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