Updates:

1. •  Pieta Brown: Mercury (2011)
   

2. •  Vampire Weekend: Contra (2010)
   

3. •  Javiera Mena: Mena (2010)
   

4. •  Kelis: Flesh Tone (2010)
   

5. •  Maxwell: Blacksummers’night (2009)
   

2011:

01. The Roots: Undun

02. Me’Shell NdegeOcéllo: Weather

03. Gillian Welch: The Harrow and the Harvest

04. Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, Ultra Mixtape

05. Pistol Annies: Hell on Heels

06. Tom Waits: Bad as Me (Deluxe Edition)

07. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake

08. Fucked Up: David Comes to Life
09. Beyoncé: 4 (Deluxe Edition)

10. Tyler, the Creator: Goblin
11. Kanye West/Jay-Z: Watch the Throne
12. Colin Stetson: New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges

13. Lucinda Williams: Blessed

14. Rihanna: Talk That Talk

15. Pieta Brown: Mercury

2010:

01. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

02. King Sunny Adé: Bábá mo túndé

03. Various Artists: Africa: 50 Years of Music

04. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh

05. The Roots: How I Got Over

06. The-Dream: Love King

07. Lizz Wright: Fellowship

08. M.I.A.: Maya (Deluxe Edition)

09. Vampire Weekend: Contra

10. Taylor Swift: Speak Now (Deluxe Edition)

11. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday (Deluxe Edition)

12. Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté: Ali and Toumani

13. Aaron Neville: I Know I Been Changed

14. Javiera Mena: Mena

15. Kelis: Flesh Tone

Decade—2009 - 2000:

01. The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat

02. Kanye West: Late Registration

03. Youssou N’Dour: Egypt

04. Radiohead: Kid A

05. William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops I-IV

06. M.I.A.: Kala (Bonus Track Version)

07. Lucinda Williams: West

08. The Roots: Phrenology

09. Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)

10. Bob Dylan: Modern Times

11. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (Deluxe Edition)

12. Kanye West: The College Dropout

13. Rokia Traoré: Bowmboï

14. Youssou N’Dour: Nothing’s in Vain

15. Orchestra Baobab: Specialist in All Styles

16. Outkast: Stankonia

17. Patty Loveless: Mountain Soul

18. Hank Williams III: Straight to Hell

19. D’Angelo: Voodoo

20. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

2009:

01. Brad Paisley: American Saturday Night

02. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca

03. Rihanna: Rated R

04. Miranda Lambert: Revolution

05. Maxwell: Blacksummers’night

06. Girls: Album (Bonus Track Version)

07. Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen: Inspiration Information 4

08. Sonic Youth: The Eternal

09. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2

10. Mos Def: The Ecstatic

11. Oumou Sangare: Seya

12. Vieux Farka Touré: Fondo

13. Roberto Fonseca: Akokan

14. Rokia Traoré: Tchamantché

15. John Talabot: My Old School EP

2008:

01. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (Deluxe Edition)

02. Nina Simone: To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

03. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

04. Taylor Swift: Fearless

05. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

06. Orchestra Baobab: Made in Dakar

07. Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali
08. Portishead: Third

09. Les Amazones de Guinée: Wamato
10. Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers

11. Fennesz: Black Sea (Vinyl Version)

12. Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs

13. Girls Aloud: Out of Control

14. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War)

15. The Roots: Rising Down

2007:

01. M.I.A.: Kala (Limited Edition)

02. Lucinda Williams: West

03. Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

04. Trisha Yearwood: Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love

05. Burial: Untrue

06. Lil Wayne: Da Drought 3 Mixtape

07. Radiohead: In Rainbows

08. Youssou N’Dour: Rokku Mi Rokka
09. Sunny Sweeney: Heartbreaker’s Hall of Fame

10. Patty Griffin: Children Running Through

11. Bettye LaVette: The Scene of the Crime

12. Feist: The Reminder

13. Panda Bear: Person Pitch

14. Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad

15. Supersilent: 8

2006:

01. Bob Dylan: Modern Times

02. Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
03. Hank Williams III: Straight to Hell

04. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury

05. The Roots: Game Theory

06. Todd Snider: The Devil You Know

07. Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

08. Javiera Mena: Esquemas Juveniles

09. Francisco Mela: Melao

10. Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit

11. Solomon Burke: Nashville

12. TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain

13. Vakill: Worst Fears Confirmed

14. Beyoncé: B’Day

15. The Knife: Silent Shout

2005:

