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Pitchfork has crowned their top 200 albums of the last decade [p’fork]. I wondered how former number ones fared upon reassessment. The graph above shows the “end of the decade” position for each of the nine albums that the site previously ranked as the best of the year. Only three annual number ones held spots in the decade ending list; with Radiohead’s Kid A (the best of 2000) staying on top at the end of 2009. The Microphones’s the Glow Part 2 (the best of 2001) fell the furthest to number 73 of the decade. Personally, I think it holds up much better than that.
Note: I’m guessing that Merriweather Post Pavillion is going to grab the number one spot for 2009, since, at number 14 it’s the highest ranked album from this year in the top 200 list.

