| Year |
Winner |
Nominations |
| 2000 |
Beck for Mutations |
Tori Amos for To Venus And Back
Fatboy Slim for You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Moby for Play
Nine Inch Nails for The Fragile |
| 2001 |
Radiohead for Kid A |
Fiona Apple for When the Pawn...
Beck for Midnite Vultures
The Cure for Bloodflowers
Paul McCartney for Liverpool Sound Collage |
| 2002 |
Coldplay for Parachutes |
Tori Amos for Strange Little Girls
Björk for Vespertine
Fatboy Slim for Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Radiohead for Amnesiac |
| 2003 |
Coldplay for A Rush of Blood to the Head |
Beck for Sea Change
Clinic for Walking With Thee
Elvis Costello and the Imposters for Cruel Smile
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives for Behind The Music |
| 2004 |
The White Stripes for Elephant |
The Flaming Lips for Fight Test
Radiohead for Hail to the Thief
Sigur Rós for ( )
Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Fever to Tell |
| 2005 |
Wilco for A Ghost Is Born |
Björk for Medúlla
Franz Ferdinand for Franz Ferdinand
PJ Harvey for Uh Huh Her
Modest Mouse for Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| 2006 |
The White Stripes for Get Behind Me Satan |
Arcade Fire for Funeral
Beck for Guero
Death Cab for Cutie for Plans
Franz Ferdinand for You Could Have It So Much Better |
| 2007 |
Gnarls Barkley for St. Elsewhere |
Arctic Monkeys for Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Flaming Lips for At War with the Mystics
Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Show Your Bones
Thom Yorke for The Eraser |
| 2008 |
The White Stripes for Icky Thump |
Lily Allen for Alright, Still
Arcade Fire for Neon Bible
Björk for Volta
The Shins for Wincing the Night Away |
| 2009 |
Radiohead for In Rainbows |
Beck for Modern Guilt
Death Cab for Cutie for Narrow Stairs
Gnarls Barkley for The Odd Couple
My Morning Jacket for Evil Urges |
