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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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)

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547

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,801 charts

Rank Score:

54,269

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Average Rating:

90 (3,792 votes)

Comments:

385

Funeral

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,801 charts

Rank Score:

44,682

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

2,359 charts

Rank Score:

34,953

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2005

Appears in:

1,571 charts

Rank Score:

23,741

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Average Rating:

86 (1,827 votes)

Comments:

166

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,617 charts

Rank Score:

21,898

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Average Rating:

85 (1,892 votes)

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170

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

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

1,547 charts

Rank Score:

19,744

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Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

1,003 charts

Rank Score:

17,026

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Average Rating:

86 (1,148 votes)

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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

1,049 charts

Rank Score:

15,748

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86 (1,272 votes)

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105

10.

Turn On The Bright Lights

Interpol

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,221 charts

Rank Score:

15,529

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Average Rating:

84 (1,552 votes)

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126

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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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