Earthling
by Eddie Vedder
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Eddie Vedder bestography
Earthling is ranked 2nd best out of 4 albums by Eddie Vedder on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Eddie Vedder is Into The Wild (Music For The Motion Picture) which is ranked number 1323 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,300.
(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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Earthling track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 71 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Earthling rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 36 Music Albums of 2022 | 24/36 | 2 |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2022 | 31/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 92 Music Albums of 2022 | 33/92 | 3 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 96/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2025 | henriknaess | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2025 | arnellarsen | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | paladisiac | top albums, #1201-1300* | 48/80 | - |
| 2025 | Rivera | Top 32 Music Albums of 2022 | 27/32 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 45 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 124 | |||
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Earthling ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/15/2026 01:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,056 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/20/2025 17:22 | PapaShiz86 | 11,765 | 79/100 |
| ! | 10/25/2024 19:51 | patmull | 578 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.2/100, a mean average of 66.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
Earthling forum mentions
pedro1976 06/03/2026 10:48 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 03/16/2023 08:35 in What album are you listening to right now?
BestEverAlbums 02/11/2022 13:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2022-02-07) (week 06, 2022)Earthling comments
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Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/12/2022 04:10 | #287305 | TOP COMMENT
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Despite the impressive role call of support artists here (Chad Smith, Elton John, Ringo Starr, Benmont Tench and Stevie Wonder) Edward Louise Severson The Third dishes up the quintessential mixed bag album with the good (“Try”, “Power of Right”, “The Haves”, “Mrs Mills”), the bad (“Brother the Cloud”, “On My Way”) and downright ugly (“Fallout Today”, “Picture” sorry Elton)
Trim off the 3 bad tracks for a neat 10 and its a nice package as it feels bloated in its current form
Woah, not what I was expecting. Seems like EV has been listening to a lot of Peter Gabriel, and 80s Robert Plant, and the Karate Kid Soundtrack. It's weird, but I kind of like its weirdness. It takes some balls to put out an album like this.
Some good songs: Invincible, Long Way, some embarassing like: Power of Right or the Elton John thing.
C'mon, you're Eddie Vedder, you can call whoever to play on your record, you had 20 years to prepare it, to chose a better production. I would like some more efford.
Yeah this one has a lot of energy, insane levels of production value and performances... despite a few misguided creative choices at points I dig it!!!
VictorVale 02/11/2022 23:18 | #281155
Vedder reencontra o rock! Vai de punk, baladas e hard rock!
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