| 1 | 2000 | Kid A | Radiohead | Album | 4.45 | 29 |
| 2 | 2003 | Is This It | The Strokes | Single | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | 2002 | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | Wilco | Album | 4.35 | 14 |
| 4 | 2001 | The Blueprint | Jay‐Z | Album | 3.65 | 8 |
| 5 | 2003 | Elephant | The White Stripes | Album | 3.9 | 26 |
| 6 | 2004 | Funeral | Arcade Fire | Album | 4.35 | 14 |
| 7 | 2000 | The Marshall Mathers LP | Eminem | Album | 4.1 | 23 |
| 8 | 2006 | Modern Times | Bob Dylan | Album | 3.8 | 12 |
| 9 | 2007 | Kala | M.I.A. | Album | 3.8 | 9 |
| 10 | 2003 | The College Dropout | Kanye West | Album | 4.2 | 18 |
| 11 | 2001 | “Love and Theft” | Bob Dylan | Album | 4 | 20 |
| 12 | 2007 | Sound of Silver | LCD Soundsystem | Album | 3.75 | 9 |
| 13 | 2000 | All That You Can’t Leave Behind | U2 | Album | 3.8 | 34 |
| 14 | 2003 | The Black Album | Jay‐Z | Album | 3.1 | 6 |
| 15 | 2002 | The Rising | Bruce Springsteen | Album | 4 | 73 |
| 16 | 2000 | Stankonia | OutKast | Album | 3.95 | 18 |
| 17 | 2002 | Sea Change | Beck | Album | 3.85 | 22 |
| 18 | 2007 | Oracular Spectacular | MGMT | Album | 3.85 | 11 |
| 19 | 2006 | Back to Black | Amy Winehouse | Album | 4.15 | 41 |
| 20 | 2001 | White Blood Cells | The White Stripes | Album | 4.2 | 20 |
| 21 | 2002 | A Rush of Blood to the Head | Coldplay | Album | 4 | 27 |
| 22 | 2004 | American Idiot | Green Day | Single | | 8 |
| 23 | 2000 | Voodoo | D’Angelo | Album | 4.4 | 10 |
| 24 | 2007 | Magic | Bruce Springsteen | Album | 3.8 | 46 |
| 25 | 2001 | Amnesiac | Radiohead | Album | 3.8 | 22 |
| 26 | 2006 | The Greatest | Cat Power | Album | 5 | 14 |
| 27 | 2002 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | The Flaming Lips | Album | 4 | 17 |
| 28 | 2002 | Fever to Tell | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Album | 4.5 | 11 |
| 29 | 1999 | Ágætis byrjun | Sigur Rós | Album | 4.35 | 28 |
| 30 | 2007 | Radiohead | In Rainbows | Album | | 1 |
| 31 | 2005 | Z | My Morning Jacket | Album | 4 | 10 |
| 32 | 2008 | Tha Carter III | Lil Wayne | Album | 3 | 15 |
| 33 | 2001 | Discovery | Daft Punk | Album | 4.3 | 17 |
| 34 | 2003 | Speakerboxxx / The Love Below | OutKast | Album | 3.35 | 12 |
| 35 | 2000 | Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea | PJ Harvey | Album | 4.2 | 12 |
| 36 | 2009 | No Line on the Horizon | U2 | Album | 3.9 | 27 |
| 37 | 2003 | Get Rich or Die Tryin’ | 50 Cent | Album | 3.4 | 15 |
| 38 | 2000 | Heartbreaker | Ryan Adams | Album | 3.5 | 13 |
| 39 | 2004 | Aha Shake Heartbreak | Kings of Leon | Album | 3.8 | 10 |
| 40 | 2005 | Late Registration | Kanye West | Album | 4.25 | 18 |
| 41 | 2006 | Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not | Arctic Monkeys | Album | 4 | 15 |
| 42 | 2000 | Figure 8 | Elliott Smith | Album | 4.15 | 8 |
| 43 | 2004 | Hot Fuss | The Killers | Album | 3.8 | 27 |
| 44 | 2001 | Toxicity | System of a Down | Album | 4.4 | 37 |
| 45 | 2007 | Graduation | Kanye West | Album | 3.75 | 20 |
| 46 | 2006 | FutureSex/LoveSounds | Justin Timberlake | Album | 3.9 | 17 |
| 47 | 2008 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | Album | 4.1 | 10 |
| 48 | 2008 | Dear Science | TV on the Radio | Album | 4 | 14 |
| 49 | 2005 | Extraordinary Machine | Fiona Apple | Album | 4.35 | 13 |
| 50 | 2005 | I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning | Bright Eyes | Album | 4.5 | 9 |
| 51 | 2002 | Kill the Moonlight | Spoon | Album | 3.85 | 6 |
| 52 | 2005 | Arular | M.I.A. | Album | 3.9 | 9 |
