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	4,480	226,322	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,406	213,165	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,396	206,687	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,727	183,116	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,711	202,550	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,922	189,386	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,105	170,248	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (70th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,319	239,626	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,415	144,766	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,438	141,967	Merriweather Post Pavilion (146th)by Animal Collective
Total	48,919	1,917,834

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.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

234

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991

Overall Rank:

5,693

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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992.

Absence

Dälek

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

234

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993.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

234

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994.

Kings & Queens

Jamie T

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

37 charts

Rank Score:

234

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995.

Sound-Dust

Stereolab

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

233

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996.

The Ugly Organ

Cursive

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

54 charts

Rank Score:

233

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997.

Witching Hour

Ladytron

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

233

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998.

The Boy With No Name

Travis

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

44 charts

Rank Score:

231

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998

Overall Rank:

5,746

Average Rating:

72 (80 votes)

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999.

London Zoo

The Bug (UK)

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

231

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999

Overall Rank:

5,756

Average Rating:

75 (43 votes)

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1000.

This Is War

30 Seconds To Mars

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

57 charts

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231

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	101	10%
2001	101	10%
2002	110	11%
2003	110	11%
2004	84	8%
2005	110	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	90	9%
2009	103	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	6	1%
Animal Collective	6	1%
The Decemberists	5	1%
Death Cab For Cutie	5	1%
Dream Theater	5	1%
Opeth	5	1%
Wilco	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	553	55%
	218	22%
	52	5%
	34	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	987	99%
Yes	13	1%

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

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

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