Randy Newman
by Randy Newman

Randy Newman by Randy Newman
Year: 1968
Overall rank: 9,372nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 54 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1968 (126th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (683rd)
Award Best albums of all time (9,372nd)

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Randy Newman bestography

Randy Newman is ranked 5th best out of 35 albums by Randy Newman on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Randy Newman is Sail Away which is ranked number 1662 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,014.

Randy Newman album bestography « Higher ranked (7,953rd)
Little Criminals
This album (9,372nd)
Randy Newman
Lower ranked (12,395th) »
Dark Matter

(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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Randy Newman rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 9,372nd | 1960s rank: 683rd | 1968 rank: 126th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 54 votes)
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70/100
 
02/07/2026 08:08 PurplePiePete  Ratings distribution  1,81680/100
 
65/100
 
11/17/2025 03:55 MaxStorm98  Ratings distribution  3,79889/100
 
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07/18/2025 16:22 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,79163/100
 
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11/25/2024 23:06 slatsheit  Ratings distribution  2,04181/100
 
85/100
 
11/15/2024 18:08 davidleewrong  Ratings distribution  2,33781/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.7/100, a mean average of 70.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.

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75/100
From 02/20/2023 07:20 | #294241
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From 06/06/2017 19:13 | #192152
Amazing songwriting. Original, quirky, funny and moving. The start of a great run of albums from Newman with, I think it's going to rain today, the beautiful highlight. Great stuff.
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90/100
From 01/08/2016 18:50 | #156131
This album is very short and sweet, but it's the perfect place to start listening to Randy Newman, not so much of the later acidic comedy boy stuff, but still enough subtlety and irony-tinged popular tunesmithery to keep your interest play after play. Classy.
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From 03/02/2011 14:37 | #18855
I think that this is his first album for Warner Bros.
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3. Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
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