Best Albums of the 2000s : Best Ever Albums

Best Albums of the 2000s

Listed below are the greatest albums of the 2000s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 9,700 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	951	189,140	Kid A (8th) by Radiohead
2001	990	173,739	Is This It (27th) by The Strokes
2002	1,032	179,504	A Rush Of Blood To The Head (54th) by Coldplay
2003	1,150	159,675	Elephant (48th) by The White Stripes
2004	1,145	185,089	Funeral (10th) by Arcade Fire
2005	1,237	149,142	Illinois (91st) by Sufjan Stevens
2006	1,327	152,997	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (53rd) by Arctic Monkeys
2007	1,369	221,177	In Rainbows (16th) by Radiohead
2008	1,361	136,124	Fleet Foxes (92nd) by Fleet Foxes
2009	1,420	139,609	Merriweather Post Pavilion (93rd) by Animal Collective
Total	11,982	1,686,196

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