100 Greatest Albums of 2007

2007 record album covers for In Rainbows, Graduation, Neon Bible, and Sound of Silver
Criteria: These music albums from the year 2007 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.

Note: Yearly album lists go by earliest 'release date'.
Not necessarily the year an album peaked in the U.S. charts.
  1. In Rainbows - Radiohead
  2. Graduation - Kanye West
  3. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
  4. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
  5. Kala - M.I.A.
  6. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
  7. American Gangster - Jay-Z
  8. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
  9. Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
10. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
11. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
12. Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
13. Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails
14. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters
15. As I Am - Alicia Keys
16. Lupe Fiasco's The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
17. Person Pitch - Panda Bear
18. Silent Shout - The Knife
19. Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna
20. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
21. The Reminder - Feist
22. It Won't Be Soon Before Long - Maroon 5
23. From Here We Go Sublime - The Field
24. Boxer - The National
25. Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
26. Cross - Justice
27. Cease to Begin - Band of Horses
28. Mirrored - Battles
29. Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age
30. Cassadaga - Bright Eyes
31. Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant - Wyclef Jean
32. The Best Damn Thing - Avril Lavinge
33. Colors - Between the Buried and Me
34. Infinity on High - Fall Out Boy
35. The Con - Tegan and Sara
36. We'll Never Turn Back - Mavis Staples
37. All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone - Explosions in the Sky
38. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
39. Getback - Little Brother
40. Riot! - Paramore
41. Wincing the Night Away - The Shins
42. Puzzle - Biffy Clyro
43. None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
44. Beyond - Dinosaur Jr.
45. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
46. Long Road Out of Eden - Eagles
47. I'll Sleep When You're Dead - El-P
48. New Wave - Against Me!
49. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - Of Montreal
50. Minutes to Midnight - Linkin Park
51. Introducing Joss Stone - Joss Stone
52. Memory Almost Full - Paul McCartney
53. Easy Tiger - Ryan Adams
54. Underground Kingz - UGK
55. Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika
56. Young Modern - Silverchair
57. White Chalk - PJ Harvey
58. Volta - Bjork
59. Planet Earth - Prince
60. Sweet Warrior - Richard Thompson
61. Made of Bricks - Kate Nash
62. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron & Wine
63. How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? - Public Enemy
64. The Good, the Bad and the Queen - The Good the Bad and the Queen
65. Snakes & Arrows - Rush
66. Love/Hate - The-Dream
67. Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
68. On Letting Go - Circa Survive
69. Little Voice - Sara Bareilles
70. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
71. Finding Forever - Common
72. The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse - The Besnard Lakes
73. Black Rain - Ozzy Osbourne
74. Just Like You - Keyshia Cole
75. Timbaland Presents Shock Value - Timbaland
76. New Moon - Elliott Smith
77. Scene of the Crime - Bettye LaVette
78. Lady's Bridge - Richard Hawley
79. Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
80. The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 - Jill Scott
81. Witchcult Today - Electric Wizard
82. Overpowered - Róisín Murphy
83. Luvanmusiq - Musiq Soulchild
84. Not Too Late - Norah Jones
85. The Needles The Space - Straylight Run
86. From Nothin' to Somethin' - Fabolous
87. Myths of the Near Future - Klaxons
88. Because of the Times - Kings of Leon
89. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow - Coheed & Cambria
90. Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad
91. Ghosts - Siobhán Donaghy
92. My December - Kelly Clarkson
93. Libertad - Velvet Revolver
94. Chase This Light - Jimmy Eat World
95. The Stage Names - Okkervil River
96. A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party
97. Marry Me - St. Vincent
98. Somewhere in the Between - Streetlight Manifesto
99. Strange House - The Horrors
100. Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
In Rainbows Radiohead album cover
Graduation Kanye West album cover
Neon Bible Arcade Fire album cover
Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem album cover
Kala M.I.A. album cover
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Modest Mouse album cover
American Gangster Jay-Z album cover
 DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 2007
  Ryan's choice - An unheralded great album from 2007
 •  In Advance of the Broken Arm - Marnie Stern
  Lew's choice:
 •  The Divine Conspiracy - Epica


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