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 51,000 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	3,812	239,605	Kid A (5th)by Radiohead
2001	3,809	221,039	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	3,908	216,102	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (48th)by Wilco
2003	4,244	189,171	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,148	214,468	Funeral (14th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,475	197,002	Illinois (44th)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	4,593	177,612	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (60th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	4,781	254,399	In Rainbows (7th)by Radiohead
2008	4,830	148,324	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,019	148,141	Merriweather Post Pavilion (136th)by Animal Collective
Total	43,619	2,005,862

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

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Kid A

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,117 charts

Rank Score:

55,100

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Average Rating:

89 (4,310 votes)

Comments:

547

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,801 charts

Rank Score:

54,269

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16.

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

1,283 charts

Rank Score:

12,320

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28.

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

1,149 charts

Rank Score:

9,541

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Overall Rank:

176

Average Rating:

81 (2,296 votes)

Comments:

163

384.

I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Live

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

157 charts

Rank Score:

712

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384

Overall Rank:

2,269

Average Rating:

78 (466 votes)

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Total albums: 5. Page 1 of 1

Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	101	10%
2001	102	10%
2002	105	11%
2003	110	11%
2004	89	9%
2005	109	11%
2006	97	10%
2007	99	10%
2008	90	9%
2009	99	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Animal Collective	6	1%
Wilco	5	0%
The Decemberists	5	0%
Bright Eyes	5	0%
Porcupine Tree	5	0%
The Black Keys	5	0%
The White Stripes	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	560	56%
	217	22%
	55	5%
	31	3%
	22	2%
	22	2%
	22	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	987	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	989	99%
Yes	12	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	991	99%
Yes	10	1%

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Best Ever Artists
1. The Beatles
2. Radiohead
3. Pink Floyd
4. David Bowie
5. Bob Dylan
6. Led Zeppelin
7. The Rolling Stones
8. Arcade Fire
9. The Velvet Underground
10. Kendrick Lamar
11. Nirvana (US)
12. The Smiths
13. Neil Young
14. Miles Davis
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16. Kanye West
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19. R.E.M.
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