Kid A is back on the Billboard 200, at #100. Of course, placing high on all those decade lists (posted before the decade was over) surely helped, but if we’re talking aesthetic posterity, it’s hard to think of a better example than Kid A. Check out this interesting Kid A-era Thom Yorke interview:
By the way, Kid A is also #24 on the digital albums charts, so the significance of the re-entry ain’t so easily attributed to the digital/physical dichotomy. Sorry!