HMV's Poll of Polls

1998	Beastie Boys	Hello Nasty
2nd: Air – Moon Safari
3rd: Massive Attack – Mezzanine
4th: Gomez – Bring It On
5th: Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
[5]
1999	Basement Jaxx	Remedy
2nd: The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
3rd: Death in Vegas – The Contino Sessions
4th: The Beta Band – The Beta Band
5th: Missy Elliott – Da Real World
[11]
2000	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP
2nd: Radiohead – Kid A
3rd: Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
4th: Kelis – Kaleidoscope
5th: Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
[12]
2001	Daft Punk	Discovery
2nd: The Avalanches – Since I Left You
3rd: Basement Jaxx – Rooty
4th: Radiohead – Amnesiac
5th: Röyksopp – Melody A.M.
[13]
2002	Queens of the Stone Age	Songs for the Deaf
2nd: The Streets – Original Pirate Material
3rd: The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4th: Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
5th: 2 Many DJs/Soulwax – 2 Many DJs
[14]
2003	Outkast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2nd: Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
3rd: The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
4th: The White Stripes – Elephant
5th: The Darkness – Permission to Land
[15]
2004	Kanye West	The College Dropout
2nd: Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
3rd: Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
4th: The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free
5th: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
[16]
2005	Arcade Fire	Funeral
2nd: Gorillaz – Demon Days
3rd: Kanye West – Late Registration
4th: Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
5th: Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
[17]
2006	Joanna Newsom	Ys
2nd: Hot Chip – The Warning
3rd: Mastodon – Blood Mountain
4th: Lily Allen – Alright, Still
5th: Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
[18]
2007	LCD Soundsystem	Sound of Silver
2nd: M.I.A. – Kala
3rd: Radiohead – In Rainbows
4th: Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
5th: Battles – Mirrored
[19]
2008	Elbow	The Seldom Seen Kid
2nd: Portishead – Third
3rd: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
4th: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
5th: Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
[20]
2009	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion
2nd: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
3rd: The xx – xx
4th: Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
5th: Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
[2]
2010	Arcade Fire	The Suburbs
2nd: The National – High Violet
3rd: LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
4th: Beach House – Teen Dream
5th: Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
[21]
2011	PJ Harvey	Let England Shake
2nd: Bon Iver – Bon Iver
3rd: Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
4th: Radiohead – The King of Limbs
5th: Tune-Yards – Whokill
[22]
2012	Frank Ocean	Channel Orange
2nd: Jack White – Blunderbuss
3rd: Tame Impala – Lonerism
4th: Grimes – Visions
5th: Grizzly Bear – Shields