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2011: 5 (2 albums)

D - White Denim

21 - Adele

2019: 5 (1)

GREY Area - Little Simz

2020: 4.5 (2)

Untitled (Black Is) - SAULT

evermore - Taylor Swift

2006: 3.8 (5)

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera

Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

Ys - Joanna Newsom

1957: 3.6 (5)

Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk

Here's Little Richard - Little Richard

Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis

Palo Congo - Sabu

Kenya - Machito

1971: 3.53 (15)

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

Fragile - Yes

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Pearl - Janis Joplin

Tapestry - Carole King

Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Trafalgar - Bee Gees

Tago Mago - Can

Teenage Head - Flamin' Groovies

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Pictures At An Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

White Light - Gene Clark

1959: 3.5 (4)

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs - Marty Robbins

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

The Genius Of Ray Charles - Ray Charles

1960: 3.5 (2)

Joan Baez - Joan Baez

At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters

2002: 3.44 (9)

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

Under Construction - Missy Elliott

The Coral - The Coral

Stripped - Christina Aguilera

Highly Evolved - The Vines

Power In Numbers - Jurassic 5

The Last Broadcast - Doves

1999: 3.43 (14)

Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

Slipknot - Slipknot

The Man Who - Travis

S&M - Metallica

The Slim Shady LP - Eminem

Play - Moby

Make Yourself - Incubus

Beyond Skin - Nitin Sawhney

Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Apple Venus Volume 1 - XTC

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

The Contino Sessions - Death In Vegas

Post Orgasmic Chill - Skunk Anansie

Remedy - Basement Jaxx

1967: 3.4 (10)

Triangle - The Beau Brummels

Headquarters - The Monkees

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes

Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks

Disraeli Gears - Cream

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin

Beach Samba - Astrud Gilberto

The Doors - The Doors

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

1995: 3.4 (10)

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

Leftism - Leftfield

Liquid Swords - GZA

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

The Bends - Radiohead

Timeless - Goldie

Smokers Delight - Nightmares On Wax

Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

2003: 3.4 (5)

Elephant - The White Stripes

Hail To the Thief - Radiohead

Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Frank - Amy Winehouse

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

1994: 3.38 (16)

Dookie - Green Day

Illmatic - Nas

MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

Smash - The Offspring

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Tical - Method Man

Parklife - Blur

Protection - Massive Attack

Superunknown - Soundgarden

Snivilisation - Orbital

The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

Vauxhall And I - Morrissey

Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.

Dummy - Portishead

2008: 3.33 (6)

Third - Portishead

Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

The Renaissance - Q-Tip

Only By The Night - Kings of Leon

All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot

1977: 3.3 (10)

Hard Again - Muddy Waters

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello

Zombie - Fela Kuti

Low - David Bowie

Heroes - David Bowie

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Pink Flag - Wire

2005: 3.25 (4)

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Be - Common

Coles Corner - Richard Hawley

Arular - M.I.A.

2010: 3.25 (4)

The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe

High Violet - The National

Queen Of Denmark - John Grant

Brothers - The Black Keys

2001: 3.22 (9)

White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

The Blueprint - JAY Z

Hot Shots II - The Beta Band

Survivor - Destiny's Child

Is This It - The Strokes

Vespertine - Björk

La Revancha Del Tango - Gotan Project

Your New Favourite Band - The Hives

1990: 3.2 (10)

Sex Packets - Digital Underground

Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins

Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys

Ritual De Lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

World Clique - Deee-Lite

Repeater - Fugazi

Goo - Sonic Youth

2000: 3.18 (11)

Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

Kid A - Radiohead

Welcome to the Afterfuture - Mike Ladd

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

Figure 8 - Elliott Smith

Parachutes - Coldplay

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water - Limp Bizkit

Mama's Gun - Erykah Badu

Sincere - Mj Cole

Since I Left You - The Avalanches

1998: 3.17 (12)

