Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s
by New Music Express (2009) 
New Musical Express is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. These are their best albums of 2000s. The Top 100 albums released between January 2000 and December 2009, as voted for by NME staff (past and present) plus a selection of musicians and industry figures that included Arctic Monkeys, Carl Barat, The Killers, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty, Elbow, Johnny Marr, MGMT, Ian Brown, The Big Pink, Snoop Dogg, Alan McGee, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Michael Eavis and many, many more
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Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2000 | 12 | 12% | |
| 2001 | 10 | 10% | |
| 2002 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2003 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2004 | 9 | 9% | |
| 2005 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2006 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2007 | 14 | 14% | |
| 2008 | 6 | 6% | |
| 2009 | 3 | 3% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| M.I.A. | 2 | 2% | |
| The Libertines | 2 | 2% | |
| The Shins | 2 | 2% | |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | 2 | 2% | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2 | 2% | |
| The White Stripes | 2 | 2% | |
| OutKast | 2 | 2% | |
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Other 2000s decade charts
A total of 22 charts from recognised sources are available for 2000s, with the 3 most prominent highlighted below. Additionally, there are 845 user submitted charts covering this period.
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| 100 Best Albums of the 2000s | Rolling Stone | 2000s decade chart | 2011 | |
| The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s | Pitchfork | 2000s decade chart | 2009 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s | New Music Express | 2000s decade chart | 2009 | |
Other charts by New Music Express
A total of 61 charts from New Music Express are available; the 3 most recent of this type are highlighted below.
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s | New Music Express | 2010s decade chart | 2019 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s | New Music Express | 2000s decade chart | 2009 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s | New Music Express | 1980s decade chart | 1990 | |
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Warman 07/19/2017 17:38 | #194610
Kinda hard to do a greatest list for this decade without at least mentioning Kanye...
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jackowacko1055 07/04/2013 17:37 | #80450
The order is pretty weird, but otherwise it's a pretty good list.
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mianfei 04/04/2019 10:15 | #234488
This list, although I know very little about 2000s music vis-à-vis earlier decades, is even worse if anything than NME’s all-time Top 500 Albums list from 2016.
For starters, why is Joanna Newsom, whose four albums are a series of masterpieces not rivalled by anyone, not included for even one of them??
Then there is the whole “freak folk” scene entirely omitted, and too many soppy, annoying pop bands like Blur, the White Stripes, the Strokes and even the overrated Arcade Fire. Having industry representatives, as one “janitor-x” said back when ‘Rolling Stone’ did their first ‘Top 500 Albums’, on a panel is a sure way to make a bad list. It also tend to contradict a great deal of what musicians themselves are likely to know.
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Grzywa 06/20/2014 13:26 | #114873
Grzywa 06/20/2014 13:26 | #114873
It's a good one, though very indie-leaning.
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tgarritsen 12/14/2013 02:42 | #97521
tgarritsen 12/14/2013 02:42 | #97521
Pretty good list. I like it because as it doesn't put Kid A or Funeral on top as most 2000's charts do. Insteed it shows more of the rock side of the 2000's with Is This It?, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Up The Bracket.
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