The Understanding
by Röyksopp

The Understanding by Röyksopp
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-06-27
Overall rank: 9,035th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 69 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (171st)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,561st)
Award Best albums of all time (9,035th)

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Röyksopp bestography

The Understanding is ranked 4th best out of 12 albums by Röyksopp on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Röyksopp is Melody A.M. which is ranked number 1879 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 896.

Röyksopp album bestography « Higher ranked (8,871st)
Profound Mysteries
This album (9,035th)
The Understanding
Lower ranked (12,597th) »
Do It Again

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The Understanding track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Understanding rankings

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Overall rank: 9,035th | 2000s rank: 1,561st | 2005 rank: 171st

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 69 votes)
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75/100
 
04/13/2026 13:56 Liks_on_music  Ratings distribution  58881/100
 
70/100
 
12/07/2025 20:23 Araldo  Ratings distribution  1,47280/100
 
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11/06/2025 01:10 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,19983/100
 
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08/31/2025 13:42 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,41564/100
 
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06/04/2025 15:59 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,36836/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.4.

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80/100
From 02/29/2020 10:25 | #248327
The most European thing you'll ever hear. I love it; it perfectly mixes pop and downtempo, in the same way Air mixed vocal jazz with downtempo.
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From 04/20/2019 14:30 | #235285
Average dance pop. I expected more after the auspicious debut.
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From 10/13/2018 14:07 | #222488
So underrated, but a great album. You can get it for a very good price in the limited edition with 5 extra tracks.
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