Uncut magazine:

1. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells

2. Bob Dylan, "Love And Theft"

3. Wilco, A Ghost Is Born

4. Brian Wilson, Smile

5. The Strokes, Is This It

6. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

7. Arcade Fire, Funeral

8. Bob Dylan, Modern Times

9. Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker

10. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes

The NME:

1. The Strokes, Is This It

2. The Libertines, Up The Bracket

3. Primal Scream, XTRMNTR

4. Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell

6. PJ Harvey, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

7. Arcade Fire, Funeral

8. Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights

9. The Streets, Original Pirate Material

10. Radiohead, In Rainbows

Pitchfork.com:

1. Radiohead, Kid A

2. Arcade Fire, Funeral

3. Daft Punk, Discovery

4. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

5. Jay-Z, The Blueprint

6. Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica

7. The Strokes, Is This It

8. Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun

9. Panda Bear, Person Pitch

10. The Avalanches, Since I Left You

Rolling Stone:

1. Radiohead, Kid A

2. The Strokes, Is This It

3. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4. Jay-Z, The Blueprint

5. The White Stripes, Elephant

6. Arcade Fire, Funeral

7. Eminem, The Marshal Mathers LP

8. Bob Dylan, Modern Times

9. M.I.A., Kala

10. Kanye West, The College Dropout

Nielsen SoundScan's best-selling albums of the decade (the authority for overall sales of music):

1. The Beatles, 1, 11,499,000

2. *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 11,112,000

3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10,546,000

4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10,204,000

5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 9,799,000

6. Usher, Confessions, 9,712,000

7. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, 9,663,000

8. Creed, Human Clay, 9,491,000

9. Britney Spears, Oops! ... I Did It Again, 9,185,000

10. Nelly, Country Grammar, 8,461,000

Amazon.co.uk's best-selling albums of the decade:

1. Only by the Night, Kings of Leon

2. Back To Black, Amy Winehouse

3. X&Y, Coldplay

4. The Circus, Take That

5. Hopes and Fears, Keane

6. Rockferry, Duffy

7. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones

8. Eyes Open, Snow Patrol

9. Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters

10. Day & Age, The Killers

Amazon.co.uk's top 10 best-selling artists of the decade:

1. The Beatles

2. Take That

3. The Killers

4. Coldplay

5. Michael Jackson

6. Snow Patrol

7. Robbie Williams

8. Bob Dylan

9. U2

10. Kings Of Leon

Billboard critics' favourite albums of the decade(U.S.):

1. Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004)

2. Radiohead, Kid A (2000)

3. The Strokes, Is This It (2001)

4. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

5. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (2007)

6. Jay-Z, The Blueprint (2001)

7. Radiohead, In Rainbows (2007-8)

8. The White Stripes, Elephant (2003)

9. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

10. M.I.A., Aurlar (2005)

Billboard's best-performing artists across its albums chart and Hot 100 singles(U.S.):

1. Eminem

2. Usher

3. Nelly

4. Beyonce

5. Alicia Keys

6. 50 Cent

7. Nickelback

8. Britney Spears

9. Destiny's Child

10. Jay-Z