The Spirit Room
by Michelle Branch
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Michelle Branch bestography
The Spirit Room is ranked as the best album by Michelle Branch.
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The Spirit Room track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Spirit Room rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 92 Music Albums of 2001 | 74/92 | 1 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 59 Music Albums of 2001 | 28/59 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 2001 Pt 2 | 9/33 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2001 Pt 2 | 13/68 | - |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 56/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | LordMark | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 71/100 | 29 |
| 2025 |  desh79 | Top 99 Music Albums of 2001 | 97/99 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | henrygreen0203 | Top 31 Music Albums of 2001 | 10/31 | 4 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top 60r albums (60), #0101-0200* | 89/99 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 30 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 218 | |||
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The Spirit Room ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/10/2026 10:06 | Tamthebam | 23,254 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2025 12:50 | Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2025 07:44 | TonySayers61 | 25,572 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.
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NoisyBeast 04/08/2023 06:27 in What album are you listening to right now?The Spirit Room comments
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I completely agree with user below, this album holds up really well as an Early-2000’s pop album.
Compared to what was released by most of Michelle Branch’s other pop contemporaries, The Spirit Room can stand as one of the best albums of the genre and one of the better albums of the Early-2000’s era of pop music. (Edited)
As far as pop albums go, this one has aged surprisingly well. I love it just as much now as I did in the early 2000s. (Edited)
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