Top Albums of 2006





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
127
Amy Winehouse Back to Black Pop, Rhythm & Blues, Soul
2
168
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Indie Rock
3
315
The Knife Silent Shout Electropop, Synthpop
4
329
Joanna Newsom Ys Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
5
368
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain Art Rock, Indie Rock
6
646
J Dilla [Jay Dee] Donuts Instrumental Hip Hop
7
700
Bob Dylan Modern Times Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
8
709
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds Dance-Pop
9
730
Cat Power The Greatest Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
10
785
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere Experimental Hip Hop, Neo-Soul
11
859
Hot Chip The Warning Electropop, Indietronica
12
879
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury Gangsta Rap
13
894
The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America Heartland Rock, Indie Rock, Pub Rock
14
917
Ghostface Killah Fishscale Hardcore Hip Hop
15
1217
Scott Walker The Drift Experimental, Singer/Songwriter
16
1221
Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Alt-Country, Americana, Singer/Songwriter
17
1223
Liars Drum's Not Dead Art Rock, Experimental Rock
18
1311
Burial Burial Dubstep, Future Garage
19
1317
Grizzly Bear Yellow House Indie Folk, Psychedelic Folk
20
1376
The Decemberists The Crane Wife Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Indie Pop
21
1386
Lily Allen Alright, Still Pop
22
1478
Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye Electropop, Synthpop
23
1498
Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit Chamber Pop
24
1505
Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther Americana, Folk Rock, Indie Folk
25
1656
Beirut Gulag Orkestar Indie Folk
26
1742
Muse Black Holes & Revelations Alternative Rock
27
1928
Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Letting Go Americana, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
28
1995
Thom Yorke The Eraser Indietronica
29
2025
Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
30
2026
Band of Horses Everything All the Time Indie Rock
31
2185
Camera Obscura Let's Get Out Of This Country Twee Pop
32
2420
Ali Farka Touré Savane Blues, Mande Music, Songhai Music
33
2433
M. Ward Post-War Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
34
2527
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Indie Rock
35
2529
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers Alternative Rock, Garage Rock Revival
36
2538
Girl Talk Night Ripper Mashup
37
2540
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped Indie Rock
38
2664
Gossip Standing in the Way of Control Dance-Punk
39
2690
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade Pop Punk
40
2772
The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine Indie Rock, Pop Punk
41
2807
Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions American Folk Music, Americana, Folk Rock
42
2880
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones Indie Rock
43
2918
Mastodon Blood Mountain Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
The Roots Game Theory Hip Hop
Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies Chamber Pop
Regina Spektor Begin to Hope Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block Indie Pop
Lupe Fiasco Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Conscious Hip Hop
Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways Americana
Guillemots Through the Windowpane Chamber Pop
Studio West Coast/Yearbook 1 Balearic Beat
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Progressive Pop
Phoenix It's Never Been Like That Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat Alt-Country
Bat for Lashes Fur and Gold Art Pop, Folktronica, Singer/Songwriter
Trentemøller The Last Resort Minimal Techno
Beyoncé B'Day Contemporary R&B, Pop
Sr. Chinarro El mundo según Indie Pop, Pop Rock
Built to Spill You in Reverse Indie Rock
Sally Shapiro Disco Romance Italo-Disco, Synthpop
Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra of Bubbles Glitch Pop, IDM
Booka Shade Movements Tech House
T.I. King Dirty South, Gangsta Rap
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam Alternative Rock, Hard Rock
John Mayer Continuum Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Califone Roots & Crowns Alt-Country, Psychedelic Folk
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium Alternative Rock
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet Ambient
Love Is All Nine Times That Same Song Twee Pop
The Pipettes We Are The Pipettes Girl Group, Indie Pop
Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards Indie Rock
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan Ballad of the Broken Seas Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
The Killers Sam's Town Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Spank Rock YOYOYOYOYO Hip Hop
Herbert Scale Art Pop, House
Scritti Politti White Bread Black Beer Sophisti-Pop
Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Britpop, Indie Pop
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint The River in Reverse Adult Contemporary, New Orleans R&B
Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar Free Jazz
Mogwai Mr. Beast Post-Rock
Standstill Vivalaguerra Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore
Tool 10,000 Days Alternative Metal, Progressive Rock
Donald Fagen Morph the Cat Jazz Pop, Soft Rock
Beck The Information Alternative Rock
Subtle For Hero: For Fool Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
