Sabotage
by Black Sabbath
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Black Sabbath bestography
Sabotage is ranked 7th best out of 49 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,027.
(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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Sabotage track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Sabotage rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 59 Music Albums of 1975 | 37/59 | 2 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 38/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | MrOlan | Top 20 Music Albums of 1975 | 18/20 | 1 |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 58/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 25 Music Albums of 1975 | 12/25 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Jasonconfused | Top 91 Greatest Music Albums | 13/91 | 87 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 66 Music Albums of 1975 | 32/66 | 3 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 15 Music Albums of 1975 | 1/15 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 87 Music Albums of 1975 | 4/87 | 5 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 76 Music Albums of the 1970s | 68/76 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 306 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,652 | |||
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Sabotage ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 09/05/2026 14:59 |  hoyquarlow | 541 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/28/2026 21:30 |  JR | 1,122 | 81/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2026 16:54 | wizardalien | 894 | 48/100 |
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Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 07/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5364): By steve397Sabotage comments
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Their weakest album so far, it started off well with Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe but those are the only two track s i would go out of my way to listen to again.
Their last essential album of their classic era. (Edited)
VictorVale 01/23/2023 23:28 | #293207
Brincando com os tempos e com a dinâmica das músicas o Sabbath se torna mais complexos. Mas os sons mais pesados brilham mais.
I feel like this is really special record in Sabbath catalogue, none of the others have guitars playing as fast as on "Hole in The Sky" and "Megalomania" is great epic, but after it album becomes much worse. But highlights are so good it deserves high score, pretty underrated album. (Edited)
Sabotage has some phenomenal highlights such as Megalomania which is a 9 minute epic and a song that is impossible not to love. However, some songs do not remain at this standard and so the album doesn't remain consistent throughout. This means that whilst this album is amongst their greatest, it isn't right at the top for them.
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