Overall Chart

Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 58,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
You can customise how this chart is generated, browse the individual charts constituting the overall rankings from The Charts page, or submit your own chart from the My Charts page!
View chart at point in time
 Show this chart as it was on the following date
(... Or view the overall chart history).
Share this chart
  • RSS feed: RSS
  • Download CSV file: Log in / register
  • Play on Spotify:
  • URL to this chart:
Collector's summary (top 1,000) Help The maximum rank used by the Collector's Summary is configurable from your profile (top 1,000 is currently selected). Log in or register to discover the great albums that are missing from your music collection!
Sort Sort by
"Music and lyrics go great together. It must have been a fine day when they found that out! Over time the idea stuck and lyric writing became a way to vent frustration, anger, sadness, joy, etc. Many other artists are do it to get their "message" across. I'm not sure where this album lies. Very ve..."  [+]  Reply
- | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
1996
Appears in:
Rank Score:
873
Rank in 1996:
Rank in 1990s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"You're welcome, Precedent. Just glad you appreciated that, it took me a few listens to. With that, disregard my previous comment, there are so many peaks that make up the album and make it so extra-special."  Reply
- SuedeSwede | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
2002
Appears in:
Rank Score:
871
Rank in 2002:
Rank in 2000s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Year of Release:
1981
Appears in:
Rank Score:
870
Rank in 1981:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"Funny how some claim this album is a "guilty pleasure" I disagree, it's just a legit great album. It's catchy and delightful and the hits are freaking nostalgic. I love it."  Reply
- ExTeaSea | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
1981
Appears in:
Rank Score:
870
Rank in 1981:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"Okay, so.. Paramore... I never payed too much attention to this band, I knew that song with the Twilight vid + I guess I heard a couple of their most famous songs at one point or another, without really caring about them. Didn't seem like my thing at all. Still, after seeing that this album was h..."  [+]  Reply
- 19loveless91 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
2013
Appears in:
Rank Score:
869
Rank in 2013:
Rank in 2010s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"Basie's best record is a classic for Big Band Jazz. Arranged by Neal Hefti and featuring some great tenor sax work by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Easy to see how this recording rejuvenated Basie's career. Best Tracks: Midnite, Fantail, Spanky, Duet, Teddy the Toad."  Reply
- WickedThunder | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
1958
Appears in:
Rank Score:
869
Rank in 1958:
Rank in 1950s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"The tone of this album is a melancholic and meditational mixture of Western and Eastern existentialism allied with a sense of Christian piety and exotic detachment. Gabriel's masterpiece is first and foremost an ethereal and evocative study in 'sound' which acts as a kind of catalyst for the semi..."  [+]  Reply
- hairymarx1 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
1989
Appears in:
Rank Score:
869
Rank in 1989:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"Damon Gough's greatest album. It's an eclectic record, full of fantastic songs and is an excellent musical journey through different moods and styles. A modern day British classic."  Reply
- garycottier | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
2000
Appears in:
Rank Score:
867
Rank in 2000:
Rank in 2000s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"Elbow have self-classified themselves as "prog without the solos," an assessment I cannot dispute. There are times when Guy Garver sounds exactly like Peter Gabriel, which I consider high praise (even if it's a tad disconcerting for the listener). And although I think Build a Rocket Boys! could d..."  [+]  Reply
- zdwyatt | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
2011
Appears in:
Rank Score:
867
Rank in 2011:
Rank in 2010s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
"My favorite of theirs, by a decent margin. The perfect balance between their super heavy sludgey stuff and the progy sound they evolved to later. Full of great riffs, and Brahn Dailor's drumming is as top notch as ever."  Reply
- Ben4 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
Year of Release:
2006
Appears in:
Rank Score:
867
Rank in 2006:
Rank in 2000s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Total albums: 10,000. Page 192 of 1,000

Overall Chart composition

Popular  Charts
1. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone (2020)
2. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time by New Music Express (2013)
3. 100 Best Albums - 2024 Edition by Apple Music (2024)
4. 200 Greatest Albums of All Time by Uncut (2016)
5. The Top 100 Albums by VH1 (2001)
6. The Definitive 200 by National Association of Recording Merchandisers (2007)
7. Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums by Virgin (2000)
8. Top 100 Albums by ABC (2006)
9. The Greatest Rock Albums by uDiscoverMusic (2015)
10. Los 48 mejores discos de la historia by Esquire España (2022)
11. Die 100 besten Platten des Jahrhunderts by Wiener (1999)
12. The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time by Consequence of Sound (2022)
13. Greatest 100 Albums of All Time by The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums with NME (2006)
14. Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Melody Maker (2000)
15. Die 20 besten Alben der Geschichte by Musikexpress.de (2011)
16. Die 100 besten Alben der Musikgeschichte by radioeins (2019)
17. Mojo Readers: The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made by Mojo (1996)
18. The 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time by Absolute Radio (2012)
19. The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time (1-100) by Paste (2024)
20. 100 Greatest Albums Ever by Q (2006)