| 1 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of The City | XL |
| 2 Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 3 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 4 She & Him | Volume 3 | Merge |
| 5 David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia |
| 6 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 7 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 8 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 9 Billy Bragg | Tooth & Nail | Cooking Vinyl |
| 10 Cold War Kids | Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | Downtown |
| 11 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 12 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 13 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 14 Paper Bird | Rooms | |
| 15 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matadoe |
| 16 Robyn Hitchcock | Love From London | Yep Roc |
| 17 Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 18 Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 19 Iggy and The Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum |
| 20 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 21 Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 22 A. Tom Collins | Stick & Poke | Greater Than Collective |
| 23 Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek |
| 24 Wavves | Afraid Of Heights | Warner Brothers |
| 25 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 26 National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 27 Replacements | Songs For Slim | New West |
| 28 Rouge | Blurry | Atlantic |
| 29 Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 30 Mudhoney | Vanishing Point | Sub Pop |
