Top Albums of 2005





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
95
Sufjan Stevens Illinois Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
2
289
Antony and The Johnsons I Am a Bird Now Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
3
336
M.I.A. Arular Electropop, UK Hip Hop
4
371
Kanye West Late Registration Hip Hop
5
469
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem Dance-Punk, Indietronica
6
563
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Indie Folk
7
578
Bloc Party Silent Alarm Post-Punk Revival
8
717
The National Alligator Post-Punk Revival
9
720
Sleater-Kinney The Woods Indie Rock
10
721
My Morning Jacket Z Indie Rock
11
794
Gorillaz Demon Days Trip Hop
12
1024
Sigur Rós Takk... Post-Rock
13
1063
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary Indie Rock
14
1103
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine Baroque Pop, Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
15
1130
Animal Collective Feels Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
16
1138
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy Indie Folk, Indie Rock
17
1144
Robyn Robyn Electropop
18
1241
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Indie Pop, Power Pop
19
1419
The Decemberists Picaresque Chamber Pop, Indie Folk
20
1566
The Hold Steady Separation Sunday Indie Rock, Pub Rock
21
1610
Spoon Gimme Fiction Indie Rock
22
1630
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan Alternative Rock, Garage Rock Revival
23
2047
Common Be Conscious Hip Hop
24
2064
Kate Bush Aerial Art Pop
25
2113
Beck Guero Alternative Rock
26
2202
Eels Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
27
2216
Konono No. 1 Congotronics Tradi-Modern
28
2277
Richard Hawley Coles Corner Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
29
2291
Jamie Lidell Multiply Blue Eyed Soul
30
2442
Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine Americana, Latin American Music
31
2457
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better Post-Punk Revival
32
2468
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Indie Rock
33
2488
Lil Wayne Tha Carter II Gangsta Rap
34
2514
Art Brut Bang Bang Rock and Roll Indie Rock
35
2558
Editors The Back Room Post-Punk Revival
36
2616
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
37
2673
Isolée We Are Monster Microhouse
38
2770
Low The Great Destroyer Indie Rock
39
2786
Madonna Confessions on a Dance Floor Dance-Pop, Nu-Disco
40
2787
Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Pop, Singer/Songwriter
41
2867
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Indie Rock
42
2948
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Progressive Rock

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
System of a Down Mezmerize Alternative Metal
Andrew Bird Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Kaiser Chiefs Employment Britpop, Indie Rock
Coldplay X&Y Britpop
Edan Beauty and the Beat Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Death Cab for Cutie Plans Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Vitalic OK Cowboy Electroclash
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze Alternative Rock, Stoner Rock
Broadcast Tender Buttons Indietronica
Boris Pink Noise Rock, Stoner Metal
Sr. Chinarro El fuego amigo Indie Pop
Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi Contemporary R&B, Pop
Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires Art Pop, Chamber Pop, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow Contemporary Folk
Tocotronic Pure vernunft darf niemals siegen Indie Rock
Deerhoof The Runners Four Experimental Rock
Babyshambles Down in Albion Indie Rock
Maxïmo Park A Certain Trigger Post-Punk Revival
The Go-Betweens Oceans Apart Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Jangle Pop
Wolfmother Wolfmother Hard Rock
DangerDoom The Mouse and the Mask Abstract Hip Hop
The Game The Documentary Gangsta Rap
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain Noise Rock
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase IDM
Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago Alternative Rock
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Hard Bop
Caribou The Milk of Human Kindness Indietronica, Psychedelic Pop
Depeche Mode Playing the Angel Synthpop
The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers Indie Pop
Goldfrapp Supernature Electropop, Synthpop
Vashti Bunyan Lookaftering Chamber Folk
Neil Young Prairie Wind Country Rock, Folk Rock
CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy Dance-Pop, Dance-Punk
Opeth Ghost Reveries Progressive Metal
CocoRosie Noah's Ark Folktronica, Freak Folk, Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins Indie Pop, Psychedelic Pop
Architecture in Helsinki In Case We Die Twee Pop
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl Blues Rock, Indie Rock
The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang Rock
Josh Rouse Nashville Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
The Kills No Wow Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney Superwolf Alt-Country, Contemporary Folk
M. Ward Transistor Radio Americana, Contemporary Folk
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart Indie Rock
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cold Roses Alt-Country, Americana
Elbow Leaders of the Free World Art Rock, Indie Rock
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Indietronica
The Chemical Brothers Push the Button Big Beat
Six Organs of Admittance School of the Flower American Primitivism, Psychedelic Folk
Doves Some Cities Britpop, Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth Alternative Rock, Industrial Rock
Martha Wainwright Martha Wainwright Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth Pop Rock
The Books Lost and Safe Experimental, Folktronica
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV Indie Rock
Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum Electropop, Synthpop
Out Hud Let Us Never Speak of It Again Dance-Punk
Tapes 'n Tapes The Loon Indie Rock
Loney, Dear Loney, Noir Twee Pop
M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us Dream Pop, Electronic
Tom Zé Estudando o pagode (na opereta segregamulher e amor) Art Pop, MPB
Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth Indie Rock
Four Tet Everything Ecstatic Electronic
Black Mountain Black Mountain Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock
Roots Manuva Awfully Deep UK Hip Hop
Brendan Benson The Alternative to Love Indie Pop, Power Pop
Archer Prewitt Wilderness Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Buck 65 This Right Here Is Buck 65 Hip Hop
British Sea Power Open Season Post-Punk Revival
Teenage Fanclub Man-Made Jangle Pop, Power Pop
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas Abstract Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Iron & Wine Woman King EP Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
The Darkness One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back Hard Rock
Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust Conscious Hip Hop
The Rakes Capture/Release Post-Punk Revival
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Contemporary Folk, Film Soundtrack, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Mercury Rev The Secret Migration Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Maria Taylor 11:11 Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter