In The Wee Small Hours
by Frank Sinatra
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In The Wee Small Hours is ranked as the best album by Frank Sinatra.
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In The Wee Small Hours track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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In The Wee Small Hours rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 70 Music Albums of the 1950s | 13/70 | 17 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Tom Club (Waits`favs+sound-alikes) | 1/100 | - |
| 2026 | sweetness | Top 25 Music Albums of the 1950s | 16/25 | 8 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Best Album of 1955 | 1/1 | 5 |
| 2026 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 3/100 | 20 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Album Club 301 - | 28/81 | - |
| 2026 |  JR | Top 34 Music Albums of the 1950s | 30/34 | 3 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 5 Music Albums of 1955 | 1/5 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 1955 | 1/50 | 5 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 33 Music Albums of the 1950s | 6/33 | 17 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 504 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4,520 | |||
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In The Wee Small Hours ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 08:53 |  Dingerbell | 4,158 | 63/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2026 16:08 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2026 18:52 | Chorongo | 56 | 91/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.6/100, a mean average of 78.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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In The Wee Small Hours forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5451): By ffudnebbuh BestEverAlbums 06/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5358): By rlang36
pedro1976 12/31/2025 18:19 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)In The Wee Small Hours comments
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if you ever do LSD, listen to this album. even though the lyrics are depressing, the mood it creates is a wonderful air of chill nostalgia. i can only compare it to a 3 year old on christmas morning
The world's first true concept album. Before this, albums were random collections of a performer's greatest hits with no real thought or order given to the sequence and themes of songs on an album. A classic.
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Sitting down on your favourite patio, in the mist of your garden, sipping on a cup of hot chocolate and looking at the pretty sunrise. All of this is distracting yourself from the grim repeating cycle of unrequited love in your life.
The strings in this album are so beautifully dated.
I wonder what makes them sound so different to what we hear today.
Mr. Sinatra at this finest. One of the first "concept" records Frank lays it all out there on this one. You can't get much better than this.
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