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 53,000 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	4,146	232,488	Kid A (5th)by Radiohead
2001	4,069	216,298	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,142	211,710	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (48th)by Wilco
2003	4,453	185,975	Elephant (113th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,450	208,485	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,659	193,247	Illinois (42nd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	4,837	173,445	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (66th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	4,999	246,673	In Rainbows (6th)by Radiohead
2008	5,040	145,911	Fleet Foxes (132nd)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,217	144,349	Merriweather Post Pavilion (139th)by Animal Collective
Total	46,012	1,958,581

The best artists of the 2000s were Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Coldplay, Sufjan Stevens, Arctic Monkeys, Wilco, Animal Collective, Muse and The White Stripes.

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Kid A

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,155 charts

Rank Score:

51,339

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Average Rating:

89 (4,354 votes)

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551

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,833 charts

Rank Score:

51,102

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90 (3,835 votes)

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386

Funeral

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,826 charts

Rank Score:

41,731

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

2,401 charts

Rank Score:

33,167

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2005

Appears in:

1,598 charts

Rank Score:

23,074

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Average Rating:

86 (1,851 votes)

Comments:

166

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,638 charts

Rank Score:

20,554

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Average Rating:

85 (1,914 votes)

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172

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

1,578 charts

Rank Score:

18,426

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Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

1,020 charts

Rank Score:

16,215

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86 (1,166 votes)

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Turn On The Bright Lights

Interpol

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,251 charts

Rank Score:

14,928

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84 (1,578 votes)

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127

10.

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

1,064 charts

Rank Score:

14,796

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Average Rating:

86 (1,290 votes)

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106

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	102	10%
2001	103	10%
2002	105	11%
2003	114	11%
2004	85	9%
2005	107	11%
2006	96	10%
2007	97	10%
2008	90	9%
2009	101	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	6	1%
Animal Collective	6	1%
Bright Eyes	5	1%
Wilco	5	1%
Porcupine Tree	5	1%
The White Stripes	5	1%
Opeth	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	551	55%
	217	22%
	57	6%
	35	4%
	23	2%
	22	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	987	99%
Yes	13	1%

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

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