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100 Greatest Albums of 2003

Criteria: These music albums from the year 2003 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on rock music in general. Also considered is critical acclaim. The list includes rock and roll and related genres that were influential on rock music.
Top 100 Albums by Year:
Note: Yearly album lists go by earliest 'release date'.
Not necessarily the year an album peaked in the U.S. charts.
  1. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast
  2. Elephant - The White Stripes
  3. The Diary Of Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys
  4. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
  5. The Black Album - Jay-Z
  6. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
  7. Dangerously In Love - Beyoncé
  8. Meteora - Linkin Park
  9. Fallen - Evanescence
10. The Wind - Warren Zevon
11. Chocolate Factory - R. Kelly
12. Boy in da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
13. Give Up - The Postal Service
14. Chicken-N-Beer - Ludacris
15. De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
16. Absolution - Muse
17. Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
18. Fever to Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
19. Permission to Land - The Darkness
20. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
21. Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne
22. Elephunk - The Black Eyed Peas
23. Bazooka Tooth - Aesop Rock
24. Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle
25. Room on Fire - The Strokes
26. Try This - Pink
27. Echoes - The Rapture
28. Think Tank - Blur
29. Thankful - Kelly Clarkson
30. Sing the Sorrow - AFI
31. This is Not a Test! - Missy Elliott
32. The Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot
33. Final Straw - Snow Patrol
34. Everything Must Go - Steely Dan
35. Deja Etendu - Brand New
36. Hearts of Oak - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
37. The Meadowlands - The Wrens
38. Fire - Electric Six
39. Deftones - Deftones
40. Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx
41. The Artist in the Ambulance - Thrice
42. Decoration Day - Drive-By Truckers
43. Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
44. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
45. Body Language - Kylie Minogue
46. Her Majesty - The Decemberists
47. The Soul Sessions - Joss Stone
48. Burn, Piano Island, Burn - The Blood Brothers
49. 14 Shades of Grey - Staind
50. It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket
51. Reality - David Bowie
52. Streetcore - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
53. Blink-182 - Blink-182
54. 100th Window - Massive Attack
55. Long Knives Drawn - Rainer Maria
56. Sleeping with Ghosts - Placebo
57. Guitar Romantic - The Exploding Hearts
58. The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) - The Fall
59. Electric Version - The New Pornographers
60. D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat - Junior Senior
61. I Can't Stop - Al Green
62. Sound of the Underground - Girls Aloud
63. Here Comes the Indian - Animal Collective
64. Earthquake Glue - Guided by Voices
65. Phantom Power - Super Furry Animals
66. Seven's Travels - Atmosphere
67. Rock 'n' Roll - Ryan Adams
68. War All the Time - Thursday
69. The Ugly Organ - Cursive
70. Haha Sound - Broadcast
71. Faceless - Godsmack
72. Chariot - Gavin DeGraw
73. Youth & Young Manhood - Kings of Leon
74. Thickfreakness - The Black Keys
75. Keep it Together - Guster
76. Rooney - Rooney
77. Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt
78. Tasty - Kelis
79. Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace
80. The Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power
81. A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar - Dashboard Confessional
82. Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans
83. Joe Budden - Joe Budden
84. Mary Star of the Sea - Zwan
85. As the Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!
86. Frengers - Mew
87. Three - Sugababes
88. Unclassified - Robert Randolph and the Family Band
89. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed & Cambria
90. Good Mourning - Alkaline Trio
91. Chain Gang of Love - The Ravonettes
92. The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
93. Blackout - Dropkick Murphys
94. Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
95. The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
96. You Are Free - Cat Power
97. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts - M83
98. The Vertigo of Bliss - Biffy Clyro
99. The New Romance - Pretty Girls Make Graves
100. The Old Kit Bag - Richard Thompson
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast album cover
Elephant White Stripes album cover
The Diary Of Alicia Keys album cover
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 50 Cent album cover
The Black Album Jay-Z album cover
Hail To The Thief Radiohead album cover
Dangerously In Love Beyoncé album cover
 DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 2003
  Ryan's choice - An unheralded great album from 2003
 •  From the Attic - Damone
  Brett's choice:
 •  What Happened To The? - The Jessica Fletchers
  Lew's choice:
 •  Day I Forgot - Pete Yorn




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