Best albums of the 2000s
The industry lost control of distribution and the music got stranger for it. Blogs did the job radio used to do. The South took the charts outright, and Kanye West began a run of reinventions that outlasted the decade he started it in.
According to Riffiter listeners, the best album of the 2000s is The Sound of The Smiths by The Smiths, rated 4.5/5 by 40 listeners.
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Build a list or tier of your ownThe 2000s, year by year
Ten years, three records each. Every heading opens that year in full.
Best albums of 2002
4,733 albums
Best albums of 2003
5,203 albums
Best albums of 2005
6,317 albums
Best albums of 2006
7,529 albums
Best albums of 2007
7,368 albums
Best albums of 2008
7,749 albums
Best albums of the 2000s by genre
The genres that carried the period here, each with what listeners rate highest inside it.
Best Rock albums of the 2000s
9,923 albums from the 2000s
Best Pop albums of the 2000s
5,720 albums from the 2000s
Best Electronic albums of the 2000s
4,767 albums from the 2000s
Best Hip-Hop albums of the 2000s
4,744 albums from the 2000s
Best Jazz albums of the 2000s
4,720 albums from the 2000s
The artists of the 2000s
Everyone who put a record out then, ordered by how listeners rate their catalog rather than by that one release.
