Madonna
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Madonna by Madonna
Year: 1983
Release date: 1983-07-27
Overall rank: 1,276th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 355 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (22nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (204th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,276th)

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Madonna bestography

Madonna is ranked 3rd best out of 29 albums by Madonna on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Madonna is Ray Of Light which is ranked number 622 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,722.

Madonna album bestography « Higher ranked (825th)
Like A Prayer
This album (1,276th)
Madonna
Lower ranked (1,480th) »
True Blue

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Madonna rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,276th | 1980s rank: 204th | 1983 rank: 22nd  Overall chart history
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Madonna ratings

Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 355 votes)
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07/25/2026 14:30 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,57274/100
 
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06/30/2026 14:54 mostlymor  Ratings distribution  6,97779/100
 
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05/11/2026 14:45 Jakor  Ratings distribution  5,48470/100
 
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05/08/2026 09:41 O.T.  Ratings distribution  89865/100
 
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02/22/2026 10:35 VeVt  Ratings distribution  9740/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.0/100, a mean average of 69.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 21.3.


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85/100
From 07/13/2026 23:00 | #315266
Madonna mais que decodifica, ela talha o que seria considerado pop em seu primeiro álbum. O que falta em profundidade sobre em senso estético. (Edited)
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80/100
From 04/02/2024 09:25 | #302803
A fine debut for a long career.. (Edited)
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90/100
From 04/30/2023 22:07 | #296514
A pretty incredible pop debut. Madonna is not the most skilled vocalist, but she's got personality to spare and is well suited for these uniformly catchy and sweet dance pop gems.
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90/100
From 05/11/2022 15:23 | #285229
In 1983, before Madonna became international Icon MADONNA, she released this self-titled debut. It features somewhat an anonymous, girlish sounding singer delivering dance club fare like "Lucky Star," "Borderline," and my personal fave "Holiday". Nothing really to distinguish this singer from others or what she was to become.
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From 08/20/2020 02:21 | #257225
beginning of a pop star
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100/100
I’m not a huge pop fan but this album is awesome definitely one of the best of the 80s and my favorite Madonna album by far. (Edited)
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85/100
From 12/26/2018 11:01 | #227909
Uma estréia épica! Músicas até hoje reconhecidas e tocadas! (Edited)
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90/100
I know, a 10/10 sounds like too much. The album is certainly flawed, GOD is it flawed. But that is mostly because of the fact that her approach of making music was completely unknown at the time. She makes the song and has a vision and then makes sure she finds a producer that understands her. And if the product isn’t good enough, she doesn’t settle for less and continues her search for the perfect sound. Basically, the same tactic that she advices in her lyrics that should be used in relationships.
It doesn’t sound like a big deal now, because almost all female artists after her, followed this formula, and it was also the most logical outcome for women, because culture has been (and somewhat still is) presenting music production (as well as playing certain instruments) as a male thing.
This approach also created a blueprint for electropop in general. The way that the producer’s creative input is of almost equal importance can be found back in artists like Drake and Future today. Suddenly there wasn’t just one song, there were remixes too; the vocals could be thrown around and reinterpretated endlessly. Again, today it’s hard to realize what the big deal is, because that’s the norm now, but that’s because of Madonna.

And of course she gave a voice to feminine sexuality in music. (Edited)
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90/100
From 02/18/2018 05:11 | #208634
Fun album!
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65/100
From 07/06/2017 18:14 | #193804
And it begun
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