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).
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"A lonely walk in a boundless desert, under the beating sun, on the edge between dream and reality, in which rarified melodies blend with whispered voices." Reply
"If BEA consisted of only black metal, this would be its OK Computer." Reply
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"This currently is ranked 146th in 1964, which is ridiculous; it's obviously an all-time great album." Reply
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"Very, very impressive live album. The piano performance by Shoji Aketagawa really pulls it all together for me, so much so that to me it is high on my list of best jazz piano recordings. And then I look through Discogs and realize how much music has been released under Aketa's Disk and Offbeat Re..." [+] Reply
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"This album and it's companion piece, world gone wrong, are possibly the two most underrated albums of Bob Dylan's recording career. This album especially, is a great folk record. It's Dylan's first all acoustic album for 28 years, and Bob's guitar playing here is a lot better than it was on that ..." [+] Reply
"I love the song "Ms. California," I think it's one of my favorite songs of the year so far -- insanely catchy but still very felt. I couldn't get as into the rest of the record, though that's not to say the rest is bad, I just didn't find it as striking. The lead singer, Lili Trifilio, has a real..." [+] Reply
"NMAs finest, and maybe most commercial hour. Title track and Space are classic songs but the whole album is very tight." Reply
"Nice to see Dylan's 'I'll Keep It With Mine' on the album." Reply
"Fairly flavorless new wave album, the musical equivalent of colored water." Reply
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Overall Chart composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 2 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 37 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 303 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 719 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 1,436 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 1,432 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 1,610 | 16% | |
| 2000s | 1,736 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1,994 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 731 | 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% | |
| Neil Young | 26 | 0% | |
| Various Artists | 25 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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5,014 | 50% | |
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2,664 | 27% | |
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432 | 4% | |
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317 | 3% | |
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222 | 2% | |
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159 | 2% | |
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136 | 1% | |
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