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: 1 hour ago).
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"It was very brave of the Band to open their debut album with the long, slow and dark "Tears of Rage" . They were praised for this at the time, but now more than three decades later, the song may scare away new listeners which is really a big shame because is one the Band's greatest and probably t..." [+] Reply
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1968
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5,610
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"The courage to put out an album like Twin Fantasy is in itself moving. It always sat as a personal favourite of mine, but one that I never put on a list because a) I couldn't bring myself to, and b) I'd convinced myself it wasn't good enough, as if the despair of listening to it was the only valu..." [+] Reply
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2018
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5,593
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"Britpop's softer and most eloquent side. A songbook for the disenfranchised, Urban Hymns is beautiful from start to finish, capturing the disgruntled tinge of its contemporaries and presenting it in a conversational and delicate attire. It's a flawed masterpiece, too long and too soft for its own..." [+] Reply
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1997
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5,582
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"Listening to it now, it still sounds like the future of rock music. The Cars' debut blended new wave, synth-rock, hard rock, power pop and 50s rock n' roll/rockabilly into a tight, compact and extremely catchy package. It's amazing that the band managed to pack this level of quality into their de..." [+] Reply
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1978
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5,578
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"Mother is reminiscent of the song from another Police album, Be My Girl-Sally. It's also written by Summers, and is about a dude and his sex doll. It's a character song, lighthearted and fun, probably not serious (just like Mother). Mother fits on this album alongside Sting's quirky lyrics and th..." [+] Reply
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1983
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5,553
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"I feel like I'm listening to decent power pop through someone else's earphones on a bus." Reply
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1985
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5,552
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"What characterises Arctic Monkeys as a great band and not just a good band in my opinion is the genius of Alex Turner's lyricism. This album may not have the same blinding wit as their first nor the poetic abstract imagery of their third but that's not to say this album has its own moments of bri..." [+] Reply
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2007
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5,550
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"Definitely an early contender for my favorite album of 2019 (along with Grey Area). Natalie Mering’s voice gives me Joni Mitchell and Nico vibes while still feeling completely new. The instrumentation is beautiful. There's the folky, twangy guitars, lush pianos, strings, synths... it's all perfec..." [+] Reply
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2019
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5,546
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"It's great how rappers can rap over anything these days; no more need being restricted to boom bap drum loops. Atrocity Exhibition might be the best demonstration of this I've heard yet" Reply
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2016
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"I think it's a kind of silly to suggest that people/critics are 'overhyping' this album because they are wary of underrating it like they may of done with Pure Heroine. I believe it's more to do with Pure Heroine being a slowburner; I remember not being very keen the first 5 or even 6 listens but..." [+] Reply
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2017
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5,539
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Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 37 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 303 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 715 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,439 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,435 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,616 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,726 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,999 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 728 | 7% |
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| Bob Dylan | 37 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 35 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 32 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 29 | 0% | |
| Miles Davis | 27 | 0% | |
| Various Artists | 26 | 0% | |
| Neil Young | 25 | 0% | |
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5,011 | 50% | |
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2,666 | 27% | |
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429 | 4% | |
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315 | 3% | |
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222 | 2% | |
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160 | 2% | |
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137 | 1% | |
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| Best Artists of the 1960s | |
|---|---|
| 1. The Beatles | |
| 2. The Velvet Underground | |
| 3. Jimi Hendrix | |
| 4. Bob Dylan | |
| 5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| 6. The Beach Boys | |
| 7. The Velvet Underground & Nico | |
| 8. The Doors | |
| 9. Led Zeppelin | |
| 10. The Rolling Stones | |
| 11. John Coltrane | |
| 12. King Crimson | |
| 13. Frank Zappa | |
| 14. The Kinks | |
| 15. Love | |
| 16. Neil Young | |
| 17. Charles Mingus | |
| 18. Van Morrison | |
| 19. Miles Davis | |
| 20. Simon & Garfunkel |




