Nevermind
by Nirvana

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Nevermind by Nirvana
Year: 1991
Release date: 1991-09-24
Overall rank: 13th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
87/100 (from 4,367 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Best album of 1991 (1st)
Award Top 10 albums of of the 1990s (2nd)
Award Top 20 albums of all time (13th)

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Nevermind is ranked as the best album by Nirvana.

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Nevermind track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 87 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Smells Like Teen Spirit
Average Rating: 92 (1,356 votes)Comments: View 35
2.
In Bloom
Average Rating: 89 (1,012 votes)Comments: View 9
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Come As You Are
Average Rating: 91 (1,161 votes)Comments: View 13
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Breed
Average Rating: 86 (824 votes)Comments: View 11
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Lithium
Average Rating: 91 (1,081 votes)Comments: View 10
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Polly
Average Rating: 86 (832 votes)Comments: View 11
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Territorial Pissings
Average Rating: 82 (768 votes)Comments: View 10
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Drain You
Average Rating: 86 (793 votes)Comments: View 10
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Lounge Act
Average Rating: 84 (759 votes)Comments: View 11
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Stay Away
Average Rating: 82 (754 votes)Comments: View 7
11.
On A Plain
Average Rating: 85 (784 votes)Comments: View 10
12.
Something In The Way
Average Rating: 87 (849 votes)Comments: View 15

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Nevermind rankings

Nevermind rankings summary
Overall rank: 13th | 1990s rank: 2nd | 1991 rank: 1st  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).
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2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 199116/1004
2026 Robert Anton WilsonTop 13 Music Albums of 19911/135
2026 seb7Top 12 Music Albums of 19914/124
2026 DommeDamianJune 26: 1-10097/100 -
2026mostlymorTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s31/10014
2026matterhornriderTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s3/10020
2026RiveraTop 100 Greatest Music Albums72/10028
2026PurpleHazelTop 36 Music Albums of 19914/365
2026 xo66Top 100 Greatest Music Albums83/10017
2026MusemanTop 59 Music Albums of the 1990s10/5917
2026vruslovTop 87 Music Albums of 19912/875
2026 spigelwiiTop 7 Music Albums of 19911/75
2026 rambleon80Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s26/10015
2026 AleJohnMariTop 100 Greatest Music Albums59/10041
2026 TakaTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s85/1003
2026 paladisiac#1 albums per year since 196032/66 -
2026cicadelicTop 100 Music Albums of 19915/1005
2026 PurplepashYa joking? Should've been higher! All Time edition1/100 -
2026 TamthebamTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s59/1008
2026 RomanelliTop 100 Greatest Music Albums29/10072
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 3,246
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 36,353
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Nevermind ratings

Average Rating: 
87/100 (from 4,367 votes)
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 !		07/16/2026 06:36 kinginsomniac12  Ratings distribution  57599/100
 
90/100
 !		07/15/2026 02:34 JoshN125  Ratings distribution  3184/100
 
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 !		07/09/2026 11:46 Liedzeit  Ratings distribution  2,46374/100
 
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 !		07/07/2026 19:09 RobinHall18  Ratings distribution  3992/100
 
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 !		07/02/2026 10:25 marcoshb  Ratings distribution  6178/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 86.8/100, a mean average of 85.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.


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Nevermind comments

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85/100
From 04/24/2026 10:51 | #314125
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35/100
From 07/16/2025 07:44 | #310158
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95/100
From 07/14/2025 04:09 | #310092
The first few tracks are really impactful when played loud. I was also impressed by the album's depth: the whole second half is new to me, it's terrific all the way through and I want to hear it again.
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From 02/04/2025 23:36 | #307393
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From 01/28/2025 21:30 | #307295
Un album qui a changé les règles du jeu.
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From 01/09/2025 20:03 | #306875
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90/100
From 12/29/2024 03:33 | #306689
A key album in the development of modern alternative music, Nevermind takes the punk energy of Nirvana’s debut and produces the hell out of it. There are slower moments, but these mostly give way into frantic fretwork. Cobain’s throat-shredding vocals are as spine-tingling as ever as are the crunching guitars. Excellent!
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95/100
From 08/23/2023 15:15 | #298809
Just fantastic
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Rating:  
90/100
From 07/15/2023 22:26 | #298154
This is very solid grunge album, probably the best in the genre - it has well-written hits packed with anger and punk energy and also intimate acoustic ballads about dark subjects. However it is not as good as it is important, it brought alternative music to the mainstream and ultimately ended the 80s era of synths and glam metal.
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100/100
From 06/23/2023 19:19 | #297744
Yes, this is one of those albums that really is as good as everyone says it is.
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