Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Top 100 Albums of the 2000s

2000-2009:

The Top 100 Albums

These are the top albums from 2000-2009 according to Dave’s Music Database, which factors in sales, chart data, awards, album ratings, and appearances on best-of lists. Compilations, archival recordings, and reissues are not factored into this list.

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1. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
2. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
3. Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006)
4. The White Stripes Elephant (2003)
5. Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
6. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
7. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
8. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
9. Green Day American Idiot (2004)
10. Eminem The Eminem Show (2002)

11. Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002)
12. OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
13. Usher Confessions (2004)
14. Taylor Swift Fearless (2008)
15. Kanye West The College Dropout (2004)
16. O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack, 2000)
17. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
18. The White Stripes White Blood Cells (2001)
19. Lady Gaga The Fame (2008)
20. OutKast Stankonia (2000)

21. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000)
22. U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
23. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
24. Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (2001)
25. Coldplay Parachutes (2000)
26. Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (2004)
27. Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)
28. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003)
29. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
30. Coldplay X & Y (2005)

31. The Killers Hot Fuss (2004)
32. Beyoncé Dangerously in Love (2003)
33. Justin Timberlake Justified (2002)
34. Kings of Leon Only by the Night (2008)
35. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (2007)
36. Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
37. Kanye West Late Registration (2005)
38. Beck Sea Change (2002)
39. Bruce Springsteen The Rising (2002)
40. Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (2009)

41. Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001)
42. James Blunt Back to Bedlam (2004)
43. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
44. Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)
45. U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
46. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (2008)
47. Nickelback All the Right Reasons (2005)
48. D’Angelo Voodoo (2000)
49. The Libertines Up the Bracket (2002)
50. Brian Wilson Smile (2004)

51. PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
52. Evanescence Fallen (2003)
53. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
54. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand (2007)
55. Keane Hopes and Fears (2004)
56. Kanye West Graduation (2007)
57. High School Musical (TV soundtrack, 2006)
58. Avril Lavigne Let Go (2002)
59. Carrie Underwood Some Hearts (2005)
60. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)

61. Dixie Chicks Home (2002)
62. Bob Dylan Modern Times (2006)
63. N Sync No Strings Attached (2000)
64. Shania Twain Up! (2002)
65. Streets Original Pirate Material (2002)
66. Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (2002)
67. Various Artists (Eminem et al) 8 Mile (soundtrack, 2002)
68. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
69. Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (2006)
70. Norah Jones Feels Like Home (2004)

71. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (2003)
72. Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose (2004)
73. Kelly Clarkson Breakaway (2004)
74. Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way (2002)
75. Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
76. David Gray White Ladder (2000)
77. Eminem Encore (2004)
78. System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
79. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
80. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

81. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
82. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) (2009)
83. Bloc Party Silent Alarm (2005)
84. Maroon 5 Songs About Jane (2002)
85. U2 No Line on the Horizon (2009)
86. Jack Johnson In Between Dreams (2005)
87. Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way (2006)
88. Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner (2003)
89. Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
90. Jay-Z The Black Album (2003)

91. Linkin Park Meteora (2003)
92. Pink M!ssundaztood (2001)
93. Madonna Music (2000)
94. Streets A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004)
95. Radiohead Hail to the Thief (2003)
96. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III (2008)
97. Gorillaz Demon Days (2005)
98. 50 Cent The Massacre (2005)
99. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (2008)
100. Destiny’s Child Survivor (2001)


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First posted 11/6/2011; last updated 3/13/2024.

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