| Rank | Album (2011) | Artist/Group |
| 1 | Let England Shake | PJ Harvey |
| 2 | 21 | Adele |
| 3 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver |
| 4 | whokill | tUnE-yArDs |
| 5 | Strange Mercy | St. Vincent |
| 6 | Watch the Throne | Jay-Z and Kanye West |
| 7 | House of Balloons | The Weeknd |
| 8 | Helplessness Blues | Fleet Foxes |
| 9 | Take Care | Drake |
| 10 | Black Up | Shabazz Palaces |
| 11 | David Comes to Life | Fucked Up |
| 12 | Bad As Me | Tom Waits |
| 13 | James Blake | James Blake |
| 14 | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | Girls |
| 15 | Smoke Ring for My Halo | Kurt Vile |
| 16 | Skying | The Horrors |
| 17 | Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming | M83 |
| 18 | undun | The Roots |
| 19 | Kaputt | Destroyer |
| 20 | The Whole Love | Wilco |
| 21 | Wild Flag | Wild Flag |
| 22 | Burst Apart | The Antlers |
| 23 | The English Riviera | Metronomy |
| 24 | Metals | Feist |
| 25 | The King Is Dead | The Decemberists |
| 26 | So Beautiful or So What | Paul Simon |
| 27 | The King of Limbs | Radiohead |
| 28 | El Camino | The Black Keys |
| 29 | Nostalgia, Ultra. | Frank Ocean |
| 30 | Circuital | My Morning Jacket |
| 31 | Days | Real Estate |
| 32 | Glass Swords | Rustie |
| 33 | The Harrow & The Harvest | Gillian Welch |
| 34 | Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition] | Can |
| 35 | What's Going On [40th Anniversary Edition] | Marvin Gaye |
| 36 | Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 | Miles Davis |
| 37 | Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition] | Smashing Pumpkins |
| 38 | The SMiLE Sessions | The Beach Boys |
| 39 | Icky Mettle [Deluxe Edition] | Archers of Loaf |
| 40 | Life's Rich Pageant [25th Anniversary Edition] | R.E.M. |
| 41 | Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe Edition] | U2 |
| 42 | Some Girls [Deluxe Edition] | The Rolling Stones |
| 43 | Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down | Ry Cooder |
| 44 | Quadrophenia [The Director's Cut] | The Who |
| 45 | The Greatest Story Never Told | Saigon |
| 46 | No Devolucion | Thursday |
| 47 | The Wonder Years | 9th Wonder |
| 48 | Celestial Lineage | Wolves in the Throne Room |
| 49 | Space Is Only Noise | Nicolas Jaar |
| 50 | Stone Rollin' | Raphael Saadiq |
| 51 | Empros | Russian Circles |
| 52 | Ravedeath, 1972 | Tim Hecker |
| 53 | Floreat | Mara Carlyle |
| 54 | 50 Words for Snow | Kate Bush |
| 55 | New Brigade | Iceage |
| 56 | Smother | Wild Beasts |
| 57 | Looping State of Mind | The Field |
| 58 | When the Heart Emerges Glistening | Ambrose Akinmusire |
| 59 | Wounded Rhymes | Lykke Li |
| 60 | Nine Types of Light | TV on the Radio |
| 61 | Build a Rocket Boys! | Elbow |
| 62 | Parallax | Atlas Sound |
| 63 | Wasting Light | Foo Fighters |
| 64 | Ceremonials | Florence + The Machine |
| 65 | Born This Way | Lady Gaga |
Note: The above ranking is based on statistics of Metacritic.com, including the Music Critic Top 10 Lists, the Best Albums of 2011, and Metacritic Users Poll Results.
