| 1 | MUMFORD AND SONS | “I Will Wait” [Single] | Glassnote | |
| 2 | FRANK OCEAN | Channel Orange | Def Jam | |
| 3 | THE XX | Coexist | Young Turks | |
| 4 | JACK WHITE | Blunderbuss | Columbia | |
| 5 | FATHER JOHN MISTY | Fear Fun | Sub Pop | |
| 6 | BEST COAST | The Only Place | Mexican Summer | |
| 7 | PASSION PIT | Gossamer | Columbia | |
| 8 | YEASAYER | Fragrant World | Secretly Canadian | |
| 9 | DIVINE FITS | A Thing Called Divine Fits | Merge | |
| 10 | ANTLERS | Undersea | Anti | |
| 11 | WALKMEN | Heaven | Fat Possum | |
| 12 | METRIC | Synthetica | Mom And Pop-MMI | |
| 13 | BEN FOLDS FIVE | “Do It Anyway” [single] | Sony | |
| 14 | ELLE KING | The Elle King [EP] | RCA | |
| 15 | BIRDS AND BATTERIES | Stray Light | Eightmaps | |
| 16 | TALLEST MAN ON EARTH | There’s No Leaving Now | Dead Oceans | |
| 17 | A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS | Worship | Dead Oceans | |
| 18 | DINOSAUR JR. | I Bet On Sky | Jagjaguwar | |
| 19 | ALABAMA SHAKES | Boys And Girls | ATO | |
| 20 | DAN DEACON | America | Domino | |
| 21 | MATT AND KIM | “Let’s Go” [single] | Fader | |
| 22 | SHINS | Port Of Morrow | Columbia | |
| 23 | REGINA SPEKTOR | What We Saw From The Cheap Seats | ADVANCE | |
| 24 | OF MONSTERS AND MEN | My Head Is An Animal | Record | |
| 25 | AMANDA PALMER AND THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA | Theatre Is Evil | 8 Ft. | |
| 26 | TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB | Beacon | Glassnote | |
| 27 | LUMINEERS | The Lumineers | Self-Released | |
| 28 | GRIZZLY BEAR | “Yet Again” [Single] | Warp | |
| 29 | TRAMPLED BY TURTLES | Stars And Satellites | Thirty Tigers | |
| 30 | BRANDI CARLILE | Bear Creek | Columbia |
