List of best-selling albums of the 2000s in Australia

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ARIA's End of Decade Top 100 Albums Chart are the best selling albums in Australia from 2000 to 2009. Delta Goodrem's debut record, Innocent Eyes , became the best-selling album in Australia in the 2000s, spending a total of 29 weeks at #1 and selling more than 1.2 million copies in Australia alone since it was released in 2003. Goodrem's second album, Mistaken Identity , managed to chart at 64. Other artists, such as Coldplay and U2, each provided four albums to ARIA's End of Decade Top 100 Album Chart, with Coldplay placing at number 19 with A Rush of Blood to the Head , X&Y at 38, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends at 52 and Parachutes at 99. U2 proved just as relevant to the 2000s as they were to the 1980s and 1990s, with All That You Can't Leave Behind at 41, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb at 71, The Best of 1990-2000 at 74 and U218 Singles at 92.

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Six artists contributed three titles within the top 100, each having a significant impact on music charts and genres across the last decade; they were The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Kylie Minogue, Michael Bublé, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Robbie Williams. [1] Minogue was notable for being the only female artist and only Australian artist to have three albums rank in the chart with Fever at 13, Light Years at 69 and Ultimate Kylie at 82.

Top 100

PositionAlbum titleArtistYearPeak
1 Innocent Eyes Delta Goodrem 20031
2 Funhouse Pink 20081
3 I'm Not Dead Pink20061
4 Come Away with Me Norah Jones 20031
5 The Sound of White Missy Higgins 20051
6 Only by the Night Kings of Leon 20081
7 Get Born Jet 20041
8 Back to Bedlam James Blunt 20061
9 Greatest Hits Robbie Williams 20041
10 The Eminem Show Eminem 20021
11 Odyssey Number Five Powderfinger 20001
12 Michael Bublé Michael Bublé 20041
13 Fever Kylie Minogue 20011
14 Let Go Avril Lavigne 20021
15 Fallen Evanescence 20041
16 Life for Rent Dido 20031
17 Feeler Pete Murray 20041
18 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle 20091
19 A Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay 20031
20 1 The Beatles 20001
21 Breakaway Kelly Clarkson 20051
22 American Idiot Green Day 20051
23 Songs About Jane Maroon 5 20041
24 No Angel Dido20011
25 Vulture Street Powderfinger20031
26 Barricades & Brickwalls Kasey Chambers 20021
27 Monkey Business The Black Eyed Peas 20051
28 Just as I Am Guy Sebastian 20031
29 FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake 20071
30 It's Time Michael Bublé20051
31 Reach Out: The Motown Record Human Nature 20061
32 Greatest Hits Red Hot Chili Peppers 20032
33 Elephunk The Black Eyed Peas20041
34 Call Me Irresponsible Michael Bublé20071
35 The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac 20031
36 Black Ice AC/DC 20081
37 That's What I'm Talking About Shannon Noll 20041
38 X&Y Coldplay20051
39 Wolfmother Wolfmother 20053
40 Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film Various Artists20012
41 All That You Can't Leave Behind U2 20001
42 Eyes Open Snow Patrol 20061
43 Laundry Service Shakira 20021
44 Play Moby 20001
45 Escapology Robbie Williams20023
46 Affirmation Savage Garden 20001
47 All the Right Reasons Nickelback 20062
48 More Than You Think You Are Matchbox Twenty 20033
49 Love, Angel, Music, Baby Gwen Stefani 20051
50 Tea & Sympathy Bernard Fanning 20051
51 Sunrise over Sea The John Butler Trio 20041
52 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay20081
53 By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers20021
54 Escape Enrique Iglesias 20021
55 One Voice: The Greatest Hits John Farnham 20031
56 A Funk Odyssey Jamiroquai 20021
57 On and On Jack Johnson 20033
58 Swing When You're Winning Robbie Williams20023
59 Number Ones Michael Jackson 20031
60 rearviewmirror Pearl Jam 20042
61 The Winner's Journey Damien Leith 20061
62 Here Come the Drums Rogue Traders 20062
63 See the Sun Pete Murray20051
64 Mistaken Identity Delta Goodrem20051
65 The Secret Life of... The Veronicas 20062
66 Stripped Christina Aguilera 20037
67 Black Fingernails, Red Wine Eskimo Joe 20061
68 Born to Do It Craig David 20012
69 Light Years Kylie Minogue20001
70 ELV1S Elvis Presley 20021
71 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb U220081
72 Ancora Il Divo 20051
73 Their Greatest Hits: The Record Bee Gees 20011
74 The Best of 1990–2000 U220021
75 Greatest Hits Guns N' Roses 20046
76 The Essential Michael Jackson Michael Jackson20093
77 8 Mile Shady Records 20021
78 Encore Eminem20041
79 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem20011
80 In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 R.E.M. 20035
81 The Power Vanessa Amorosi 20001
82 Ultimate Kylie Kylie Minogue20045
83 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers20001
84 The E.N.D The Black Eyed Peas20091
85 In Blue The Corrs 20001
86"In Your Honour" Foo Fighters 20051
87 Fearless Taylor Swift 20092
88 Human Clay Creed 20012
89 The Fame Monster Lady Gaga 20093
90 Demon Days Gorillaz 20051
91 Confessions Usher 20042
92 U218 Singles U220061
93 Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water Limp Bizkit 20011
94 The Dutchess Fergie 20071
95 Hybrid Theory Linkin Park 20012
96 Mad Season Matchbox Twenty20001
97 Hot Fuss The Killers 20041
98 Meteora Linkin Park20031
99 Parachutes Coldplay20012
100 It's Not Me, It's You Lily Allen 20091

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