Drowning By Numbers
by Michael Nyman
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Drowning By Numbers is ranked as the best album by Michael Nyman.
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Drowning By Numbers track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Drowning 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: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 87 Music Albums of 1988 | 71/87 | 1 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 81 Music Albums of 1988 | 45/81 | 2 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2024 | Steppenwolf666 | 1988 2nd chart | 8/63 | - |
| 2023 | Pretender | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 39/100 | 44 |
| 2023 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 53/100 | 2 |
| 2023 |  Graeme2 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 43/100 | 3 |
| 2023 | sssvnnn | contemporary classical crossover | 86/100 | - |
| 2022 | Pretender | Top 87 Music Albums of the 1980s | 8/87 | 18 |
| 2022 | Graeme2 | Original Sound Tracks | 95/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 22 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 94 | |||
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Drowning By Numbers ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/13/2026 14:23 | cicadelic | 13,808 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2025 11:40 | videoheadcleaner | 12,361 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/11/2023 23:20 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,715 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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Sometimes some music throws the blood in your veins into some new paths. To me, that shit happened listening to this
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