| 1 The Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 2 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 3 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 4 Rilo Kiley | Rkives | Little Record Co. |
| 5 Cold War Kids | Dear Miss Lonely Hearts | Downtown |
| 6 David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia |
| 7 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 8 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 9 Radar Brothers | Eight | Merge |
| 10 Wavves | Afraid Of Heights | Warner Brothers |
| 11 Javelin | Hi Beams | Luaka Bop |
| 12 Wire | Change Becomes Us | Pink Flag |
| 13 Billy Bragg | Tooth And Nail | Cooking Vinyl |
| 14 Paper Bird | Rooms | |
| 15 Shady Elders | No Favors [EP] | |
| 16 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 17 Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 18 Eels | Wonderful, Glorious | Vagrant |
| 19 Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love | Dunham |
| 20 Iron And Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 21 Thee Oh Sees | Floating Coffin | Castle Face |
| 22 Pickwick | Can't Talk Medicine | Self |
| 23 Matt Pond | The Lives Inside The Lines In Your Hands | BMG |
| 24 Heidi Happy | On The Hills | Silent Mode |
| 25 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 26 Youth Lagoon | Wonderous Bughouse | Fat Possum |
| 27 Pillowfight | Pillowfight | Bulk-EMI |
| 28 Wild Belle | Isles | Columbia |
| 29 Kate Nash | Girl Talk | Have 10p |
| 30 Postal Service | Give Up: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Version | Sub Pop |
