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Top 50 albums

Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Top 100 Songs of 2011

#1

Adele
21

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#2

Dawes
Nothing Is Wrong

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#3

The Decemberists
The King Is Dead

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#4

Amos Lee
Mission Bell

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#5

Foster The People
Torches

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#6

Paul Simon
So Beautiful Or What

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#7

Wilco
The Whole Love

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#8

Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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#9

Coldplay
Mylo Xyloto

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#10

My Morning Jacket
Circuital

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#11

Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues

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#12

Civil Wars
Barton Hallow

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#13

Diego Garcia
Laura

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#14

Tedeschi Trucks Band
Revelator

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#15

Black Keys
El Camino

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#16

Ryan Adams
Ashes And Fire

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#17

Feist
Metals

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#18

The Head And Heart
The Head And Heart

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#19

Death Cab For A Cutie
Codes And Keys

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#20

Tom Waits
Bad As Me

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#21

Florence And the Machine
Ceremonials

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#22

R.E.M.
Collapse Into Now

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#23

Raphael Saadiq
Stone Rollin

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#24

St Vincent
Strange Mercy

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#25

Radiohead
The King Of Limbs

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