News Of The World
by Queen
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Queen bestography
News Of The World is ranked 5th best out of 52 albums by Queen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Queen is A Night At The Opera which is ranked number 109 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,262.
(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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News Of The World track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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News Of The World 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 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1970s Pt 2 | 11/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Milhaud | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 29/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 30 Music Albums of 1977 | 27/30 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 91 Music Albums of 1977 | 91/91 | 0 |
| 2026 | CjHubb117 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 75/100 | 25 |
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 10 Music Albums of 1977 | 9/10 | 1 |
| 2026 |  djrodo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 92/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 51 Music Albums of 1977 | 30/51 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 387 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,724 | |||
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News Of The World ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/10/2026 12:28 | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2026 04:04 | brent13 | 2,227 | 66/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2026 08:37 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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News Of The World forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026View latest topic →
BestEverAlbums 09/28/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5449): By junodog4View latest topic →
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News Of The World comments
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Queen's most mainstream sounding album since their start is this one. Not a bad thing. Diverse album too, which includes slow piano ballads like All Dead All Dead and My Melancholy Blues, rock songs like It's Late, We Will Rock You, Sheer Heart Attack, among others, and an interesting psychedelic treat in the very polarizing, Get Down Make Love. This is a must listen for Queen fans.
First three, Spread Your Wings and It's Late are all amazing. While I was expecting weak album tracks in comparison to the two giants looming over this album, these are all pretty good. None I would describe as weak or an after thought. Huge step up from A Day At The Races.
Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/21/2018 13:39 | #221391 | TOP COMMENT
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I don’t regret listening this, but this album is such a bummer. While on A Night at the Opera you can hear that the theatrical sound serves for a big part for a certain sense of humor, on this album it is supposed to sound ‘epic’ or some shit like that. They were taking themselves too serious and you can hear that.
This album is much more stripped back yet more 'electronic' sounding in places and the synthesizer was yet to appear on a Queen album. The first two tracks have been played to death but there are some lesser known gems hidden on this album. I particularly like 'It's Late' which provides some searing guitar work complimented by skin splitting drumming.
Goliath 11/21/2018 11:42 | #225392 | TOP COMMENT
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Queen's second best after Night at the Opera, the usual focus is on the first two tracks, but there is no filler on this album, (who Needs You gets close), every track is worth listening to.
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