Overall Chart
Listed below are the overall rankings for the best albums in history as determined by their aggregate positions in over 59,000 different greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com! (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
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"Swooning in to rescue late 80's radio from dreck like late career Phil Collins, Michael Bolton and Roxette, Orbison's voice was a beautiful relief." Reply
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1989
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"The decemberists' "castaways and cutouts" is a literary yarn of sea shanties and seaside romance gone awry full of parapets and petticoats. Literary alt-rock with a unique lyrical P.O.V. (vs all the other alt-rock out there) with songs like "here I dreamt I was an architect" (an architect who "bu..." [+] Reply
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2002
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489
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"The most fun a Jeff Rosenstock album has ever been--which is saying something." Reply
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2020
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489
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"For Real is an absolutely incredible song.." Reply
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2005
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"No one is more in the bag for this record. It took To Pimp a Butterfly to beat it for my AOTY the year their debut was released. The Underside of Power does not have the immediacy of Algiers' self-titled, which is really to this record's benefit. There's more room for variety, for atmosphere, for..." [+] Reply
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2017
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488
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"Great album by a great songwriter. Jackson Browne is underrated on this site (In my opinion)." Reply
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1976
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488
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"The dawn of Post-Punk, along with The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees and Real Life by Magazine." Reply
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1978
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488
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"Hmm, would you look at that. User SaulCortes1992 has given the album a 5/100 rating two weeks before the album is released. Looking at his charts, not surprised to see yet another elitist rockist user on here." Reply
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2019
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"This defied all my expectations. I thought it was going to be 'generic King Gizzard material', but this record may be one of their best, if not their best album to date. Very consistent from start to finish. I can't even tell which songs are my favorites because every one of them is amazing!" Reply
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2019
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"This is extremely underrated. Top 5 Sonic Youth album most definitely." Reply
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2004
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Total albums: 10,000. Page 312 of 1,000
Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 34 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 302 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 710 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,425 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,413 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,602 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,720 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,967 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 825 | 8% |
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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% | |
| Neil Young | 26 | 0% | |
| Various Artists | 25 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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4,997 | 50% | |
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2,657 | 27% | |
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432 | 4% | |
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337 | 3% | |
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221 | 2% | |
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157 | 2% | |
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134 | 1% | |
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