“She didn't move from the sofa and she sang two takes of Rolling in the Deep and that's what we used”: Adele, Daft Punk and Taylor Swift are among our picks for the best recorded albums of the 21st century

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RECORDING WEEK 2024: While we might not yet be a quarter of the way through the century, it's time to gather our thoughts and the record books, and look back at the stand-out albums that the 21st century has delivered thus far. With a few billion streams, and many million sales between them, there should be few arguments over who will come out on top. But we know there will be…

So before we start, we know that you are going to disagree with some of what we write here - we're almost inviting you to - as choosing the best of anything, especially music, is fraught with danger and always as subjective as it is personal. But as we are a production-based website, and it's Recording Week on said website, we at least have a few self-imposed rules to abide by for this particular list.