The Top 100 Albums
by VH1 (2001) 
VH1 is an American basic cable television network based in New York City. These are their best albums of all time. VH1 is an American cable television channel that was created in 1985. Their list of 100 greatest albums was devised in 2001 from a poll of 500 rock journalists and musicians, including Britney Spears, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Art Garfunkel, Wyclef Jean and Carole King.
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The Top 100 Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 28 | 28% | |
| 1970s | 45 | 45% | |
| 1980s | 19 | 19% | |
| 1990s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 4% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 3 | 3% | |
| The Who | 3 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
| Aretha Franklin | 3 | 3% | |
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59 | 59% | |
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28 | 28% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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The Top 100 Albums ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| 03/06/2025 20:25 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 05/18/2024 09:52 |  zwiebel | 189 | 86/100 | |
| 10/19/2022 16:54 |  AlvaroIesus | 74 | 77/100 | |
| 10/15/2022 10:40 | animals0809 | 57 | 93/100 | |
| 10/06/2022 02:26 | MattBarber | 2 | 78/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some charts can have several thousand ratings)
This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 19.7.
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They really need to take a look outside the US borders
58 of the 100 entries are from the USA, which left out a number of albums from abroad that had a better claim to be in this list.
Pet Sounds is trick played by Americans to try and knock some UK acts off these lists.
Good list not much to surprise you though
Tres bonne sélection mais trop d'artistes similaires, c'est dommage
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Agree with most placings, 7 and 8 should be switched however.
teague 06/29/2020 23:19 | #254776
I was expecting this to be hot trash coming from VH1, but this list is fine. Not awful, but not particularly adventurous either.
Good overall. However... WHERE IS COLTRANE!?!?
Larcx13 06/17/2020 17:35 | #253761
Rolling Stone's top 20 of their 500 was better than this. Good props to Sex Pistols and Nirvana but they were placed too high. I don't see these albums as better than London Calling, Highway 61, or Blood on the Tracks.
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