Best Ever Albums

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Welcome to BestEverAlbums.com!

What is the greatest music album of all time? If you ask a hundred different people to name the best album of all time, the chances are that you will not get a unanimous answer!

This web site's purpose is to achieve a means of establishing the greatest music albums of all time by using legitimate critical sources and calculating a ranking based on the rank and number of times an album has appeared in a 'greatest album' chart and then ranking the albums according to their aggregate performance.

The best albums of all time, as ranked by BestEverAlbums, are listed on the the Overall Chart page.

Why not take a moment to Register? Additional functionality is available to registered members. Further details regarding the functionality on this website are outlined on the How it Works page.

Site news and announcements

November 2008 site update
From albummaster on Saturday 15 November 2008
Another site update this month incorporating some great suggestions from our members!

  • You can now receive an email notification if a new comment or rating has been made to your chart! You can also receive a notification if a reply is made to one of your comments on any of the album, band or chart pages. You can manage your site-notification preferences from your profile page (a super suggestion from maxxy.)
  • We've added a 'Goto Page' button to enable users to jump to a certain page number... super useful for particularly long lists (great suggestion from JohnnyRocketFingers - can't believe we d... Read more
October 2008 site update
From albummaster on Monday 6 October 2008
This is the first site update since May as I've been pretty busy in my personal life moving country. Things should settle down during the winter and we'll be back on a monthly release-cycle.

There are quite a few changes to the site this month and the bigger/more notable changes are listed below:

  • Ratings have been changed so that they now increment/decrement in units of 5 (out of 100.) People were having some trouble with how the ratings worked before (too difficult to hover over the correct value) and some users reported that ratings were 'skipping' on certain units (e.g. see Read more

More site news can be found in the forums.

Charts
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Member chart (#391 of 640 charts)
Top 5 Greatest Music Albums Added by hoppipolla
AlbumNo. 1: Third Eye Blind
by Third Eye Blind
Overall Rank: 173 (Appears in 8 charts)
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Community Feedback:
"One of the most underrated albums of all time...." More
Comments: 1 comment Average Rating: 80/100 (15 votes)
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Top 20 Greatest Music Albums by maxxy ( 18 comments)
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From twinsbrewer on Friday 21st November 2008
Wildflowers by Tom Petty ( 1 comment)
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