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	4,488	225,808	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,408	212,764	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,410	206,670	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,750	183,349	Elephant (114th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,727	202,097	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,940	189,097	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,125	170,182	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (70th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,341	239,033	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,440	144,599	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,582	142,473	Merriweather Post Pavilion (145th)by Animal Collective
Total	49,211	1,916,071

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.

Love Is Overtaking Me

Arthur Russell

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

29 charts

Rank Score:

236

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991

Overall Rank:

5,656

Average Rating:

74 (20 votes)

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992.

My Maudlin Career

Camera Obscura (UK)

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

83 charts

Rank Score:

235

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993.

Live In Paris
Live

Diana Krall

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

235

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994.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

235

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995.

A Day Without Rain

Enya

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

60 charts

Rank Score:

234

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996.

Prairie Wind

Neil Young

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

234

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997.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

233

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997

Overall Rank:

5,707

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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998.

Musicology

Prince

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

68 charts

Rank Score:

233

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998

Overall Rank:

5,711

Average Rating:

73 (121 votes)

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999.

Absence

Dälek

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

233

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1000.

The Music

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

59 charts

Rank Score:

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	110	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	90	9%
2009	104	10%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	555	55%
	215	21%
	54	5%
	34	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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