Hold The Girl
by Rina Sawayama
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Rina Sawayama bestography
Hold The Girl is ranked 2nd best out of 3 albums by Rina Sawayama on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rina Sawayama is Sawayama which is ranked number 2046 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 820.
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Hold The Girl track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Hold The Girl rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 16 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | DJStuart79 | Top 40 Music Albums of 2022 | 16/40 | 3 |
| 2026 |  EyeKanFly | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Davy | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | 2020s, #101-200* | 17/96 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Musicserver.cz Čtyřicet nejlepších zahraničních desek roku | 35/40 | - |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 32/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | stanchoiaz | Top 32 Music Albums of 2022 | 8/32 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 50 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 126 | |||
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Hold The Girl ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/25/2026 00:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,261 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 12:52 | DJStuart79 | 5,983 | 59/100 |
| ! | 10/26/2024 17:09 | patmull | 578 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.3/100, a mean average of 68.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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Although not quite possessing the bite of ‘SAWAYAMA’, ‘Hold The Girl’ still proves itself to be a solid album of well written pop tunes, interesting genre shifts and expressive lyricism.
“Hold the girl” is very uneven. The first six tracks of the album are not very good. Sawayama’s vocals are overproduced, making key moments sound cheap. This is most apparent in the choruses, which just feel like plastic being thrown at you. Starting at “Your Age”, the record begins to find its strengths. The instrumentals become more electronic and pair better with the song structure. The lyrical focus on isolation and bigotry becomes more intimate. “Send My Love to John” is touching from the perspective of a mother learning to accept her son and apologizing for her mistakes. Hopefully, this refinement will continue on future albums.
TBC...
Album Rating:
1.Minor Feelings
2.Hold The Girl
3.This Hell
4.Catch Me In The Air
5.Forgiveness
6.Holy (Til You Let Me Go)
7.Your Age
8.Imagining
9.Frankenstein
10.Hurricanes
11.Send My Love To John
12.Phantom
13.To Be Alive
My favourites:
Frankenstein, to be alive, this hell (Edited)
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