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	4,481	226,003	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,406	212,692	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,400	206,483	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,727	182,967	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,711	202,284	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,924	189,072	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,109	170,041	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (70th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,319	239,240	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,416	144,582	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,441	141,876	Merriweather Post Pavilion (145th)by Animal Collective
Total	48,934	1,915,240

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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Prairie Wind

Neil Young

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

234

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992.

Musicology

Prince

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

234

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992

Overall Rank:

5,694

Average Rating:

73 (121 votes)

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993.

The Music

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

59 charts

Rank Score:

234

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994.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

234

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994

Overall Rank:

5,696

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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995.

Absence

Dälek

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

234

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996.

Kings & Queens

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

234

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997.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

233

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998.

Sound-Dust

Stereolab

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

233

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999.

Witching Hour

Ladytron

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

232

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1000.

The Ugly Organ

Cursive

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

55 charts

Rank Score:

232

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	100	10%
2001	101	10%
2002	110	11%
2003	110	11%
2004	84	8%
2005	111	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	89	9%
2009	104	10%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	554	55%
	216	22%
	53	5%
	34	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

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

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

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