Zzz Records' Best Selling Albums for the entire year of 2005

(Local artists noted in red print)

  1. Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"
  2. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  3. The White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan"
  4. Coldplay "X & Y"
  5. Bright Eyes "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn"
  6. Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"
  7. Low "The Great Destroyer"
  8. Nine Inch Nails "With Teeth"
  9. The Decemberists "Picaresque"
  10. Bloc Party "Silent Alarm"
  11. Iron & Wine "Woman King"
  12. Gorillaz "Demon Days"
  13. William E. Whitmore "Ashes to Dust"
  14. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  15. The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema"
  16. Calexico/Iron & Wine "In the Reins"
  17. Sufjan Stevens "Michigan"
  18. Spoon "Gimme Fiction"
  19. Sleater-Kinney "The Woods"
  20. Of Montreal "The Sunlandic Twins"
  21. Beck "Guero"
  22. LCD Soundsystem "LCD Soundsystem"
  23. Iron & Wine "The Creek Drank the Cradle"
  24. The Silver Mt. Zion "Horses in the Sky"
  25. Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"
  26. Neutral Milk Hotel "On Avery Island"
  27. The Mars Volta "Frances the Mute"
  28. Gang of Four "Entertainment!"
  29. Death Cab For Cutie "Plans"
  30. Franz Ferdinand "You Could Have It So Much Better"
  31. Joanna Newsom "The Milk-Eyed Mender"
  32. The Postal Service "We Will Become Silhouettes"
  33. The Shins "Oh, Inverted World"
  34. Weezer "Make Believe"
  35. Can "Tago Mago"
  36. Belle & Sebastian "Push Barman to Open Old Wounds"
  37. Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
  38. Radiohead "OK Computer"
  39. Danger Doom "The Mouse & the Mask"
  40. Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand"


Once again, ties were broken by using the random number generator at random.org.