La revista de música Rolling Stone publicó una lista de los 100 mejores álbumes de música rock y pop de la década.
La lista fue resultado de una encuesta realizada a 100 músicos y críticos de música, entre otros, Questlove (The Roots), Pelle Almqvist (The Hives), Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam), Nicholaus Arson (The Hives), Devendra Banhart, Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal), Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend), Guy Berryman (Coldplay), Mark Binelli (editor de Rolling Stone), Mary J. Blige, Nathan Brackett (editor general de Rolling Stone), Laurent Brancowitz (Phoenix), Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), David Browne (editor de Rolling Stone), Jonny Buckland (Coldplay), Solomon Burke, Cliff Burnstein, Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), Will Champion (Coldplay), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Robert Christgau, Jarvis Cocker, Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), Cameron Crowe, Missy Elliott, Bill Flanagan (MTV Networks), Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Mark Hoppus Blink-182; Nick Jonas de Jonas Brothers; Craig Kallman de Atlantic Records; Lenny Kaye de Patti Smith Group, Lenny Kravitz, Miranda Lambert, Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Yoko Ono; Will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) y Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys).
Aquí los 30 mejores álbumes:
- Radiohead: Kid A
- The Strokes: Is This It
- Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Jay-Z: The Blueprint
- The White Stripes: Elephant
- Arcade Fire: Funeral
- Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP
- Bob Dylan: Modern Times
- M.I.A.: Kala
- Kanye West: The College Dropout
- Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
- LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
- U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
- Jay-Z: The Black Album
- Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
- OutKast: Stankonia
- Beck: Sea Change
- MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
- Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
- The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
- Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
- Green Day: American Idiot
- D'Angelo: Voodoo
- Bruce Springsteen: Magic
- Radiohead: Amnesiac
- Cat Power: The Greatest
- The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
- Sigur Rós: Ágaetis Byrjun
- Radiohead: In Rainbows