Discover the best music albums in history.
BestEverAlbums.com calculates a ranking from over 60,000 greatest album charts to allow visitors to look up the greatest music albums in history.
You can also view the best albums of 2025 or the best albums of the 2020s (or any year or decade since 1940).
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| Is by My Morning Jacket is ranked 90th in the best albums of 2025 (Released: 2025-03-21). |
| Album anniversary | |
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|  On this day, 10 years ago, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett was released. Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit is ranked sixth in 2015, 63rd in the 2010s and 467th in the overall rankings. The top rated tracks on this album are Depreston and Pedestrian At Best. This album is ranked first out of albums by Courtney Barnett. |
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| Recent posts: |
| What album are you listening to? (cont.) (Forum: Music) |
| "Thumbnail. Click to enlarge. So by Peter Gabriel..." |
From  Purplepash on 29 minutes ago |
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| "Link..." |
From  neilgee on 2 hours ago |
| Chart of the day (#4898): By jhuik (Forum: Music) |
| "Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by jhuik (View chart) 1. Born To Run by..." |
From  albummaster on 2 hours ago |
| Latest comments |
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Out Of Time by R.E.M. ( 53 comments) |
| "I get why this is divisive, but also, the highs on this thing are incredible. Beautiful, lush, and m..." |
From  HoldenM on 30 hours ago |
| Green by R.E.M. ( 56 comments) |
| "Yet another R.E.M. album that shoots up on revisit. ..." |
| From HoldenM on 30 hours ago |
| Document by R.E.M. ( 47 comments) |
| "A really good album if not quite a great one like their previous four. Solid from top to bottom with..." |
| From HoldenM on 30 hours ago |
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| Latest ratings |
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| 5150 by Van Halen |
75/100 |
| From timosbuecherei on 12 minutes ago |
| Service Station At The End Of The Universe by Antony Szmierek |
55/100 |
From  Igtonumama on 13 minutes ago |
| Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis |
80/100 |
| From MarkusKosmo on 19 minutes ago |
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Site news and announcements
| March 2025 site update |
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| From albummaster on Thursday 20 March 2025 |
| A site update has just been added which mostly aims to provide more visibility of album year & decade changes. This is more the case for older albums, but occasionally the original year of release for an album might be unclear and the year on BEA might swing between different values. This then causes an associated impact on people's year & decade charts as albums might become ineligible for the charts in which they originally appeared (& points in those charts are then not awarded to those albums because albums only earn points in the associated year or decade that they are deemed to have been released).
To help mitigate this, on your My Charts page, you will now see at a glance which year/decade charts contain ineligible albums due to album years being changed after a chart was updated. You will also see suspect albums in each chart, and any deleted albums will also be indicated (albums are deleted from the site 28 days after an album has been flagged as suspect). Album year changes are now also reported in the forums on a weekly basis to provide extra visibility. Additional controls may also be added to the admin pages to help prevent edit wars and reduce the number of year changes being made. As part of this update, many other smaller changes have also been made across the site to improve mobile browsing. improve performance in certain areas & address a number of small bugs. Lastly, BEA is now on Bluesky (so expect posts to be added there soon, in addition to Facebook and X). AM |
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