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	4,487	225,797	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,408	212,497	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,409	206,301	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,750	183,187	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,726	201,878	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,939	188,997	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,124	170,008	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (70th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,341	238,993	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,438	144,568	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,566	142,356	Merriweather Post Pavilion (145th)by Animal Collective
Total	49,188	1,914,584

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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Live In Paris
Live

Diana Krall

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

235

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992.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

235

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993.

A Day Without Rain

Enya

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

60 charts

Rank Score:

234

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994.

Prairie Wind

Neil Young

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

234

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995.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

233

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995

Overall Rank:

5,704

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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996.

Musicology

Prince

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

68 charts

Rank Score:

233

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996

Overall Rank:

5,708

Average Rating:

73 (121 votes)

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997.

Absence

Dälek

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

233

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998.

The Music

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

59 charts

Rank Score:

233

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999.

Vrioon

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

25 charts

Rank Score:

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	112	11%
2003	108	11%
2004	85	9%
2005	111	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	90	9%
2009	103	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	6	1%
Animal Collective	6	1%
Bright Eyes	5	0%
The Decemberists	5	0%
Porcupine Tree	5	0%
The White Stripes	5	0%
Dream Theater	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	555	55%
	216	22%
	54	5%
	34	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	15	1%

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

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

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