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 49,000 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	3,642	244,844	Kid A (5th)by Radiohead
2001	3,655	225,561	Is This It (23rd)by The Strokes
2002	3,756	219,764	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (48th)by Wilco
2003	4,110	192,667	Elephant (114th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,022	218,653	Funeral (14th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,282	199,761	Illinois (45th)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	4,427	179,720	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (62nd)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	4,502	259,030	In Rainbows (7th)by Radiohead
2008	4,601	150,231	Fleet Foxes (134th)by Fleet Foxes
2009	4,700	150,416	Merriweather Post Pavilion (131st)by Animal Collective
Total	41,697	2,040,647

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

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Kid A

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,081 charts

Rank Score:

57,864

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Average Rating:

89 (4,261 votes)

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545

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,754 charts

Rank Score:

56,151

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90 (3,748 votes)

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380

Funeral

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,771 charts

Rank Score:

46,829

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

2,320 charts

Rank Score:

36,263

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2005

Appears in:

1,544 charts

Rank Score:

24,550

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Average Rating:

86 (1,806 votes)

Comments:

166

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,600 charts

Rank Score:

22,749

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85 (1,872 votes)

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169

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

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

1,524 charts

Rank Score:

20,256

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Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

988 charts

Rank Score:

17,455

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Average Rating:

86 (1,127 votes)

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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

1,043 charts

Rank Score:

16,582

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86 (1,260 votes)

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105

10.

Turn On The Bright Lights

Interpol

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,215 charts

Rank Score:

16,246

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Average Rating:

84 (1,543 votes)

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124

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	101	10%
2001	104	10%
2002	99	10%
2003	112	11%
2004	86	9%
2005	108	11%
2006	97	10%
2007	102	10%
2008	93	9%
2009	98	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Animal Collective	6	1%
Bright Eyes	5	1%
Dream Theater	5	1%
The White Stripes	5	1%
Radiohead	5	1%
The Decemberists	5	1%
Death Cab For Cutie	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	559	56%
	220	22%
	55	6%
	26	3%
	22	2%
	21	2%
	21	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	984	98%
Yes	16	2%

Live?	Albums	%
No	988	99%
Yes	12	1%

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

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