Virtual XI
by Iron Maiden

Virtual XI by Iron Maiden
Year: 1998
Release date: 1998-03-23
Overall rank: 15,235th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 120 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (246th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (2,417th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,235th)

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Iron Maiden bestography

Virtual XI is ranked 18th best out of 38 albums by Iron Maiden on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Iron Maiden is The Number Of The Beast which is ranked number 267 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,123.

Iron Maiden album bestography « Higher ranked (15,149th)
Rock In Rio
This album (15,235th)
Virtual XI
Lower ranked (16,447th) »
The X Factor

(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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Virtual XI rankings

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Overall rank: 15,235th | 1990s rank: 2,417th | 1998 rank: 246th

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Virtual XI ratings

Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 120 votes)
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08/26/2025 01:11 TodFitz  Ratings distribution  27,35363/100
 
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08/16/2025 21:59 Ilor  Ratings distribution  25177/100
 
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01/09/2025 21:17 RainW  Ratings distribution  17376/100
 
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11/30/2024 04:58 slatsheit  Ratings distribution  2,04181/100
 
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09/19/2024 17:59 AAL2014  Ratings distribution  3,65675/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 58.1/100, a mean average of 56.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 56.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.3.

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75/100
From 10/15/2023 09:47 | #299495
This album did grow on me after numerous playings. Though I will admit that at first play it was "meh!" and I still do think that many (most all?!) of the tracks could have benefitted with a minute or two sliced off them, as seem to drag out a bit. I suspect if Martin Birch could have still have been involved as a Producer it would a much more successful outcome.
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From 10/14/2020 14:02 | #259293
Esperava menos, dá até pra curtir!!
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From 06/23/2020 16:04 | #254293
I personally love this album. Educated Fool, Angel and the Gambler, Futureal, When Two Worlds Collide and Como Estais Amigos are excellent, yet criminally underrated tracks. I'm not a fan of Clansman however. Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger is pretty good, but not quite as good as the rest of the album (minus Clansman).
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50/100
From 12/12/2019 20:34 | #245636
Lightning Strikes Twice & When Two Worlds Collide are the highlights if there is any silver lining on a less than memorable album. Some good riffs though.
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40/100
From 09/02/2019 15:57 | #242100
The worst album of Iron Maiden
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From 05/17/2017 16:33 | #190952
The X Factor was bad enough, but this is absolutely dreadful! Without Bruce and Adrian the group loses allot of what makes them unique and good. Not a single good track. The group's worst album.
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20/100
From 03/26/2016 02:29 | #162586
Nothing about this album is good.
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