Like A Prayer (studio album) by Madonna

Like A Prayer by Madonna
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 899th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 525 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1989 (13th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (139th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (899th)

Madonna bestography

Like A Prayer is ranked 2nd best out of 26 albums by Madonna on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Madonna is Ray Of Light which is ranked number 700 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,597.

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 525 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 71.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 21.2.

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85/100
From 05/05/2023 22:23
Admittedly, I'm not as into this as her first three albums, but it's still an interesting evolution.
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From 05/03/2022 01:08
Express Yourself is criminally underrated, and its strong rhythm and confident melody are what I find more appealing than those of Like a Prayer.
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From 01/03/2021 17:39
I can't get past wondering how much stronger this might have been if Madonna had been able to commit to the Prince influence throughout.
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From 11/25/2020 15:28
There is not much here besides the first track., which of course is her biggest song by far. Overall, 55/100.
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From 10/23/2019 19:23
Amazing album that redefined pop at the time!
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80/100
From 05/27/2019 22:18
this is her best album from beginning to end you can hear her maturity throughout the album and the Prince song which has been noted in the other comments is fantastic and Madonna co writing the whole album you can tell she had control over the whole thing
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From 01/24/2019 08:27
The first track is a classic, the second a good song, the rest is not up to much.
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From 01/02/2019 16:27
Auge da Madonna do anos 80's que brinca tanto com a igreja quanto com os bons costumes. Todas as gerações de jovens vindouros usufrutuaram da luta da Madonna, principalmente as mulheres.
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From 02/14/2018 02:55
Great fun progressive album. + has Prince in it! (How could they go wrong?)
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From 07/14/2017 05:24
Certainly better than a lot of modern pop albums
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