Let It Be
by The Beatles

Let It Be by The Beatles
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-05-08
Overall rank: 213th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 2,174 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1970 (11th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1970s (51st)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (213th)

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Let It Be is ranked 7th best out of 71 albums by The Beatles on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Beatles is Abbey Road which is ranked number 3 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 56,176.

The Beatles album bestography « Higher ranked (80th)
Magical Mystery Tour
This album (213th)
Let It Be
Lower ranked (225th) »
A Hard Day's Night

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Let It Be track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 213th | 1970s rank: 51st | 1970 rank: 11th

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Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 2,174 votes)
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3 days ago Christian889  Ratings distribution  4393/100
 
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03/10/2026 07:42 Bilou  Ratings distribution  24100/100
 
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03/07/2026 13:25 BoxFL  Ratings distribution  2,72651/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.5/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.

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85/100
From 09/13/2025 15:06 | #310910
A classic album.

This has some great tracks on it. Across The Universe, Let It Me, the arrangement of Maggie Mae is great. I Me Mine and For You Blue are very good tracks and then you have The Long And Winding Road (One of my favourite Beatles songs) and Get Back.

Not particularly familiar with the film but the album stands on it's own.
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90/100
From 07/22/2023 23:19 | #298279
Good album, but some songs could be excluded.
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95/100
From 06/08/2023 16:44 | #297470
For their final outing it feels like they went out with their best songwriting. Not their most experimental, or groundbreaking or cohesive album, but it feels like it has learned from everything they did previously and puts those lessons into a perfect package.
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Rating:  
70/100
From 04/17/2023 23:20 | #296172
Not a bad album. Not a disaster. Not anyone's most flattering work. It's a bummer note for The Beatles to end their studio career on, even if it's an unintentional ending all the same. The songwriting is there, if not quite as invigorated as the rest of this period, but Phil Spector's production is inoffensive at best and garish at worst.
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75/100
From 08/06/2022 17:55 | #288182
Best Songs: Get Back, Let It Be, Across The Universe, and Two of Us.
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70/100
From 04/21/2022 23:06 | #284474
A very inconsistent record by the Beatles with some of the songs being absolutely incredible and others just being pretty weak or boring. The songs that are on the better end of the spectrum are Across The Universe, Let It Be, The Long And Winding Road and Get Back. Pretty much every other track is filler and is nowhere near the standards of their previous releases. Songs like Dig It and Maggie Mae are completely useless in my opinion and I know they are short but they serve no real purpose on here. You can see the cracks starting to form in the music as well and this record, unlike some of their others, isn't better for it. Overall, an up and down release from a group whose cohesiveness was really fading by this point and so a pretty weak album by their standards was created.
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85/100
From 02/04/2022 22:09 | #280759
Apesar de afetado é o começo do adeus!
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From 01/29/2022 12:51 | #280262
Title track is one the best songs ever written, and my favourite Beatles track. Long and Winding Road and Across the Universe are also brilliant. The rest of the album is nothing special, although I've Got A Feeling and Get Back are nice.
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From 01/15/2022 21:09 | #279434
Not the greatest Beatles album but there are a lot of highlights and only a few duds in the tracklist
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95/100
From 12/29/2021 05:37 | #278154
if the beatles didnt broke up after abbey road and came back to check this album, we can replace songs here with tunes like,
my sweet lord,
wah-wah,
isnt it a pity,
maybe im amazed,
god,
mother,
working class hero,
isolation,
love,
what is life,
all things must pass
art of dying
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