Ye
by Kanye West

Ye by Kanye West
Year: 2018
Release date: 2018-06-01
Overall rank: 1,851st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 697 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2018 (28th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (297th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,851st)

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Kanye West bestography

Ye is ranked 8th best out of 15 albums by Kanye West on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Kanye West is My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy which is ranked number 34 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 22,135.

Kanye West album bestography « Higher ranked (604th)
808s & Heartbreak
This album (1,851st)
Ye
Lower ranked (2,105th) »
Donda

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Ye track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Ye rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,851st | 2010s rank: 297th | 2018 rank: 28th
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2026TroutMaskGregTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s30/10014
2026saltysurpriseTop 100 Music Albums of 201837/1003
2026mjp11Top 38 Music Albums of 201814/383
2026stareaterogni0nTop 15 Music Albums of the 2010s14/153
2026 SomethingSpecialKanye West Ranked8/12 -
2026blueandthemoonTop 39 Music Albums of 201836/391
2026TroutMaskGregTop 29 Music Albums of 20186/294
2026 PurplepashRanked listening log 2018 201-29547/95 -
2026leniadTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s68/1007
2026sweetnessTop 50 Music Albums of 201811/504
2026VanillaBeanTop 41 Music Albums of 201832/411
2026 paladisiac2010s 65rating (65.94-65.42), #001-100*25/60 -
2026 AAL2014Top 53 Music Albums of 201841/531
2026sunnydhammTop 55 Music Albums of 201842/551
2025 PasticheTop 35 Music Albums of 20186/354
2025Rm12398Top 30 Music Albums of 201817/302
2025 travelfulTop 100 Music Albums of 201831/1004
2025 KeatownrodriguezTop 53 Music Albums of 201822/533
2025 AlvaroIesusTop 90 Music Albums of the 2010s33/9013
2025 seb7Top 21 Music Albums of 201820/210
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 234
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 905
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 697 votes)
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3 days ago araidernomore  Ratings distribution  44270/100
 
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04/05/2026 17:38 DommeDamian  Ratings distribution  7,33449/100
 
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04/01/2026 19:44 NowhereMan  Ratings distribution  1,43178/100
 
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04/01/2026 16:11 ideoteque  Ratings distribution  3688/100
 
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03/10/2026 15:50 TroutMaskGreg  Ratings distribution  1,72369/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 70.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.

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40/100
From 03/24/2022 02:41 | #283287
Ghost Town is arguably Kanye's greatest song!
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75/100
From 01/22/2022 01:46 | #279807
77.14

Un disco malo hasta la llegada de las dos últimas canciones. Ghost Town tiene unas melodías y samples hermosas. Me voy dando cuenta que a más antiguas son las samples que mete el Kanye, mejores le salen sus canciones. Y por otro lado está Violent Crimes, con una letra tremenda sobre un tema sensible. El disco más olvidable del Kanye que he escuchado hasta ahora. No es lo peor de lo peor, pero sí de lo más flojo de Kanye.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 09/07/2021 00:02 | #273398
Este álbum es mejor de lo que recordaba, es muy bueno, le doy un 9/10
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70/100
From 02/10/2021 19:07 | #266134
Annoyed by how much I like this haha
It is way too short, these 7 track albums should just be labelled as EPs. Do not want to be paying LP prices for this on vinyl.
Can't stop listening to "I Thought About Killing You". Some parts of the album annoy me but other than that it is pretty solid.
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55/100
From 01/10/2021 13:01 | #264138
"Yikes" and "Ghost Town" are cool songs. The other songs are ok, but they seem kinda random. Nothing I would hear again.
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80/100
From 12/09/2020 15:53 | #262384
Short and a bit lacking in some areas, also not as innovative as his other albums.
nonetheless still a good album with some top tier songs like Ghost Town and Yikes
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Rating:  
70/100
From 09/17/2019 10:17 | #242714
Em meio ao turbilhão criativo e produtivo de Kanye o álbum apresenta alguns pontos repetitivos.
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90/100
From 06/17/2019 01:40 | #237674
Out of all of 2018's Kanye's producted albums this is really the only one I found myself hugging into. As the fella down of me said, I think "ye" hit me way more harder than "KID SEE GHOSTS", wich is strange, knowing that Ye is a stripped down hip-hop album, with almost nothing really experimental or diferent about it, and KSG is all gourgeous and complicated, I still think "ye" is way, way more truer.

I don't know, there is just this sincerity to It that I really like from an artist. The First track makes what I'm saying really clear but, It isn't the only part.

"Ghost Town" might very well be my favorite track of him, the beginning of It is amazing, but the end is just perfect.

I do believe this album is at least his best work since MBDTF, and personally I like It even better.
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90/100
From 03/22/2019 08:05 | #233882
Not in the majority at all here but I think this puts KSG to shame. Ye brings the same psychotic energy of Yeezus and MBDTF but without monumental instrumentation. Whether it was intentional or not, we see Kanye as less of a mythical figure, and more as a normal person. I just wish it was longer.
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85/100
From 02/16/2019 00:48 | #232014
Pretty underrated album. A brave look into a mentally ill mind that creates some of Kanye's most mature music to date
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