01. Kanye West: Late Registration
02. Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine (Bootleg)
03. Various Artists: Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to Another

04. Sleater-Kinney: The Woods

05. M.I.A.: Arular

06. Shelby Lynne: Suit Yourself

07. Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers

08. Animal Collective: Feels

09. Kate Bush: Aerial
10. Patrick Wolf: Wind in the Wires
11. The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday

12. Gorillaz: Demon Days
13. Danger Doom: The Mouse and the Mask
14. Patty Loveless: Dreaming My Dreams
15. Lee Ann Womack: There’s More Where That Came From

2004:

01. The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat

02. Youssou N’Dour: Egypt
03. Kanye West: The College Dropout

04. Usher: Confessions

05. Mos Def: The New Danger
06. Sam Phillips: A Boot and a Shoe

07. Cam’ron: Purple Haze

08. Todd Snider: East Nashville Skyline

09. Allison Moorer: The Duel

10. Ghostface: The Pretty Toney Album

11. David Darling & Wulu Bunun: Mudanin Kata

12. Iris DeMent: Lifeline

13. Feist: Let It Die

14. Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South

15. Mamadou Diabaté: Behmanka

2003:

01. William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops I-IV

02. Rokia Traoré: Bowmboï
03. Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner

04. The Cardigans: Long Gone Before Daylight

05. Erykah Badu: Worldwide Underground
06. Oumou Sangare: Oumou

07. Vijay Iyer Quartet: Blood Sutra

08. Vakill: The Darkest Cloud

09. Wanda Jackson: Heart Trouble

10. Café Tacvba: Cuatro Caminos

11. The Wrens: The Meadowlands

12. Liz Phair: Liz Phair

13. Madonna: American Life

14. Tindersticks: Waiting for the Moon

15. Missy Elliott: This Is Not a Test!

2002:

01. The Roots: Phrenology

02. Youssou N’Dour: Nothing’s in Vain

03. Orchestra Baobab: Specialist in All Styles
04. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Playthroughs

05. The Delgados: Hate

06. Beck: Sea Change

07. Mclusky: Do Dallas

08. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Source Tags & Codes

09. Solomon Burke: Don’t Give Up on Me

10. NRBQ: Atsa My Band

11. Nas: God’s Son

12. Deerhoof: Reveille

13. Sleater-Kinney: One Beat

14. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

15. Boards of Canada: Geogaddi

2001:

01. Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)

02. Patty Loveless: Mountain Soul

03. Jay-Z: The Blueprint
04. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

05. Lucinda Williams: Essence

06. Orland Cachaito López: Cachaito

07. Aaliyah: Aaliyah

08. Tindersticks: Trouble Every Day

09. Tindersticks: Can Our Love

10. Fugazi: The Argument

11. Bjork: Vespertine

12. Tricky: Blowback

13. Kylie Minogue: Fever

14. Fennesz: Endless Summer

15. Radiohead: Amnesiac

2000:

01. Radiohead: Kid A

02. Outkast: Stankonia

03. D’Angelo: Voodoo

04. Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica

05. Erykah Badu: Mama’s Gun

06. Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun

07. Sigur Ros: Ágætis byrjun

08. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

09. Nelly Furtado: Whoa, Nelly!

10. Sugababes: One Touch
11. Jill Scott: Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Music, Vol. 1

12. Merle Haggard: If I Could Only Fly

13. Allison Moorer: The Hardest Part

14. Sade: Lovers Rock

15. Sinéad O’Connor: Faith and Courage

1999:

01. The Roots: Things Fall Apart

02. Mos Def: Black on Both Sides

03. Randy Newman: Bad Love
04. The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs

05. Binary Star: Waterworld

06. Sleater-Kinney: The Hot Rock

07. Shelby Lynne: I Am Shelby Lynne

08. Gary Allan: Smoke Rings in the Dark

09. Willie Nelson: Night and Day

10. Latin Playboys: Dose
11. Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris: Western Wall
12. Eminem: The Slim Shady LP

13. Papa Wemba: Fula-Ngenge

14. Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabaté: Kulanjan
15. Kelis: Kaleidescope