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Explore the overall rankings of the best albums in history, based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts.
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"My favourite Dylan album. It's sort of a combination of rock,blues,folk,and country, and at the same time it's none of these, I guess it's that wild mercury sound that Bob alluded to. Gone is the vitriol of his last album, and replaced with a cynical sarcasm, and a bit more humour. There's defini..." [+] Reply
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1966
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23,882
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"I don´t know why people don´t seem to like this album as much as WYWH or DSOTM. I think it's fantastic, a lot of great tracks and just draws you in." Reply
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albummaster | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1979
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23,793
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"Not many albums can be said to have created a generation. This did. From the opening bass of I wanna be adored not a single thing could be improved upon. utter absolute perfection." Reply
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1989
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22,183
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34.
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"Well this went from one of my least favorite albums ever, to one of my fav hip hop albums ever. Took a year, but this is legit. Monster is fuckin SICK." Reply
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Necharsian | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +14 votes (18 helpful | 4 unhelpful)
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2010
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21,436
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"Roger Waters plays this whole thing live in support of his new album and this just shoots up the charts, funny how that works but it still has some climbing to do. It'd be a lot higher if it weren't competing so directly with Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall, it deserves to..." [+] Reply
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1977
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21,302
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"I just realised I just wrote a 500 word essay on a jazz album. Man, if only writing school essays would go this fast. I also just realised I used the wrong form of they're, dammit." Reply
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goeie-oko | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1959
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20,946
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"It is a great album, but it's interesting to note how interest in a hip-hop album on this site is piqued once it has the Pitchfork seal of approval. Anyway, can't complain that people are enjoying good hip-hop." Reply
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2012
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20,931
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"80/100 for the U.K. version. 95/100 for the U.S. version. One is very good, the other is absolutely brilliant." Reply
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9999 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1967
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20,857
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"This is not only the product of a man's sadness, as people usually say, but of a genius' thoughts about life. Few albums can be compared to this huge masterpiece. And it also makes a great t-shirt." Reply
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bonafini | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1979
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20,789
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"Amazing, birthed from Townsend's obtuse and failed lifehouse project. Yet The Who's finest collection of individual original songs. Doesn't have the conceptual grandiosity of Quadrophenia and Tommy, but great deep tracks as well as the classics that I long ago burned out on from overlistening." Reply
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1971
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20,467
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 4 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 35 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 300 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 709 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,420 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,399 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,600 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,747 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,968 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 820 | 8% |
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| Neil Young | 43 | 0% | |
| Bob Dylan | 37 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 35 | 0% | |
| Miles Davis | 33 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 32 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 29 | 0% | |
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 25 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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5,012 | 50% | |
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2,653 | 27% | |
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430 | 4% | |
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338 | 3% | |
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218 | 2% | |
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155 | 2% | |
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136 | 1% | |
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