The Fame Monster
by Lady Gaga

The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-11-10
Overall rank: 1,600th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 372 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2009 (20th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (259th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,600th)

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The Fame Monster is ranked as the best album by Lady Gaga.

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The Fame Monster
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Overall rank: 1,600th | 2000s rank: 259th | 2009 rank: 20th

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Average Rating: 
68/100 (from 372 votes)
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12 hours ago TerryTezza  Ratings distribution  76078/100
 
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02/17/2026 14:46 marcoserra1966  Ratings distribution  80958/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.6/100, a mean average of 67.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 24.0.

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From 10/21/2025 22:37 | #311412
The dark pop bible. This album will be studied in music schools.
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From 05/13/2025 07:17 | #308968
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2011 Grammys. The winner was The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
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70/100
From 12/23/2023 05:21 | #300604
Gaga just oozes personality, and that alone carries most of this album. The singles are the strongest material, as is common with modern pop albums - but the songs in between remain varied and interesting enough (if occasionally cringe-inducing on the lyrical front). I also love the adventurous electropop sound that the producers put together; lots of it has aged stunningly.
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45/100
From 10/23/2020 18:10 | #259662
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From 12/27/2018 11:23 | #228031
O auge da mãe mostra. Deliciosas batidas eletrônicas, grandes ganchos, voz com personalidade e video clipes e shows impecáveis. A ultima grande superstar!
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90/100
From 12/23/2018 15:13 | #227743
Huh. Seems like all the elitist rockists and prog obsessives deliberately come here to vote down a popular artist’s songs in bulk.
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80/100
From 09/21/2018 09:47 | #221374
I really want to agree with soundguardian’s centrist comment. But taking the middle road on this site is still biased. This album is not supposed to be funny, like The Beach Boys’ Smiley Smile for instance. People need to realize that one’s inner and most sincere thoughts and preferences are just very cringy, and the artists that dare to tap into those feelings that people don’t dare to express, inevitably receive hate from the people that don’t even dare to admit to those feelings, because they think they’re fucking capable of feeling higher emotions, but in fact those emotions are just different and they are denying a part of themselves. And ironically these people often unironically enjoy really laughable music like AC/DC and Guns ‘n’ Roses. “But isn’t that just because you are biased too?” No, because I can actually enjoy some hard rock from other artists; I don’t throw a whole genre in the garbage bin.

About this album: some songs are pretty derivative, but the good ones are very good. Much like her first album.
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From 02/18/2018 01:49 | #208617
Amazing!
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