Cold Fact
by Rodriguez
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Rodriguez bestography
Cold Fact is ranked as the best album by Rodriguez.
(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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Cold Fact track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Cold Fact rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 60 Music Albums of 1970 | 55/60 | 1 |
| 2026 | craab | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 95/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Upcoming Album Club Picks 1 | 18/100 | - |
| 2026 |  djrodo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 23/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 49 Music Albums of 1970 | 41/49 | 1 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 20th Century | 65/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Milhaud | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 40/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 11 Music Albums of 1970 | 4/11 | 4 |
| 2026 | Stevo796 | Top 12 Music Albums of 1970 | 11/12 | 1 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 80 Music Albums of the 1970s | 12/80 | 17 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 224 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,122 | |||
Cold Fact collection
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Cold Fact ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/24/2026 20:00 | ecocruzr | 258 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2026 04:46 | Sonoffatboy | 530 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 02:20 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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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 78.7/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
Cold Fact favourites
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Cold Fact forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5463): By arthur237View latest topic →
BestEverAlbums 12/01/2025 17:03 in Monthly overall chart movements - November 2025View latest topic →
imacgill 06/11/2024 23:29 in What album are you listening to right now?View all forum mentions
Cold Fact comments
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Pity it's taken so long for his extraordinary talent to be recognised. Thanks to the award winning documentary "Searching For Sugarman", he is now getting the long overdue accolades he deserves. The film does fall short though on fact with no mention he was as popular in New Zealand and Australia as in South Africa. In fact it was an Australian record company that reissued his 2 albums after they were on longer available in the US plus a "Best Of" 1977 compilation and a live album of his Australian tour in 1979. He is truly a music legend and one of my all time favourites. (Edited)
I grew up listening to this album. It was huge in South Africa but failed in the US, the very country Rodriguez is from. It is very tragic for such an amazing record. (Edited)
Medelsvensson 12/01/2017 14:33 | #202446 | TOP COMMENT
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One who should've been classic. Just like Forever Changes, massively underappreciated. Endless amound of masterpiece songs. Crucify your mind and Inner city blues are the best (Edited)
Timhop 12/17/2014 19:37 | #129553 | TOP COMMENT
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A favourite, like the movie said, for most white Saffies, myself included. But really NOT the soundtrack of the anti-apartheid movement. Most black South Africans had never heard of this guy. (Edited)
Like a lot of people thanks to Searching For Sugar Man this album has had a new re/birth . It does look cool in vinyl junkies collections but it is actually a great album. (Edited)
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