Best Albums of The 21st Century

Entering the 21st CDs were still the main source to listen to tunes, but the rise of Napster and file sharing networks would soon change the game. Along with this shift, musical styles and compositions also changed, and bands adjusted to a market that could consume music with the click of a mouse. More complex albums emerged, ones that tinkered with their own new technologies.

To chronicle the past two decades, Stacker compiled data on the top 100 albums of the 21st century according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and performance on 40,000 editorial and data-based charts, e.g., Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, and more. The Best Ever Albums score, as of Aug. 2, 2021, is derived from a formula that weighs how many charts an album has appeared on and how high it was on each of those charts, and awards points accordingly.


What is BestEverAlbums.com?

BestEverAlbums.com is a website that aggregates over 50,000 greatest album charts to provide an easy way for visitors to look up and find out the greatest albums in history.

How big is this website?

BestEverAlbums.com was founded in 2005, and has over 50,000 members. To date, our members have submitted 50,000 charts, consisting of 200,000 different albums, 2 million tracks, and 80,000 artists. In addition, our members have submitted around 8 million ratings, 300,000 comments and 600,000 forum posts.



And here is the chart:

https://stacker.com/stories/4750/100-best-albums-21st-century


Notable entries based on our forumites here at talku2 chat etc.

No.8 - The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
No.3 - Funeral - Arcade Fire

No.82 - Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

Radiohead:

No.95 - The King of Limbs
No.43 - Hail To The Thief
No.26  - Amnesiac
No.14 - A Moon Shaped Pool
No.2 - In Rainbows
No.1 - Kid A

U2 albums in chart: None

Careful.....you're treading into somewon else's territory.....

A few notes:

- Arcade Fire has 2 more on the list, so 4 albums total.

- Coldplay (a band we discuss often here) has 3 albums on the list.

- U2 is featured on D.A.M.N   

That list is actually pretty good. I didn't see too many serious omissions, although I do feel that Wincing the Night Away by The Shins and The '59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem should have been on there. Aside from that it's quite solid.

Revelator by Gillian Welch should be on here imo.