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 53,000 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	4,241	229,559	Kid A (7th)by Radiohead
2001	4,164	214,861	Is This It (23rd)by The Strokes
2002	4,223	209,627	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (50th)by Wilco
2003	4,559	184,128	Elephant (114th)by The White Stripes
2004	4,537	205,877	Funeral (15th)by Arcade Fire
2005	4,759	190,970	Illinois (42nd)by Sufjan Stevens
2006	4,897	171,742	Whatever People Say I Am, That's... (67th)by Arctic Monkeys
2007	5,084	243,333	In Rainbows (5th)by Radiohead
2008	5,145	144,993	Fleet Foxes (134th)by Fleet Foxes
2009	5,316	143,348	Merriweather Post Pavilion (139th)by Animal Collective
Total	46,925	1,938,437

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

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In Rainbows

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,850 charts

Rank Score:

50,290

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Average Rating:

90 (3,856 votes)

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Kid A

Radiohead

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

3,164 charts

Rank Score:

50,001

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Average Rating:

89 (4,381 votes)

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554

Funeral

Arcade Fire

Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

2,831 charts

Rank Score:

40,517

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

2,416 charts

Rank Score:

32,662

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2005

Appears in:

1,612 charts

Rank Score:

22,854

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Average Rating:

86 (1,863 votes)

Comments:

167

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,642 charts

Rank Score:

20,063

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Average Rating:

85 (1,918 votes)

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172

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

Arctic Monkeys

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

1,581 charts

Rank Score:

17,945

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Year of Release:

2004

Appears in:

1,027 charts

Rank Score:

16,026

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86 (1,172 votes)

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Turn On The Bright Lights

Interpol

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,257 charts

Rank Score:

14,686

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84 (1,589 votes)

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127

10.

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

1,073 charts

Rank Score:

14,626

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86 (1,300 votes)

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107

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Year	Albums	%

2000	101	10%
2001	102	10%
2002	107	11%
2003	112	11%
2004	86	9%
2005	109	11%
2006	97	10%
2007	95	10%
2008	89	9%
2009	103	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Radiohead	6	1%
Animal Collective	6	1%
The White Stripes	5	0%
Opeth	5	0%
The Black Keys	5	0%
Death Cab For Cutie	5	0%
The Decemberists	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	553	55%
	217	22%
	55	5%
	35	3%
	23	2%
	22	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	988	99%
Yes	13	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

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

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