Espers Espers II Psychedelic Folk
The Streets The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living UK Hip Hop
Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds Chamber Pop
My Morning Jacket Okonokos Indie Rock
The Long Blondes Someone to Drive You Home Indie Pop, Post-Punk Revival
The Dears Gang of Losers Indie Rock
Silversun Pickups Carnavas Indie Rock, Shoegaze
DJ Drama & Lil Wayne Dedication 2: Gangsta Grillz Gangsta Rap
Danielson Ships Indie Pop
Patrick Watson Close to Paradise Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Nelly Furtado Loose Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop
Rosanne Cash Black Cadillac Alt-Country, Contemporary Country
Damien Rice 9 Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
John Legend Once Again Neo-Soul
Neil Young Living with War Rock
Los Lobos The Town and the City Heartland Rock, Latin Rock, Tex-Mex
Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse Southern Rock
Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Carla Bozulich Evangelista Experimental, Singer/Songwriter
Lindsey Buckingham Under the Skin Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death Heavy Metal
Alejandro Escovedo The Boxing Mirror Alternative Rock
The Kooks Inside In / Inside Out Indie Pop, Indie Rock
New York Dolls One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This Glam Rock
The Coup Pick a Bigger Weapon Conscious Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way Country Pop, Pop Rock
Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Indie Pop, Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast Electronic, Experimental
PeterLicht Lieder vom Ende des Kapitalismus Electropop, Singer/Songwriter
Mission of Burma The Obliterati Post-Punk
Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah Dance-Pop
Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming Indie Rock
Nathan Fake Drowning in a Sea of Love IDM
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
Comets On Fire Avatar Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Brightblack Morning Light Brightblack Morning Light Neo-Psychedelia
Paul Simon Surprise Singer/Songwriter
J Dilla The Shining Hip Hop
Sunn O))) & Boris Altar Drone
Toumani Diabaté Boulevard de l'indépendence Mande Music
Kante Die Tiere sind unruhig Indie Rock
Howe Gelb Sno Angel Like You Alt-Country
12Twelve L'univers Free Jazz, Post-Rock
Islands Return to the Sea Indie Pop, Indie Rock
The Sleepy Jackson Personality: One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird Baroque Pop, Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Elvis Perkins Ash Wednesday Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided Art Rock, Indie Rock
Sparks Hello Young Lovers Art Pop, Chamber Pop
The DFA The DFA Remixes: Chapter One Dance-Punk, Electro-Disco
The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love Dance-Punk, Post-Punk Revival
Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky Neofolk
Gallows Orchestra of Wolves Hardcore Punk
The Fratellis Costello Music Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
Lambchop Damaged Chamber Pop
Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Juana Molina Son Folktronica, Singer/Songwriter
Isis In the Absence of Truth Atmospheric Sludge Metal
The Beatles Love Pop Rock
Kasabian Empire Alternative Dance, Indie Rock
OOIOO Taiga Experimental Rock
Converge No Heroes Mathcore
Fujiya & Miyagi Transparent Things Indietronica, Krautrock
Slayer Christ Illusion Thrash Metal
Man Man Six Demon Bag Experimental Rock
Wolf Eyes Human Animal Noise
Cursive Happy Hollow Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore
Pet Shop Boys Fundamental Synthpop
Beth Orton Comfort of Strangers Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Archie Bronson Outfit Derdang Derdang Blues Rock, Indie Rock
AFX Chosen Lords Acid Techno
Blumfeld Verbotene Früchte Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Plan B Who Needs Actions When You Got Words UK Hip Hop
Razorlight Razorlight Indie Rock, Pop Rock
Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Contemporary R&B, Pop Soul, Singer/Songwriter
Die Goldenen Zitronen Lenin Art Rock, Post-Punk
Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album Chamber Pop, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Nellie McKay Pretty Little Head Jazz Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Graham Coxon Love Travels at Illegal Speeds Britpop, Indie Rock
Bunbury & Vegas El tiempo de las cerezas Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Bert Jansch The Black Swan Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Kelley Stoltz Below the Branches Indie Pop, Piano Rock
Oneida Happy New Year Psychedelic Rock
Basement Jaxx Crazy Itch Radio Dance-Pop
Sway This Is My Demo UK Hip Hop
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes Post-Hardcore
Vetiver To Find Me Gone Folk Rock
Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops Indie Rock
Josh Rouse Subtítulo Folk Pop, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
The Young Knives Voices of Animals & Men Indie Rock
OutKast Idlewild Film Soundtrack, Hip Hop
Calexico Garden Ruin Alt-Country, Americana, Folk Rock
Jolie Holland Springtime Can Kill You Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Howling Bells Howling Bells Indie Rock
120 Days 120 Days Indietronica
The Handsome Family Last Days of Wonder Alt-Country
The Futureheads News and Tributes Post-Punk Revival
The Rifles No Love Lost Indie Rock, Power Pop
Candi Staton His Hands Soul
The Mountain Goats Get Lonely Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter