Top-rated songs of 1987
Listed below are the top-rated songs of 1987 as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members!
(To qualify for this chart, a song must have had at least 10 member ratings.)
| Rank | Album\Song | Band | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
61. | Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Song from album: Louder Than Bombs | The Smiths | |||||||
| |||||||||
Buy song    | |||||||||
62. | Smooth Criminal Song from album: Bad | Michael Jackson | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
63. | April Skies Song from album: Darklands | The Jesus and Mary Chain | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
64. | Pour Some Sugar On Me Song from album: Hysteria | Def Leppard | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
65. | Welcome To The Occupation Song from album: Document | R.E.M. | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
66. | It's a Sin Song from album: Actually | Pet Shop Boys | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
67. | That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Song from album: The World Won't Listen | The Smiths | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
| 68. | Animal Song from album: Hysteria | Def Leppard | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
69. | Sludgefeast Song from album: You're Living All Over Me | Dinosaur Jr. | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
70. | Father Figure Song from album: Faith | George Michael | |||||||
| |||||||||
| Buy song | |||||||||
The average rating is a Bayesian average, calculated as follows:
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV
where:
av = mean average rating a track has currently received.
n = number of ratings a track has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for a track to appear in the 'top-rated' chart (currently 20).
AV = the site mean average rating for a track (currently 78/100).
