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 55,000 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	4,484	226,058	Kid A (9th)by Radiohead
2001	4,408	212,557	Is This It (24th)by The Strokes
2002	4,410	206,399	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (56th)by Wilco
2003	4,749	183,263	Elephant (115th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,723	201,902	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,938	189,030	Illinois (43rd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	5,118	170,121	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (70th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,338	239,174	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,434	144,648	Fleet Foxes (131st)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,485	141,912	Merriweather Post Pavilion (145th)by Animal Collective
Total	49,087	1,915,064

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

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991.

Live In Paris
Live

Diana Krall

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

236

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992.

Flyleaf

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

235

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993.

A Day Without Rain

Enya

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

60 charts

Rank Score:

235

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994.

Prairie Wind

Neil Young

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

80 charts

Rank Score:

234

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995.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

233

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995

Overall Rank:

5,701

Average Rating:

72 (47 votes)

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996.

The Music

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

59 charts

Rank Score:

233

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997.

Musicology

Prince

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

68 charts

Rank Score:

233

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997

Overall Rank:

5,704

Average Rating:

73 (121 votes)

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998.

Vrioon

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

25 charts

Rank Score:

233

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999.

Absence

Dälek

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

63 charts

Rank Score:

233

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1000.

Cuatro Caminos

Café Tacvba

Year of Release:

2003

Appears in:

79 charts

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233

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	100	10%
2001	100	10%
2002	112	11%
2003	109	11%
2004	85	9%
2005	110	11%
2006	98	10%
2007	93	9%
2008	90	9%
2009	103	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	6	1%
Animal Collective	6	1%
Bright Eyes	5	1%
Porcupine Tree	5	1%
Dream Theater	5	1%
Opeth	5	1%
The Decemberists	5	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	555	56%
	215	22%
	54	5%
	33	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

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

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

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