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

This Is Hardcore - Pulp

Clandestino - Manu Chao

You've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim

System Of A Down - System Of A Down

Follow The Leader - Korn

Moon Safari - Air

Apocalypse Dudes - Turbonegro

Celebrity Skin - Hole

Ray Of Light - Madonna

Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

1966: 3.17 (6)

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Aftermath - The Rolling Stones

Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone

Revolver - Beatles

Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders

Fifth Dimension - The Byrds

1985: 3.17 (6)

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Hunting High And Low - a-ha

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

1965: 3.14 (7)

My Generation - The Who

Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

Here Are the Sonics - The Sonics

Rubber Soul - Beatles

The Beach Boys Today! - The Beach Boys

1969: 3.12 (17)

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Happy Sad - Tim Buckley

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Live / Dead - Grateful Dead

Tommy - The Who

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Abbey Road - Beatles

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield

Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival

At San Quentin - Johnny Cash

Oar - Alexander 'Skip' Spence

The Gilded Palace Of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers

Songs From A Room - Leonard Cohen

Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service

1968: 3 (16)

Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso

Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

White Light / White Heat - The Velvet Underground

Traffic - Traffic

The White Album - Beatles

We're Only In It For The Money - The Mothers Of Invention

Cheap Thrills - Big Brother & The Holding Company

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces

Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

Truth - Jeff Beck

1974: 3 (10)

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard Thompson

Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder

Kimono My House - Sparks

Crime Of The Century - Supertramp

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

Sheet Music - 10cc

Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton

It's Too Late to Stop Now - Van Morrison

2009: 3 (8)

It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Two Dancers - Wild Beasts

xx - The xx

Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan

Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

1983: 3 (7)

Murmur - R.E.M.

Pyromania - Def Leppard

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Eliminator - ZZ Top

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Synchronicity - The Police

2017: 3 (5)

Melodrama - Lorde

Drunk - Thundercat

Modern Kosmology - Jane Weaver

Take Me Apart - Kelela

american dream - LCD Soundsystem

1958: 3 (3)

Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Lady In Satin - Billie Holiday

Dance Mania - Tito Puente

2015: 3 (3)

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

25 - Adele

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

1956: 3 (2)

Tragic Songs of Life - The Louvin Brothers

Ellington at Newport - Duke Ellington

2007: 3 (2)

Cross - Justice

Kala - M.I.A.

2018: 3 (1)

Microshift - Hookworms

1996: 2.93 (15)

Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise

Casanova - The Divine Comedy

1977 - Ash

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

Roots - Sepultura

First Band On The Moon - The Cardigans

Now I Got Worry - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow

Come Find Yourself - Fun Lovin' Criminals

Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl

Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab

Beautiful Freak - Eels

Tidal - Fiona Apple

2004: 2.92 (12)

Penance Soiree - The Icarus Line

The College Dropout - Kanye West

Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine - Cee Lo Green

Who Killed...... The Zutons? - The Zutons

The Libertines - The Libertines

Medúlla - Björk

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars

Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - TV On The Radio

American Idiot - Green Day

Hot Fuss - The Killers

1975: 2.89 (9)

Mothership Connection - Parliament

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Another Green World - Brian Eno

Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson

The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith

NEU! 75 - Neu!

Go Girl Crazy - The Dictators

1997: 2.83 (12)

New Forms - Roni Size

Homework - Daft Punk

The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Either Or - Elliott Smith

Blur - Blur

Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers

Let's Get Killed - David Holmes

Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney

Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott

1970: 2.77 (13)

John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon

The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival

McCartney - Paul McCartney

Live At Leeds - The Who

Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens

Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar

Third - Soft Machine

Close To You - Carpenters

Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple

1979: 2.73 (11)

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

The Specials - The Specials

Fear Of Music - Talking Heads

Movies - Holger Czukay

Risque - CHIC

London Calling - The Clash

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

Pretenders - Pretenders

At Budokan - Cheap Trick

1989: 2.73 (11)

L'Eau Rouge - The Young Gods

3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

Disintegration - The Cure

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson

The Real Thing - Faith No More

Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3

Doolittle - Pixies

90 - 808 State

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman - John Zorn

1993: 2.73 (11)

Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair

New Wave - The Auteurs

In Utero - Nirvana

Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg

Orbital 2 - Orbital

Bubble And Scrape - Sebadoh

Wild Wood - Paul Weller

Giant Steps - The Boo Radleys

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - Girls Against Boys

Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey

Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur

1991: 2.67 (9)

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Arise - Sepultura

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - Mudhoney

Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne

Achtung Baby - U2

Blue Lines - Massive Attack

Peggy Suicide - Julian Cope

Step In The Arena - Gang Starr

Nevermind - Nirvana

1964: 2.67 (3)

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg - Jerry Lee Lewis

A Hard Day's Night - Beatles

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz

2014: 2.67 (3)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

LP1 - FKA twigs

1989 - Taylor Swift

1973: 2.62 (13)

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

Solid Air - John Martyn

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

Next - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) - Lynyrd Skynyrd

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Mott - Mott The Hoople

Raw Power - The Stooges

1984: 2.6 (5)

Immigrés - Youssou N'Dour

A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile

Ocean Rain - Echo And The Bunnymen

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

Private Dancer - Tina Turner

2016: 2.5 (2)

Blackstar - David Bowie

You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen

1976: 2.44 (9)

2112 - Rush

Music From The Penguin Cafe - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Station To Station - David Bowie

Hotel California - Eagles

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Ramones - Ramones

Boston - Boston

Africa Brasil - Jorge Ben Jor

Arrival - ABBA

1992: 2.43 (14)

Copper Blue - Sugar

KE*A*H** (Psalm 69) - Ministry

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

Dry - PJ Harvey

Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... - Arrested Development

Connected - Stereo MC's

Dirt - Alice In Chains

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury - The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

Slanted And Enchanted - Pavement

Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized

Ingenue - k.d. lang

1972: 2.36 (11)

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Eagles - Eagles

Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Manassas - Stephen Stills

Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan

Slayed? - Slade

Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

School's Out - Alice Cooper

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

1988: 2.36 (11)

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine

16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens

...And Justice For All - Metallica

I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen

Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys

Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction

If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues

Green - R.E.M.

Shadowland - k.d. lang

Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

1963: 2.33 (3)

With The Beatles - Beatles

Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

2012: 2.33 (3)

good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar

Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

Blunderbuss - Jack White

1980: 2.25 (12)

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Back In Black - AC/DC

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen

Sound Affects - The Jam

Songs The Lord Taught Us - The Cramps

Closer - Joy Division

Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants

Seventeen Seconds - The Cure

Ace of Spades - Motörhead

Peter Gabriel 3 - Peter Gabriel

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners

1981: 2.22 (9)

Damaged - Black Flag

Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten

Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

Fire Of Love - The Gun Club

Beauty And The Beat - The Go-Go's

Architecture And Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

The Poet - Bobby Womack

Mask - Bauhaus

Wild Gift - X

1978: 2.21 (14)

Van Halen - Van Halen

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The Cars - The Cars

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

The Man Machine - Kraftwerk

Parallel Lines - Blondie

Eternally Yours - The Saints

C'est Chic - CHIC

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo - Devo

Shalimar - Rahul Dev Burman

Real Life - Magazine

Ambient 1/Music For Airports - Brian Eno

The Only Ones - The Only Ones

1986: 2.2 (5)

The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk

E.V.O.L. - Sonic Youth

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Rapture - Anita Baker

1987: 2.06 (16)

Floodland - Sisters Of Mercy

Faith - George Michael

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby - Terence Trent D'Arby

Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths

Bad - Michael Jackson

Sister - Sonic Youth

Calenture - The Triffids

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses

The Joshua Tree - U2

Document - R.E.M.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories - Hüsker Dü

Trio - Dolly Parton

You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.

The New Tango - Astor Piazzolla

Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Among The Living - Anthrax

1982: 2 (6)

1999 - Prince

Junkyard - The Birthday Party

Sulk - The Associates

The Rise & Fall - Madness

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

Rip It Up - Orange Juice

1955: 2 (1)

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra