Overall Chart
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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"Album of the year 1956" Reply
"I don't think they went down hill after their first album, i think the album was better than their first, why do people say that it was worse than the first? was it the introduction to the piano on the album, or the additional instruments that they used on the album like the brass or strings, i d..." [+] Reply
"A Transcensional album that invites the reason to a higher being or lore. A calm of spiritual enlightening." Reply
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"Amazing opener: How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep. Shuffle, Lights Out, Words Gone and Leave it are the only other decent songs rest is filler." Reply
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"my favorite album of german conductor/composer Eberhard Schoener: progresive rock meets Balinese gamelan orchestra. with famous side musicians of that time such as: Claire Torry (Pink Floyd) Ian Bairnson (Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush) Pete York Morris Pert (Alan Parsons Project, Mike Oldfield)..." [+] Reply
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"Hip hop is a genre that is heavily based on lyrics, so if you take them out of the equation, it brings everything else down, too. Now, if I reflect on my favorite hip hop albums, the vast majority of them focus on production rather than rapping/lyrics, but this one here is something different, it..." [+] Reply
"Nice variety of styles and use of multiple instruments which gives a slightly different flavor. But Neil's Neil. An unmistakable voice. Overall though, I found this a trifle dull." Reply
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Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 35 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 300 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 707 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,419 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,396 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,600 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,748 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,973 | 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% | |
| Various Artists | 25 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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5,016 | 50% | |
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2,651 | 27% | |
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429 | 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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Best Artists of
the 1980s
1.
The Smiths
2.
Prince
3.
The Cure
4.
Pixies
6.
U2
7.
Metallica
8.
Kate Bush
9.
R.E.M.
10.
The Stone Roses