| 53 | 2008 | Only by the Night | Kings of Leon | Album | 3.8 | 18 |
| 54 | 2002 | Come Away With Me | Norah Jones | Album | 3.95 | 51 |
| 55 | 2007 | Raising Sand | Robert Plant | Alison Krauss | Album | 3.5 | 14 |
| 56 | 2007 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | Album | 3.35 | 9 |
| 57 | 2003 | Transatlanticism | Death Cab for Cutie | Album | 4.4 | 13 |
| 58 | 2004 | The Grey Album | Danger Mouse | Album + Remix | 4.5 | 5 |
| 59 | 2002 | Turn On the Bright Lights | Interpol | Album | 4.4 | 21 |
| 60 | 2009 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Phoenix | Album | 3.9 | 16 |
| 61 | 2001 | Oh, Inverted World | The Shins | Album | 3.9 | 7 |
| 62 | 2000 | American III: Solitary Man | Johnny Cash | Album | 4.55 | 9 |
| 63 | 2008 | 808s & Heartbreak | Kanye West | Album | 3.5 | 12 |
| 64 | 2001 | Time (The Revelator) | Gillian Welch | Album | 2 | 6 |
| 65 | 2001 | Próxima estación: Esperanza | Manu Chao | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 66 | 2005 | I Am a Bird Now | Antony and the Johnsons | Album | 4.2 | 4 |
| 67 | 2001 | Vespertine | Björk | Album | 4.3 | 26 |
| 68 | 2004 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | U2 | Album | 3.95 | 32 |
| 69 | 2002 | Under Construction | Missy Elliott | Album | 3.25 | 9 |
| 70 | 2005 | The Woods | Sleater‐Kinney | Album | 4.45 | 5 |
| 71 | 2002 | LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | Bright Eyes | Album | 5 | 8 |
| 72 | 2004 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Album | 4.2 | 21 |
| 73 | 2000 | Parachutes | Coldplay | Album | 4.05 | 32 |
| 74 | 2006 | Stadium Arcadium | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Album | 3.9 | 15 |
| 75 | 2007 | Neon Bible | Arcade Fire | Album | 3.95 | 20 |
| 76 | 2002 | ( ) | Sigur Rós | Album | 4.45 | 19 |
| 77 | 2000 | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out | Yo La Tengo | Album | 3.35 | 3 |
| 78 | 2005 | Illinois | Sufjan Stevens | Album | 4.9 | 12 |
| 79 | 2003 | Electric Version | The New Pornographers | Album | 4 | 10 |
| 80 | 2003 | Youth & Young Manhood | Kings of Leon | Album | 3.5 | 13 |
| 81 | 2001 | Gold | Ryan Adams | Album | 3.5 | 15 |
| 82 | 2000 | Rated R | Queens of the Stone Age | Album | 4 | 17 |
| 83 | 2008 | Attack & Release | The Black Keys | Album | 4.15 | 13 |
| 84 | 2002 | The Eminem Show | Eminem | Album | 3.85 | 20 |
| 85 | 2008 | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Coldplay | Album | 4.25 | 50 |
| 86 | 2003 | Give Up | The Postal Service | Album | 4.2 | 16 |
| 87 | 2006 | St. Elsewhere | Gnarls Barkley | Album | 4 | 15 |
| 88 | 2004 | SMiLE | Brian Wilson | Album | 4.15 | 8 |
| 89 | 2003 | Hail to the Thief | Radiohead | Album | 3.85 | 27 |
| 90 | 2004 | Dimanche à Bamako | Amadou & Mariam | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 91 | 2000 | Veni Vidi Vicious | The Hives | Album | 4.6 | 12 |
| 92 | 2007 | For Emma, Forever Ago | Bon Iver | Album | 4.65 | 13 |
| 93 | 2003 | Unearthed | Johnny Cash | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 94 | 2002 | Up the Bracket | The Libertines | Album | 4 | 12 |
| 95 | 2001 | Songs in A Minor | Alicia Keys | Album | 4.65 | 31 |
| 96 | 2002 | Original Pirate Material | The Streets | Album | 3.35 | 6 |
| 97 | 2007 | Sky Blue Sky | Wilco | Album | 4 | 14 |
| 98 | 2006 | Return to Cookie Mountain | TV on the Radio | Album | 3.4 | 10 |
| 99 | 2004 | Almost Killed Me | The Hold Steady | Album | 3.65 | 6 |
| 100 | 2001 | Ten New Songs | Leonard Cohen | Album | 4.3 | 11 |
