Top 10 Albums Year by Year (2000-2025)

Dave’s Music Database: Top 10 Albums Year by Year (2007-2025)

These are the top 10 albums for each year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, awards, and aggregates from year-end lists and charts. You can also click on the “decade” buttons to see the top 100 songs for each decade. I’m in the process of developing this into a book. Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here. Click on a button below to go straight to that decade.

f 2025 Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl Morgan Wallen I’m the Problem Bad Bunny Debí Tirar Más Fotos Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend Lady Gaga Mayhem The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow Various Artists K-pop Demon Hunters Olivia Dean The Art of Loving Playboi Carti Music Justin Bieber Swag 2024 Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department Sabrina Carpenter Short N’ Sweet Kendrick Lamar GNX Charli XCX Brat Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia Zach Bryan Great American Bar Scene Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well The Cure Songs of a Lost World 2023 Morgan Wallen One Thing at a Time Olivia Rodrigo Guts Zach Bryan Zach Bryan Boygenius The Record Chris Stapleton Higher The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Drake For All the Dogs Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess Metallica 72 Seasons Travis Scott Utopia 2022 Taylor Swift Midnights SZA SOS Harry Styles Harry’s House Beyoncé Renaissance Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti Noah Kahan Stick Season Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Zach Bryan American Heartbreak The Weeknd Dawn FM Wet Leg Wet Leg 2021 Olivia Rodrigo Sour Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album Adele 30 Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed Tyler, the Creator Call Me if You Get Lost Lil Nas X Montero Drake Certified Lover Boy Doja Cat Planet Her Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days 2020 Taylor Swift Folklore Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters Chris Stapleton Starting Over The Weeknd After Hours Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia Taylor Swift Evermore Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Bruce Springsteen Letter to You Pop Smoke Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways

2019 Bilie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding Ariana Grande Thank U, Next Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Taylor Swift Lover Bruce Springsteen Western Stars Vampire Weekend Father of the Bride Tyler, the Creator Igor The Highwomen The Highwomen Lizzo Cuz I Love You 2018 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour Drake Scorpion Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentleys Cardi B Invasion of Privacy Travis Scott Astroworld Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born soundtrack Ariana Grande Sweetener Pusha T Daytona 2017 Kendrick Lamar Damn. Ed Sheeran ÷ (Divide) Lorde Melodrama Taylor Swift Reputation The Greatest Showman soundtrack Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit The Nashville Sound Luke Combs This One’s for You SZA CTRL Chris Stapleton From a Room: Volume 1 Drake More Life 2016 Beyoncé Lemonade David Bowie Blackstar Drake Views Frank Ocean Blond Rihanna Anti Sturgill Simpson A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Solange A Seat at the Table Bruno Mars 24K Magic The Weeknd Starboy Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool 2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly Adele 25 Chris Stapleton Traveller Lin-Manuel Miranda (composer) Hamilton cast album The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Justin Bieber Purpose Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit Drake If You’re Reading This, You’re Too Late Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear 2014 Taylor Swift 1989 Ed Sheeran X (Multiply) D’Angelo & the Vanguard Black Messiah Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream U2 Songs of Innocence St. Vincent St. Vincent Beck Morning Phase Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 Miranda Lambert Platinum 2013 Frozen soundtrack Beyoncé Beyoncé Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Arctic Monkeys AM Kanye West Yeezus Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer, Different Park Lorde Pure Heroine Daft Punk Random Access Memories Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 2012 Kendrick Lamar Good Kid m.A.A.d. City Frank Ocean Channel Orange Taylor Swift Red Mumford & Sons Babel Lana Del Rey Born to Die Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox Imagine Dragons Night Visions Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do Jack White Blunderbuss Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball 2011 Adele 21 Drake Take Care Lady Gaga Born This Way PJ Harvey Let England Shake Michael Bublé Christmas Bon Iver Bon Iver Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Ed Sheeran Plus (+) Foo Fighters Wasting Light Florence + the Machine Ceremonials 2010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Arcade Fire The Suburbs Eminem Recovery Katy Perry Teenage Dream Bruno Mars Doo Wops & Hooligans Taylor Swift Speak Now Janelle Monáe The Arch Android The Black Keys Brothers The National High Violet Lady Antebellum Need You Now

2009 Mumford & Sons Sigh No More Lady Gaga The Fame Monster Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion U2 No Line on the Horizon Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream Florence + the Machine Lungs The XX XX Eminem Relapse Michael Bublé Crazy Love 2008 Taylor Swift Fearless Lady Gaga The Fame Kings of Leon Only by the Night Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Lil Wayne Tha Carter III Beyoncé I Am…Sasha Fierce Adele 19 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Portishead Third 2007 Radiohead In Rainbows LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver Kanye West Graduation Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare Bruce Springsteen Magic The National Boxer Eagles Long Road Out of Eden 2006 Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006) Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006) Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds High School Musical soundtrack Bob Dylan Modern Times Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium Joanna Newsom Ys TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way Taylor Swift Taylor Swift 2005 Sufjan Stevens Illinois Coldplay X & Y Nickelback All the Right Reasons Kanye West Late Registration Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi Carrie Underwood Some Hearts Gorillaz Demon Days Bloc Party Silent Alarm Jack Johnson In Between Dreams Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning 2004 Green Day American Idiot Arcade Fire Funeral Usher Confessions Kanye West The College Dropout Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand The Killers Hot Fuss Brian Wilson Smile U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb James Blunt Back to Bedlam Keane Hopes and Fears 2003 The White Stripes Elephant OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Beyoncé Dangerously in Love Evanescence Fallen Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell Linkin Park Meteora Jay-Z The Black Album Radiohead Hail to the Thief Alicia Keys The Diary of… 2002 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head Norah Jones Come Away with Me Eminem The Eminem Show Justin Timberlake Justified Bruce Springsteen The Rising Beck Sea Change The Libertines Up the Bracket Avril Lavigne Let Go Dixie Chicks Home Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf 2001 The Strokes Is This It The White Stripes White Blood Cells Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor Jay-Z The Blueprint Bob Dylan Love and Theft System of a Down Toxicity Pink M!ssundaztood Daft Punk Discovery Destiny’s Child Survivor 2000 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP Radiohead Kid A U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind Linkin Park Hybrid Theory OutKast Stankonia Coldplay Parachutes Various artists O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack D’Angelo Voodoo PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea N Sync No Strings Attached Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: Top Songs and Albums by Year lists Dave’s Music Database: Songs of the Decade lists First posted 2/4/2026; last updated 2/5/2026.