FanMail
by TLC

FanMail by TLC
Year: 1999
Release date: 1999-02-23
Overall rank: 5,258th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 76 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1999 (67th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (851st)
Award Best albums of all time (5,258th)

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TLC bestography

FanMail is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by TLC on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by TLC is CrazySexyCool which is ranked number 2432 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 660.

TLC album bestography « Higher ranked (2,432nd)
CrazySexyCool
This album (5,258th)
FanMail
Lower ranked (11,912th) »
Ooooooohhh.... On The TLC Tip

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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FanMail rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,258th | 1990s rank: 851st | 1999 rank: 67th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 6 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 76 votes)
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13 hours ago cicadelic  Ratings distribution  13,45573/100
 
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05/31/2026 03:00 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,28770/100
 
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01/04/2026 03:04 culwin  Ratings distribution  1,53975/100
 
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08/11/2025 16:48 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,84865/100
 
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06/24/2025 02:46 lanadeleswift  Ratings distribution  3,73486/100

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From 07/15/2025 10:23 | #310116
R&B album of the year at the 2000 Grammys
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 2000. The Winner was Supernatural by Santana
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90/100
This upbeat R&B sound proved to be succesful in the decades to come from Destiny's Child to Doja Cat. I think it has become so overarching that people don't even notice it anymore; it's become like oxygen.
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70/100
A really different kind of TLC album. Sounds very techno-pop without being shallow. The second half is lacking.
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50/100
Completely fine. Nothing that blows me away, but nothing to turn my nose up either.
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75/100
"Fanmail" threw chlli front-and-center the most. It worked well. "no scrubs" and "unpretty" are the standouts, but other strong songs include the attitude of "silly ho", the faux-romance of the near-porn "i'm good at being bad", "shout", the personal exorcism of "dear lie" and "love sick". Of course, for a group whose first major hit was about begging for sex and their image sported a plethora of condoms (or is it a gaggle of condoms?), they don't let up on this album, declaring their "!@#$'s so tight, will make you c@m all night" in "i'm good at being bad" and close the album with a song called "don't pull out on me yet" (wink wink).
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