Heaven & Hell
by Ava Max
Ava Max bestography
Heaven & Hell is ranked as the best album by Ava Max.
(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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Heaven & Hell track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 70 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Heaven & Hell rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Gallowtree | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 32/100 | 9 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | B-Sides And Badlands: 40 Favorite Albums & EPs of 2020 | 35/40 | - |
| 2025 |  DommeDamian | 2020 outliers | 86/100 | - |
| 2025 | DJStuart79 | Top 43 Music Albums of 2020 | 11/43 | 4 |
| 2024 | Gallowtree | Top 43 Music Albums of 2020 | 8/43 | 4 |
| 2023 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Ava Max - Ranked | 2/2 | - |
| 2023 |  Listmeister | Top 28 Music Albums of 2020 | 2/28 | 5 |
| 2020 | Gaffa | 20 bedste udenlandske album | 19/20 | 1 |
| 2020 | Idolator | The 70 Best Pop Albums Of 2020 | 69/70 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 22 | |||
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Heaven & Hell ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/31/2025 14:39 | Ilanito | 1 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/29/2024 20:53 | Gallowtree | 645 | 77/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2024 16:30 | javicho07 | 3,074 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/26/2023 10:21 | LosWochos | 46,711 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2023 00:00 | dougcummings | 2,027 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.3/100, a mean average of 64.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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Ava Max's "Heaven & Hell" showcases conceptual ambition rarely seen in a pop debut. Postponed multiple times and reshuffled with hits like "Salt", "Torn", "Sweet but Psycho" and "So Am I", the album could have felt like a patchwork of radio-friendly singles. Instead, these tracks slot in seamlessly, proving that Ava's early hits were always meant to find their home here. This is a debut that surely acknowledges commercial pressures, yet without sacrificing cohesion.
Conceptually, "Heaven & Hell" is split in two sides: Side A (Heaven) delivers heavenly dance-pop anthems with catchy hooks, while Side B (Hell) dives into darker, moodier sounds. The narrative arc is clever, even more that the dancepop banger "Torn" occupies the Purgatory.
It feels like Max navigates formulaic beats with enough skill to make even the more pedestrian tracks feel listenable, though moments like "Tattoo" and "Call Me Tonight" expose the limits of radio-friendly design. However, where the album shines, it does spectacularly. Tracks like "Born to the Night", "Take You to Hell" and "Torn" highlight her vocals, her emotional resonance and production instincts. Even when lyrics flirt with cringe, Max's melodies and atmospheric layering keep the songs compelling. "Heaven & Hell" nods to different decades of pop, from 80s dancepop to 2010s synth without feeling derivative, and its hits cement her as both a chart presence and a conceptual artist.
Commercially, "Heaven & Hell" validated Ava Max's presence in the pop sphere. Charting on the Billboard 200 for nearly seven months, still charting in parts of Europe and producing global hits that dominated the pop charts worldwide, the album showcases mainstream accessibility, but with a conceptual spine.
Overall, "Heaven & Hell" is an easy listen and an undeniably catchy record, even if it plays it safe. While Max demonstrates her ability to create memorable hooks with atmospheric production, the lyrics rarely rise above standard pop fare, and the album sometimes shows little of her personality. However, its nostalgic nods to the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s situate it as a pop debut that is basic but in an expert way, occasionally formulaic, yet consistently entertaining.
VictorVale 10/24/2020 14:10 | #259719
Pop descompromissado e divertido.
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