Miss America
by Mary Margaret O'Hara
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Mary Margaret O'Hara bestography
Miss America is ranked as the best album by Mary Margaret O'Hara.
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Miss America track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Miss America rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Best 100 of Canada | 63/100 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | most listened to (2 B deleted) | 53/96 | - |
| 2026 | mianfei | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 21/100 | 74 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 74 Music Albums of 1988 | 61/74 | 1 |
| 2026 | mianfei | Top 70 Music Albums of the 1980s | 2/70 | 20 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 83 Music Albums of 1988 | 50/83 | 2 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 23 Music Albums of 1988 | 10/23 | 3 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1901-2000 | 71/100 | - |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 18/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 87 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 340 | |||
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Miss America ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/27/2026 23:03 | Melway94 | 118 | 83/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 11:28 |  Tamthebam | 23,296 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2026 17:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,684 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Romanelli 09/21/2022 23:09 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Sacred CowMiss America comments
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A forgotten classic. The eighties production dates it a little but the songwriting and the voice are timeless
A great album. The production is excellent and her choice of material is very strong. If you like something challenging and different you'll like this.
Mary Margaret O'Hara is one of the greatest singer songwriters of all-time. Her masterpiece, Miss America (1988), took four years to materialize but it was worth the wait. O'Hara's quirky voice is an instrument in itself, a super-human fusion of avantgarde techniques (such as those pioneered by Meredith Monk) and gospel/soul styling. Coupled with her sophisticated blues and jazz arrangements, the atmosphere of 'Miss America' is memorably intense.
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