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. Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
5. The White Stripes Elephant (2003)
6. Green Day American Idiot (2004)
7. Radiohead Kid A (2000)
8. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
9. Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002)
10. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
11. Eminem The Eminem Show (2002)
12. OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
13. Usher Confessions (2004)
14. Taylor Swift Fearless (2008)
15. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
16. Lady Gaga The Fame (2008)
17. The White Stripes White Blood Cells (2001)
18. U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
19. Kanye West The College Dropout (2004)
20. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
21. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000)
22. OutKast Stankonia (2000)
23. Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (2001)
24. Coldplay Parachutes (2000)
25. Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (2004)
26. O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack, 2000)
27. Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)
28. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
29. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2003)
30. Coldplay X & Y (2005)
31. Beyoncé Dangerously in Love (2003)
32. The Killers Hot Fuss (2004)
33. Brian Wilson Smile (2004)
34. Kings of Leon Only by the Night (2008)
35. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
36. Justin Timberlake Justified (2002)
37. Bruce Springsteen The Rising (2002)
38. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (2007)
39. Nickelback All the Right Reasons (2005)
40. Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
41. Kanye West Late Registration (2005)
42. Beck Sea Change (2002)
43. Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (2009)
44. The Libertines Up the Bracket (2002)
45. U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
46. Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)
47. D’Angelo Voodoo (2000)
48. Evanescence Fallen (2003)
49. PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
50. Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001)
51. Avril Lavigne Let Go (2002)
52. James Blunt Back to Bedlam (2004)
53. Keane Hopes and Fears (2004)
54. Kanye West Graduation (2007)
55. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand (2007)
56. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (2008)
57. Dixie Chicks Home (2002)
58. Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (2002)
59. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
60. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
61. Carrie Underwood Some Hearts (2005)
62. High School Musical (TV soundtrack, 2006)
63. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
64. N Sync No Strings Attached (2000)
65. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (2009)
66. Kelly Clarkson Breakaway (2004)
67. Shania Twain Up! (2002)
68. Bob Dylan Modern Times (2006)
69. Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
70. Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose (2004)
71. Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (2006)
72. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) (2009)
73. Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way (2002)
74. Eminem Encore (2004)
75. Streets Original Pirate Material (2002)
76. System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
77. Various Artists (Eminem et al) 8 Mile (soundtrack, 2002)
78. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (2003)
79. Joanna Newsom Ys (2006)
80. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
81. Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
82. Maroon 5 Songs About Jane (2002)
83. Pink M!ssundaztood (2001)
84. Norah Jones Feels Like Home (2004)
85. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
86. Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way (2006)
87. Daft Punk Discovery (2001)
88. U2 No Line on the Horizon (2009)
89. Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
90. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
91. David Gray White Ladder (2000)
92. Streets A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004)
93. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III (2008)
94. Linkin Park Meteora (2003)
95. Jay-Z The Black Album (2003)
96. Destiny’s Child Survivor (2001)
97. Radiohead Hail to the Thief (2003)
98. Gorillaz Demon Days (2005)
99. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (2008)
100. Bloc Party Silent Alarm (2005)
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First posted 11/6/2011; last updated 2/5/2026.
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