| 1 The National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 2 Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 3 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 4 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 5 Iggy & The Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum |
| 6 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 7 Shannon & The Clams | Dreams In The Rat House | Hardly Art |
| 8 A. Tom Collins | Stick and Poke | |
| 9 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 10 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 11 Rogue | Blurry | Atlantic |
| 12 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 14 Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 15 Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 16 Queens Of The Stone Age | Like Clockwork | Matador |
| 17 Cold War Kids | Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | Downtown |
| 18 John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan |
| 19 She & Him | Volume 3 | Merge |
| 20 Lorde | The Love Club [EP] | Republic-Lava |
| 21 Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 22 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 23 Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 24 Club 8 | Above The City | Labrador |
| 25 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 26 Fitz and the Tantrums | More Than Just a Dream | Elektra |
| 27 Sanders Bohlke | Ghost Boy | Communicating Vessels |
| 28 MS MR | Secondhand Rapture | Columbia |
| 29 Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Columbia |
| 30 Colfax Speed Queen | Satisfaction Intended |
