Born This Way
by Lady Gaga
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Lady Gaga bestography
Born This Way is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Lady Gaga on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lady Gaga is The Fame Monster which is ranked number 1582 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,084.
(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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Born This Way track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 66 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Born This Way rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2011 | 18/20 | 1 |
| 2026 |  TheDarkOrb | Top 36 Music Albums of 2011 | 6/36 | 4 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 30 Music Albums of 2011 | 2/30 | 5 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 53 Music Albums of 2011 | 53/53 | 0 |
| 2026 |  CassidyInc | Top 17 Greatest Music Albums | 6/17 | 67 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Top 14 Music Albums of 2011 | 7/14 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 32 America Usa 4 | 53/58 | - |
| 2026 | mikepen | Top 32 Music Albums of 2011 | 27/32 | 1 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 84 Music Albums of 2011 | 80/84 | 0 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 7 | 19/30 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 156 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 970 | |||
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Born This Way ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/12/2026 17:44 | Jakor | 5,537 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2026 02:06 | mikepen | 375 | 84/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 17:28 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 58.1/100, a mean average of 57.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 57.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 26.1.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/09/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5399): By chisholm.matt
pedro1976 04/16/2026 16:39 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Romanelli 06/21/2024 13:32 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Reach The BeachBorn This Way comments
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One of the best albums of all time. I definitely think it is underrated and one day will get its flowers. It's such a unique blend of electronic sounds, avant-garde melodies and rock influences on a pop platter. Exquisite! (Edited)
Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 2012. The winner was 21 by Adele (Edited)
This album was so good do not understand why the ratings are so low. Guess the hipsters on this site only like their generic indie bands. (Edited)
Gaga was at the height of her fame when this album was due - two great pop albums, the overlong and undercooked The Fame with its soaring singles followed quickly by the The Fame Monster when the wider world came round to what a talent she possessed.
It seems that Born this Way is struggling to live up to the hype Lady Gaga herself believed in. A massive statement of a lead single (that drew obvious parallels to Madonna - much to each diva’s chagrin) and way too many ideas fleshing out the track list - it’s way too long and there exists a “deluxe” album that has 3 additional filler songs inserted randomly within the track list itself. Songs like Scheise are fun, but could have been resigned to a bonus disc. Songs like Bad Kids are downright terrible.
I like Electric Chapel a lot, the excellent Yoü & I, Edge of Glory seem to attempt to defy the classic pop trope of front loading your album and Marry the Night is infectious. To properly give it its dues. I can bypass the ham fisted lyrics and enjoy Express Yourself. Erm, wait... I mean “Born this Way”. (Edited)
planetneutral 03/01/2021 04:03 | #266814
An album that weirdly springs to life just as it's ending. (Edited)
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