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 47,000 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	3,564	250,156	Kid A (5th)by Radiohead
2001	3,593	227,989	Is This It (23rd)by The Strokes
2002	3,680	223,376	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (48th)by Wilco
2003	4,033	194,587	Elephant (112th)by The White Stripes
2004	3,922	222,837	Funeral (13th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,185	202,717	Illinois (45th)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	4,351	185,258	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (56th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	4,412	266,231	In Rainbows (7th)by Radiohead
2008	4,534	152,972	Fleet Foxes (133rd)by Fleet Foxes
2009	4,619	153,778	Merriweather Post Pavilion (127th)by Animal Collective
Total	40,893	2,079,902

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

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Kid A

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,051 charts

Rank Score:

60,463

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Average Rating:

89 (4,193 votes)

Comments:

541

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,731 charts

Rank Score:

58,469

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16.

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

1,258 charts

Rank Score:

13,717

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27.

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

1,116 charts

Rank Score:

10,123

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Overall Rank:

168

Average Rating:

81 (2,242 votes)

Comments:

161

400.

I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Live

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

145 charts

Rank Score:

689

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400

Overall Rank:

2,325

Average Rating:

78 (459 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	99	10%
2003	115	12%
2004	87	9%
2005	107	11%
2006	101	10%
2007	100	10%
2008	92	9%
2009	96	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Animal Collective	6	1%
Radiohead	5	1%
Death Cab For Cutie	5	1%
The Decemberists	5	1%
Wilco	5	1%
Bright Eyes	5	1%
Porcupine Tree	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	562	56%
	216	22%
	59	6%
	25	3%
	21	2%
	21	2%
	20	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	982	98%
Yes	18	2%

Live?	Albums	%
No	989	99%
Yes	11	1%

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

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