Genesis United Kingdom

The best album credited to Genesis is Selling England By The Pound which is ranked number 127 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 11,697.

Genesis is ranked number 34 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 43,294.

Genesis official website: http://www.genesis-music.com

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Genesis THREE SIDES LIVE 2 CD 1982 Atlantic Records AS SHOWN
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Upcoming concerts

Mar
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Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited
Orpheum Theater, Madison, United States. United States
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HyTekk Presents GENESIS HyTekk 15 Year Anniversary
Uptown Theater, Kansas City, United States. United States
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Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited: Foxtrot at 50 & Hackett Highlights
Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, United States. United States
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Genesis best albums

The following albums by Genesis are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1978
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792
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1981
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777
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1977
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667
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1991
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603
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15.
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1973
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217
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1982
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213
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1969
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211
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18.
Archive 1967-1975 
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1998
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198
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1997
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196
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1970-1975 
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2008
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123
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Total albums: 34. Page 2 of 4

This may not be a complete discography for Genesis.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Genesis bestography composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 1 0%
1970s 11 0%
1980s 6 0%
1990s 6 0%
2000s 7 0%
2010s 1 0%
2020s 2 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 22 65%
Yes 12 35%
Live? Albums %
No 25 74%
Yes 9 26%

Genesis best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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Rating: 92 (393 votes)Comments: 11
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Rating: 92 (336 votes)Comments: 19
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(from the album Foxtrot)
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Rating: 91 (208 votes)Comments: 9
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(from the album Nursery Cryme)
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Rating: 90 (141 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Trespass)
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Rating: 89 (262 votes)Comments: 6
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(from the album Foxtrot)
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Rating: 89 (240 votes)Comments: 6
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Rating: 88 (153 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Genesis)
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Rating: 88 (160 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album A Trick Of The Tail)
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Rating: 87 (153 votes)Comments: 6
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(from the album A Trick Of The Tail)
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Rating: 87 (222 votes)Comments: 4
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Rating: 87 (163 votes)Comments: 5
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(from the album Nursery Cryme)
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Rating: 87 (148 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album A Trick Of The Tail)
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Rating: 87 (129 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Genesis)
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Rating: 87 (159 votes)Comments: 5
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(from the album Nursery Cryme)
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Rating: 86 (93 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Wind & Wuthering)
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Genesis ratings

Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 218 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.7/100, a mean average of 82.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.1/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.2.

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From 08/18/2022 05:59
Probably my favorite band of all time! Of course what they did in the 70s with Peter Gabriel was special but they continued on to have a very strong, successful career with Phil Collins on the vocals. The albums waned in quality slightly as the years went on but there was still always stuff worth hearing on each release. But that classic lineup with Gabriel, Hackett, Collins, Banks, Rutherford can't be beat!
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From 05/16/2021 18:46
If you count band, solo, and all their b-sides and rarities, then this is easily one of the greatest bands of the era, or ever.
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From 01/19/2021 15:04
My favourite band of all time. I've been a huge fan since 1977 on having heard ...And Then There Were Three, my first piece of music from the band. They are outstanding as a live act.
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From 06/11/2020 17:57
"The shift in this band's sound from "progressive" to pop was actually not nearly as dramatic as it's been made out to be, particularly if one listens to their albums in chronological order. There was always an adult pop band lurking within Genesis during their prog years. What made songs like "Watcher of the Skies" and "Firth of Fifth" work so wonderfully wasn't their complex rhythmic shifts (although it's easy to overlook just what a fine drummer Phil Collins was and is). It was the keyboard hooks that the vastly underrated Tony Banks laid on top of the rock-solid melodies, with Steve Hackett's guitar solos possessing a hymn-like quality quite unlike anyone else. The band was also blessed to have had two of rock's more memorable front men: the theatrical, vocally dark-shaded Peter Gabriel, and the soulful, Everyman-ish Collins. Fans of only one era or the other are doing themselves, and the band members, a disservice by not recognizing the depth and variety of the music contained in both eras."
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85/100
From 09/01/2019 11:38
My best progressive rock band
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From 06/09/2019 22:34
1. Trespass (best... the knife)
2. Foxtrot (suppers ready)
3. Selling England by the pound (dancing...)
4. ...on brodway (in the cage)
5. Nursery crime (the musical box)
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From 03/22/2019 23:00
Genesis are in the top 5 bands ever in the Peter Gabriel era...
1. PINK Floyd
2. The beatles
3. Genesis (peter Gabriel era 69/74)
4. Led Zeppelin
5.the Rolling Stones
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From 02/25/2019 00:44
My favorite band of all time. They really captured my imagination when I was younger, with all those romantic and beautiful musical journeys through lands of dark fairy tales and Greek mythology. As a three piece they changed their approach a bit, but they still rocked and were extremely creative!
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From 11/07/2018 18:41
The greatest band of all time. I like their earlier work the most, but they kept reinventing themselves and putting out new and exciting stuff all throughout their career. I can't overstate how much I have enjoyed listening to their music.
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From 08/03/2018 13:40
The Peter Gabriel era Genesis is probably the best progressive rock band. It's sad that they later became the horrible pop band that the general public knows them as.
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