X&Y (studio album) by Coldplay

X&Y by Coldplay
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-06-01
Overall rank: 496th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 1,167 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2005 (8th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 2000s (80th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (496th)
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Coldplay bestography

X&Y is ranked 4th best out of 20 albums by Coldplay on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Coldplay is A Rush Of Blood To The Head which is ranked number 100 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 13,504.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rating: 82 (202 votes)Comments: 3
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Rating: 86 (376 votes)Comments: 9
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Rating: 84 (270 votes)Comments: 7
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Rating: 83 (259 votes)Comments: 7
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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 1,167 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.0.

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100/100
From 12/20/2023 02:07
I don’t know why people hating on this album. This and AROBTTH is their best work
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90/100
From 10/13/2022 14:57
Thia album is great. So hard to choose between X&Y and AROBTTH. Both are so good. So this album has a lot of synths in it which is why I think its great. The songwriting is great too. Good melodies throughout and its very melodic. Can't understand why some people are saying its overrated because its in the top 500. I would put this as their best Coldplay album probably. The sounds on this project are really universally acclaimed. I mean so is the 2002 album but I just think this one will age better with time.
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100/100
From 10/13/2022 14:18
Unreal album - whilst the first 2 are brilliant, this one feels more like a complete album with the most consistent narrative throughout. Coldplay at their very best! Wish they played White Shadows more live.
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75/100
From 08/26/2022 21:35
Probably my favorite Coldplay album. "Talk" is so great.
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75/100
From 02/19/2022 03:51
In my opinion, not as good as the earlier ones
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45/100
From 02/11/2022 21:08
The singles are great (Talk, Hardest Part, Fix You and Speed Of Sound) but the rest of the album is a bit meh for me, especially when compared to their first two albums.
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60/100
From 09/12/2021 09:28
Coldplay have 4 albums inside the BEA top 500 and this is one of them

Best track: “The Hardest Part”
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Rating:  
65/100
From 12/24/2020 14:18
At songs like "Square One", they go through musical routes that deserved to be further explored, but they don't. "What if" and "X & Y" were the 2 other interesting tries, but the album overall leaves a lot to be desired, even more if you take into account its length.
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95/100
From 10/13/2020 04:54
One of the best Coldplay albums ever made, possibly *the* best. Not a single bad song and certainly no filler, the deepcuts are just as good as the hits, which is really saying something. The nostalgia/Chris Martin vocals along with "Talk" and "Speed of Sound" makes this my album of the year for '05

Best song(s): "What If" "White Shadows" "Fix You" "Talk" "Speed of Sound" "A Message"
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80/100
From 07/28/2020 13:14
Some really high moments and some very low moments. Not a great follow to a near perfect album, however I know that the pressure was there. Rating (80.38)
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