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Best Albums of the 2000s

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Listed below are the greatest albums of the 2000s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 37,000 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	2,736	409,421	Kid A (6th) by Radiohead
2001	2,793	359,036	Safe Mode: On Is This It (24th) by The Strokes
2002	2,872	363,625	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (47th) by Wilco
2003	3,208	313,063	Elephant (72nd) by The White Stripes
2004	3,102	372,253	Funeral (9th) by Arcade Fire
2005	3,372	323,382	Illinois (55th) by Sufjan Stevens
2006	3,481	304,128	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (45th) by Arctic Monkeys
2007	3,588	447,934	In Rainbows (12th) by Radiohead
2008	3,737	253,956	Fleet Foxes (111th) by Fleet Foxes
2009	3,845	265,828	Merriweather Post Pavilion (99th) by Animal Collective
Total	32,734	3,412,626

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

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Is This It

The Strokes

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	1,919 charts
Rank in 2001:	1	Rank Score:	67,393
Rank in 2000s	4	Overall Rank:	24
Average Rating: 85/100 (2,407 votes)
Comments: 235 comments

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13.

Amnesiac

Radiohead

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	1,095 charts
Rank in 2001:	2	Rank Score:	25,397
Rank in 2000s	13	Overall Rank:	98
Average Rating: 83/100 (2,057 votes)
Comments: 171 comments

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28.

Origin Of Symmetry

Muse

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	672 charts
Rank in 2001:	3	Rank Score:	18,412
Rank in 2000s	28	Overall Rank:	144
Average Rating: 80/100 (1,193 votes)
Comments: 72 comments

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29.

Discovery

Daft Punk

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	739 charts
Rank in 2001:	4	Rank Score:	17,891
Rank in 2000s	29	Overall Rank:	150
Average Rating: 82/100 (1,088 votes)
Comments: 67 comments

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30.

Lateralus

Tool

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	551 charts
Rank in 2001:	5	Rank Score:	16,139
Rank in 2000s	30	Overall Rank:	165
Average Rating: 81/100 (762 votes)
Comments: 57 comments

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39.

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	715 charts
Rank in 2001:	6	Rank Score:	12,859
Rank in 2000s	39	Overall Rank:	215
Average Rating: 81/100 (1,130 votes)
Comments: 59 comments

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46.

The Glow Pt. 2

The Microphones

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	461 charts
Rank in 2001:	7	Rank Score:	11,043
Rank in 2000s	46	Overall Rank:	253
Average Rating: 83/100 (540 votes)
Comments: 44 comments

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48.

Toxicity

System Of A Down

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	501 charts
Rank in 2001:	8	Rank Score:	10,752
Rank in 2000s	48	Overall Rank:	258
Average Rating: 77/100 (802 votes)
Comments: 37 comments

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49.

Vespertine

Björk

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	540 charts
Rank in 2001:	9	Rank Score:	10,399
Rank in 2000s	49	Overall Rank:	264
Average Rating: 83/100 (701 votes)
Comments: 39 comments

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86.

Oh, Inverted World

The Shins

Year of Release:	2001	Appears in:	363 charts
Rank in 2001:	10	Rank Score:	6,099
Rank in 2000s	86	Overall Rank:	436
Average Rating: 79/100 (568 votes)
Comments: 27 comments

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	93	9%
2001	97	10%
2002	99	10%
2003	109	11%
2004	89	9%
2005	101	10%
2006	101	10%
2007	109	11%
2008	100	10%
2009	102	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Animal Collective	6	1%
Radiohead	5	1%
Muse	5	1%
Death Cab For Cutie	5	1%
The Decemberists	5	1%
The White Stripes	5	1%
The Black Keys	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	550	55%
	234	23%
	58	6%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	22	2%
	20	2%
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