Broken China
by Richard Wright
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Broken China is ranked as the best album by Richard Wright.
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Broken China track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Broken China rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 79 Music Albums of 1996 | 15/79 | 4 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 74/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Unaguma | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 15/99 | 17 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 97 Music Albums of 1996 | 28/97 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 90/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Pink Floyd & The Dark side of the Moon | 32/54 | - |
| 2024 | glynspsa | Pink Floyd & Solo | 35/49 | - |
| 2024 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2023 |  Martinborras | Top 29 Music Albums of the 1990s | 6/29 | 17 |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 18/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 22 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 102 | |||
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Broken China ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/03/2026 19:41 | duelek | 2,219 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2025 17:48 | TonySayers61 | 25,939 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2023 20:25 |  phantom1305 | 2,813 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 70.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
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AndrewJFisher 07/14/2021 00:41 | #271597
This album is quite hard to find online. Luckily I found in on CD at a local music shop. I liked Rick's "Wearing the Inside Out" on Division Bell, so had hopes for this album. Ultimately a bit boring and Rick's singing isn't that good or at least it doesn't seem to suit this kind of music. In Floyd I don't think Rick was necessarily an inferior singer to David or Roger even though Rick himself has, on camera, criticized his own voice and said that he meant to get someone else to do the Broken China vocals. He sounded good to me on "Wearing the Inside Out". I might give Broken China a couple more tries though.
Martinborras 09/05/2014 02:02 | #121233
For me, is an incredible disc, and is the best album of a member of Pink Floyd by his own. I dont know why this album is so underrated in here, it creates great atmospheres and the melodies are just excellent. It has the essence of the Floyd in many ways.
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