| 1 David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia |
| 2 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 3 Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 4 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 5 Wire | Change Becomes Us | Pink Flag |
| 6 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 7 Iron and Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 8 Could War Kids | Dear Miss Lonely Hearts | Downtown |
| 9 Paper Bird | Rooms | |
| 10 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 11 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 12 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 13 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 14 Shady Elders | No Favors [EP] | |
| 15 Veils | Time Stays, We Go | Pitched Beast |
| 16 Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 17 John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan |
| 18 Wavves | Afraid Of Heights | Warner Brothers |
| 19 Youth Lagoon | Wondrous Bughouse | Fat Possum |
| 20 Heidi Happy | On The Hills | Silent Mode |
| 21 Local Natives | Hummingbird | Frenchkiss |
| 22 Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell | Old Yellow Moon | Nonesuch |
| 23 Boat | Pretend To Be Brave | Magic Maker |
| 24 Robyn Hitchcock | Love From London | Yep Roc |
| 25 Mudhoney | Vanishing Point | Sub Pop |
| 26 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 27 Billy Bragg | Tooth And Nail | Cooking Vinyl |
| 28 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 29 Bombino | Nomad | Nonesuch |
| 30 Flaming Lips | The Terror | Warner Brothers |
