my top 30 of albums released from 2000-2004 from my albums airplay chart, with airplay totals...

01 good news for people who love bad news modest mouse 506
02 kid a radiohead 493
03 hail to the thief radiohead 408
04 gold ryan adams 305
05 absolution muse 295
06 a ghost is born wilco 276
07 logic will break your heart the stills 271
08 chutes too narrow the shins 269
09 hopes and fears keane 257
10 the photo album death cab for cutie 254
11 the meadowlands the wrens 254
12 barricades and brickwalls kasey chambers 252
13 yankee hotel foxtrot wilco 252
14 rainy day music the jayhawks 246
15 the marshall mathers lp eminem 240
16 amnesiac radiohead 234
17 the moon & antarctica modest mouse 229
18 oops!...I did it again britney spears 228
19 the eminem show eminem 216
20 think tank blur 215
21 rockin' the suburbs ben folds 213
22 exciter depeche mode 212
23 if it was you tegan and sara 204
24 demolition ryan adams 203
25 beautifulgarbage garbage 201
26 stripped christina aguilera 201
27 heartbreaker ryan adams 186
28 stories from the city, stories from the sea pj harvey 179
29 franz ferdinand franz ferdinand 174
30 blacklisted neko case 167

This list is personally-imperfect. i'd actually rank "moon" higher than "good news" and "heartbreaker" higher than "gold". There's a "coattails" affect working here -- i'll pickup an album, take a while to "love it", but by that time be kinda tired of it. Then on the next album, love that one even more based on my growing love for the last. (am i making sense?) Plus, my tastes have changed significantly since around 2000, but a few pre-2000 poppy elements remain.

If i could re-arrange this top 30, possibly including a few just below it, i'd have this:

01 kid a radiohead
02 hail to the thief radiohead
03 yankee hotel foxtrot wilco
04 the moon & antarctica modest mouse
05 the marshall mathers lp eminem
06 heartbreaker ryan adams
07 good news for people who love bad news modest mouse
08 gold ryan adams
09 logic will break your heart the stills
10 amnesiac radiohead
11 chutes too narrow the shins
12 blacklisted neko case
13 absolution muse
14 a ghost is born wilco
15 the meadowlands the wrens
16 the eminem show eminem
17 smile the jayhawks
18 think tank blur
19 the photo album death cab for cutie
20 hopes and fears keane
21 electric version the new pornographers
22 pneumonia whiskeytown
23 funeral the arcade fire
24 rainy day music the jayhawks
25 demolition ryan adams
26 exciter depeche mode
27 franz ferdinand franz ferdinand
28 barricades and brickwalls kasey chambers
29 stories from the city, stories from the sea pj harvey
30 stripped christina aguilera

(The bottom list is the final top 30 list.)