You Want It Darker
by Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen bestography
You Want It Darker is ranked 4th best out of 27 albums by Leonard Cohen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Leonard Cohen is Songs Of Leonard Cohen which is ranked number 140 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,488.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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You Want It Darker track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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You Want It Darker rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Esquire (UK) The 20 Best Albums Of 2016 | 6/20 | - |
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | AllMusic Best of 2016 | 31/50 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Mucchio Selvaggio I 30 migliori album del 2016 | 30/30 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Exclaim! Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums 2016 | 10/20 | - |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | pjerske | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | De Morgen Dit zijn de belangrijkste platen van 2016 | 5/10 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 86 Music Albums of 2016 | 25/86 | 4 |
| 2026 | gregthealien | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 63/100 | 37 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 406 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,803 | |||
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You Want It Darker ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 30 hours ago | ASOARE | 2,499 | 77/100 |
| ! | 38 hours ago |  imimesis | 2,117 | 81/100 |
| ! | 08/13/2026 09:00 |  DommeDamian | 7,765 | 48/100 |
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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 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.
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You Want It Darker forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 07/13/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5372): By gregthealien
pedro1976 06/30/2026 20:25 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)You Want It Darker comments
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Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/06/2023 23:02 | #296704
Absolutely incredible. Only wished I'd got on board earlier. More emotional than the brilliant Blackstar that it's obviously compared to. What a way to go out. I bought this and played it 3x straight. (Edited)
Jboy56 01/27/2022 15:59 | #280190
I want it darker. A moody album.
VictorValeAnd so begins the sad part of the list. I can’t fathom what it’s like to know you’re dying, let alone muster up all your energy to make an album about it. Thankfully, Leonard Cohen is a million times the man I am, and so eloquent is his way that you can imagine hospices using this to prepare people to join the choir invisible.
Best track: You Want It Darker. His voice was just a thin smoke at this point, but you can feel so much soul in his words.
A masterpiece of our time!!! (Edited)
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