The following table displays the highest-scoring albums for the year in Metacritic's database with a minimum of 7 reviews. Also listed at the bottom of the page are year-end top ten lists provided by various critics and publications.
Village Voice 2000 Pazz & Jop Poll (a survey of 695 critics)
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| 1 |
Stankonia by OutKast |
| 2 |
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey |
| 3 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 4 |
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem |
| 5 |
I Am Shelby Lynne by Shelby Lynne |
| 6 |
Voodoo by D'Angelo |
| 7 |
All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2 |
| 8 |
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo |
| 9 |
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 by Jill Scott |
| 10 |
All Hands On The Bad One by Sleater-Kinney |
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| Entertainment Weekly (Browne) |
| 1 |
Come To Where I'm From by Joseph Arthur |
| 2 |
All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2 |
| 3 |
Bachelor No. 2 or, the last remains of the dodo by Aimee Mann |
| 4 |
The Man Who by Travis |
| 5 |
Gung Ho by Patti Smith |
| 6 |
Like Water For Chocolate by Common |
| 7 |
The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy |
| 8 |
American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash |
| 9 |
Installation Sonore by Rinocerose |
| 10 |
Whoa, Nelly! by Nelly Furtado |
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| Entertainment Weekly (Sinclair) |
| 1 |
Guest Host by Stew |
| 2 |
Redysexgo by Marvelous 3 |
| 3 |
Stankonia by OutKast |
| 4 |
Eat At Whitey's by Everlast |
| 5 |
Chappaquiddick Skyline by Chappaquiddick Skyline |
| 6 |
Renegades by Rage Against The Machine |
| 7 |
Rancid by Rancid |
| 8 |
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo |
| 9 |
I Am Shelby Lynne by Shelby Lynne |
| 10 |
Elementary Headcoats: Thee Singles 1990-1999 by Thee Headcoats |
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| Ink Blot |
| 1 |
XTRMNTR by Primal Scream |
| 2 |
Bachelor No. 2 or, the last remains of the dodo by Aimee Mann |
| 3 |
Like Water For Chocolate by Common |
| 4 |
Stankonia by OutKast |
| 5 |
Train Of Thought by Reflection Eternal |
| 6 |
Voodoo by D'Angelo |
| 7 |
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 by Jill Scott |
| 8 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 9 |
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo |
| 10 |
The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy |
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| Los Angeles Times (Consensus) |
| 1 |
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem |
| 2 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 3 |
I Am Shelby Lynne by Shelby Lynne |
| 4 |
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey |
| 5 |
All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2 |
| 6 |
Stankonia by OutKast |
| 7 |
Voodoo by D'Angelo |
| 8 |
Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris |
| 9 |
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols |
| 10 |
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 by Jill Scott |
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| Mojo |
| 1 |
American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash |
| 2 |
Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age |
| 3 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 4 |
Bachelor No. 2 or, the last remains of the dodo by Aimee Mann |
| 5 |
The Great Eastern by The Delgados |
| 6 |
You're The One by Paul Simon |
| 7 |
Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris |
| 8 |
The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy |
| 9 |
Little Black Numbers by Kathryn Williams |
| 10 |
Nixon by Lambchop |
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| Pitchfork |
| 1 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 2 |
Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós |
| 3 |
The Moon And Antarctica by Modest Mouse |
| 4 |
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo |
| 5 |
Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor! |
| 6 |
The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy |
| 7 |
It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water by Microphones |
| 8 |
Rome (Written Upside Down) EP by Les Savy Fav |
| 9 |
Internal Wrangler by Clinic |
| 10 |
Dongs Of Sevotion by Smog |
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| Select Magazine |
| 1 |
The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy |
| 2 |
XTRMNTR by Primal Scream |
| 3 |
The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy |
| 4 |
Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor! |
| 5 |
Parachutes by Coldplay |
| 6 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 7 |
Nixon by Lambchop |
| 8 |
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem |
| 9 |
Madonna by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead |
| 10 |
Lost Souls by Doves |
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| Spin |
| 1 |
[Your hard drive] |
| 2 |
Kid A by Radiohead |
| 3 |
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem |
| 4 |
Voodoo by D'Angelo |
| 5 |
Relationship Of Command by At The Drive-In |
| 6 |
Stankonia by OutKast |
| 7 |
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey |
| 8 |
Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age |
| 9 |
Killing Puritans by Armand Van Helden |
| 10 |
Le Tigre by Le Tigre |
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