Circles
by Mac Miller

Circles by Mac Miller
Year: 2020
Release date: 2020-01-17
Overall rank: 1,534th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 310 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2020 (18th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 2020s (69th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,534th)

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Circles is ranked as the best album by Mac Miller.

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Overall rank: 1,534th | 2020s rank: 69th | 2020 rank: 18th  Overall chart history
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77/100 (from 310 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.


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85/100
Circles is everything a posthumous album should be: fulfilling an artist's intended vision and completing the important final touches to a closing chapter when they're spiritually not with us.
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80/100
Posthumous releases are often disappointing. But Mac Miller's Circles is a true pearl. It sounds so nice, smoothy and jazzy. Rest in peace Mac your last work is unexpectedly one of your best.
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85/100
A beautiful, tragic album from a talented artist that died too young. I've always appreciated Mac Miller's music but never really connected with it in the way so many other people have. With Circles, I feel like I finally have that connection. So many of Miller's lyrics give off a hopeful message. It really seems like in his final months, he was finding the happiness that he so desperately wanted. Makes it all the more tragic knowing the happiness didn't last.

Favorite tracks: Blue World, Good News, Hand Me Downs, Everybody.
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65/100
Great album, I've been sleeping on Mac Miller's music for his whole life when I should have gave it a chance. RIP
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90/100
I got to him too late and wish I'd listened when he was still here. Really great chill but thoughtful music.
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