| t.w. | l.w. | Artist | Title | Label | |
| 1 | 2 | Fountains of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | S-Curve/Virgin | |
| 2 | 4 | Dropkick Murphys | Blackout | Hellcat | |
| 3 | D | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes | Take a Break | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| 4 | 1 | Alkaline Trio | Good Mourning | Vagrant | |
| 5 | 8 | Grandaddy | Sumday | V2/Will | |
| 6 | 11 | Various Artists | Punk Rock Strike Volume 4 | Springman | |
| 7 | 6 | Various Artists | Punk-o-Rama 8 | Epitaph | |
| 8 | 39 | The Jealous Sound | Kill Them With Kindness | Better Looking | |
| 9 | 27 | Enon | In This City (single) | Touch and Go | |
| 10 | 15 | The Unseen | Explode | Interscope | |
| 11 | 16 | Pinback | Offcell EP | Absolutely Kosher | |
| 12 | * | The Lucksmiths | Naturaliste | Drive-In | |
| 13 | 9 | Less Than Jake | Anthem | Warner Brothers | |
| 14 | * | Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham | L'Avventura | Jetset | |
| 15 | 20 | Cinerama | Cinerama Holiday | Manifesto | |
| 16 | 4 | Radiohead | Hail to the Thief | Capitol | |
| 17 | 50 | The Tyde | Twice | Rough Trade | |
| 18 | 37 | The Suicide Machines | A Match and Some Gasoline | Side One Dummy | |
| 19 | 14 | Stunt Monkey | Girlfriend Likes Girls (single) | UTR Music Group | |
| 20 | 7 | The Dandy Warhols | Welcome to the College EP | Capitol | |
| 21 | D | Calexico | Feast of Wire | Touch and Go | |
| 22 | * | Strung Out | Live in a Dive | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| 23 | 17 | Kaito | Band Red | spinART | |
| 24 | * | Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine & Ours | Ashmont | |
| 25 | 26 | Good Riddance | Bound By Ties | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| 26 | * | Various Artists | Liberation Songs | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| 27 | * | The Turbo A.C.'s | Automatic | Gearhead | |
| 28 | * | American Analog Set | Promise of Love | Tiger Style | |
| 29 | 12 | Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People | Matador | |
| 30 | 10 | Rooney | S/T | Interscope | |
| 31 | 18 | The Eddie Haskells | It's Going Down EP | Hubcap n Wheel | |
| 32 | * | D.O.A. | Win The Battle | Sudden Death | |
| 33 | * | The Skyflakes/Clarendon Hills | split 7" | F.U. | |
| 34 | D | The Clientele | The Violet Hour | Merge | |
| 35 | * | Super Furry Animals | Phantom Power | XL/Beggars Group | |
| 36 | 36 | Ultimate Fakebook | Before We Spark | Initial | |
| 37 | 43 | Mars Volta | Deloused in the Comatorium | Universal | |
| 38 | * | Morning Spy | S/T EP | self-released | |
| 39 | * | Various Artists | Kitestringing: Prison Literature Project Benefit | Versus/Substandard | |
| 40 | D | Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys | Metarie | Startime International | |
| 41 | 22 | Guster | Keep it Together | Reprise | |
| 42 | 31 | The Real McKenzies | Oot and Aboot | Honest Dons | |
| 43 | 35 | The Deathray Davies | Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Factory | Glurp | |
| 44 | * | 13 Cats | 13 Tracks | Rock-A-Billy Records | |
| 45 | * | Planet Smashers | Mighty | Stomp | |
| 46 | 30 | Betty Blowtorch | Last Call | Foodchain | |
| 47 | * | Vervein | Vast Low Cities | self-released | |
| 48 | * | Furious IV | Is That You? | Naked Jain | |
| 49 | 47 | Lowlights | S/T | Darla | |
| 50 | * | Death in Vegas | Scorpio Rising | Sanctuary | |
| t.w. | l.w. | TOP 5 ADDS | |||
| 1 | n/a | The Appleseed Cast | Two Conversations | Tiger Style | |
| 2 | n/a | The Locust | Plague Soundscapes | Anti | |
| 3 | n/a | Patrick Park | Loneliness Knows My Name | Hollywood | |
| 4 | n/a | Rob Crow | My Room is a Mess | Absolutely Kosher | |