Dangerously In Love
by Beyoncé

Dangerously In Love by Beyoncé
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-06-24
Overall rank: 5,586th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 157 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (108th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (965th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,586th)

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Beyoncé bestography

Dangerously In Love is ranked 7th best out of 12 albums by Beyoncé on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Beyoncé is Lemonade which is ranked number 454 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,712.

Beyoncé album bestography « Higher ranked (4,536th)
B'Day
This album (5,586th)
Dangerously In Love
Lower ranked (6,541st) »
Homecoming: The Live Album

(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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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 62 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Dangerously In Love rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,586th | 2000s rank: 965th | 2003 rank: 108th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 53 minutes ago).

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Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 157 votes)
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70/100
From 01/24/2024 21:23 | #301455
Not a great album apart from Crazy In Love it really is mediocre
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80/100
A totally solid debut that announces Beyoncé as a major talent. What's more, basically every thematic concern she will wrestle with on later albums is seeded here. Romance, sex, family, fidelity, self-reliance, etc. And it's even more exciting when you know just how much better she gets from here.
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80/100
From 01/04/2019 17:12 | #228905
Carreira solo com dois hits imensos, bem radiofônico.
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Rating:  
90/100
wow, just wow

great album with great production, the only downside to it was the live performances that have nothing to do with how she performs nowadays
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90/100
For a debut album, "Dangerously in Love" is pretty darn good! Some of the songs may sound a little goofy, but it was 2003 anyways. The highlights of the album include the title track, "Crazy In Love", and "The Closer I Get to You". The hate on this album is mainly due to it being her highest selling record to date.
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From 02/08/2016 23:04 | #159157
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60/100
Basically what the others said - a huge album at the time, but her subsequent work is much better.
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70/100
Her debut solo album is the worst of her 5 studio albums. Apart from Crazy In Love & Dangerously In Love and possibly Me Myself I the album is not up to her high standards.
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70/100
From 09/15/2014 02:01 | #121966
Nice enough, but a lot of really samey tracks.
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From 01/25/2014 17:17 | #101496
Crazy In Love is the best here.
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