Rank Score:

234

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997.

Kings & Queens

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

234

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998.

Absence

Dälek

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

234

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999.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

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233

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1000.

Sound-Dust

Stereolab

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

63 charts

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233

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	100	10%
2001	101	10%
2002	111	11%
2003	109	11%
2004	84	8%
2005	110	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	90	9%
2009	104	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	6	1%
Animal Collective	6	1%
Porcupine Tree	5	1%
Opeth	5	1%
The Decemberists	5	1%
The White Stripes	5	1%
The Black Keys	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	553	55%
	216	22%
	54	5%
	34	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	989	99%
Yes	11	1%

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

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Best Albums of 2004
1. Funeral by Arcade Fire
2. Madvillainy by Madvillain
3. American Idiot by Green Day
4. The College Dropout by Kanye West
5. Hot Fuss by The Killers
6. Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand
7. Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
8. Antics by Interpol
9. Mm.. Food by MF DOOM
10. Hopes And Fears by Keane
11. The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
12. Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
13. Brian Wilson Presents Smile by Brian Wilson
14. A Ghost Is Born by Wilco
15. Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens
16. Sung Tongs by Animal Collective
17. Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
18. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance
19. The Libertines by The Libertines
20. Medúlla by Björk