| 1 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 2 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL |
| 3 Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 4 National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 5 She & Him | Volume 3 | Merge |
| 6 Paper Bird | Rooms | |
| 7 Cold War Kids | Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | Downtown |
| 8 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 9 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 10 Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 11 A. Tom Collins | Stick & Poke | |
| 12 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 13 Rogue Wave | Blurry | Atlantic |
| 14 Johnny Marr | The Messenger | Sire |
| 15 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 16 John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan |
| 17 Sanders Bohlke | Ghost Boy | Communicating Vessels |
| 18 Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek |
| 19 Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 20 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 21 Wild Belle | Isles | Columbia |
| 22 Club 8 | Above The City | Labrador |
| 23 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 24 Still Corners | Strange Pleasures | Sub Pop |
| 25 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 26 Iggy & The Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum |
| 27 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 28 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 29 Saturday Looks Good To Me | One Kiss Ends It All | Polyvinyl |
| 30 Small Black | Limits Of Desire | Jagjaguwar |
