Who's Better, Who's Best
by The Who

Who's Better, Who's Best by The Who
(Compilation album)
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 43,188th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 49 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (519th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (5,156th)
Award Best albums of all time (43,188th)

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The Who bestography

Who's Better, Who's Best is ranked 23rd best out of 51 albums by The Who on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Who is Who's Next which is ranked number 41 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,772.

The Who album bestography « Higher ranked (27,224th)
The Who
This album (43,188th)
Who's Better, Who's Best
Lower ranked (45,282nd) »
Who's Last

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 43,188th | 1980s rank: 5,156th | 1988 rank: 519th

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Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 49 votes)
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03/28/2026 01:36 BrianBoehm  Ratings distribution  8494/100
 
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06/11/2025 14:52 fabm0  Ratings distribution  6,86159/100
 
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03/18/2023 06:46 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,79163/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 81.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.

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From 03/30/2013 23:03 | #70692
There aren't enough of the real hits.
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