The Who By Numbers
by The Who
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The Who By Numbers is ranked 8th 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 40 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,179.
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The Who By Numbers track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Who By Numbers 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 | Untitled | Top 26 Music Albums of 1975 | 22/26 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 68/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 60 Music Albums of 1975 | 26/60 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1975 | 30/60 | - |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 9/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Top 30 Music Albums of 1975 | 15/30 | 3 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 38 Music Albums of 1975 | 30/38 | 1 |
| 2026 | asimpkins | Top 14 Music Albums of 1975 | 11/14 | 1 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 10/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 50 Music Albums of 1975 | 13/50 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 197 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 883 | |||
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The Who By Numbers ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | Siromynian | 1,726 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2026 17:43 | michelefarina | 70 | 86/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2026 18:27 |  NowhereMan | 1,494 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 10% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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I know I'm in the minority on this, but I think this is The Who's best album next to Quadrophenia. Highly underrated. Other commenters are correct - it does feel like a Townshend solo album, but Roger's vocals make it much more than just that. (Edited)
The Who by numbers, is essentially a Pete Townshend solo album in all but name. This is Townshend at his most confessional and self loathing, although Roger Daltrey wraps his tonsils around them with an enthusiastic sincerity, even on some of the more less 'manly' lyrics shall we say. It's a good record with some excellent songs, squeeze box, was the big hit from the album, a jokey country number. Elsewhere there's the opener, slip kid, the excellent, how many friends, and, the self pitying, however much I booze. Best song on the album though is the beautiful, blue,red and grey, a lovely song, one of Townshend's most gorgeous melodies. The playing is great, but as I said earlier, it really does feel like a solo album rather than a band, still, it's a good LP from a band who should have probably called it a day after their last record, quadrophenia.
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/28/2016 16:24 | #177651 | TOP COMMENT
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I never understood those who love to bash this album. It is chock full o' great cuts and Roger really puts his heart and soul into delivering them. (Edited)
Every Who fan should have this somewhere on their top 100. There ain't a bad track on the album and it has some great hits.
poppmusic TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/08/2015 20:26 | #131087 | TOP COMMENT
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What happened to the Who to make this travesty? After the greatest streak of albums in the history of music they made a boring, placid, and unadventurous work. Almost as bad as Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Hate to say this about my favorite band, but seriously, not worth anyone's time.
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