Madvillainy
by Madvillain
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Madvillainy is ranked as the best album by Madvillain.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Madvillainy rankings summary
Overall rank: 88th | 2000s rank: 8th | 2004 rank: 2nd Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 70/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 90 Music Albums of 2004 | 81/90 | 1 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 26 Music Albums of 2004 | 4/26 | 4 |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Favorite Hip-Hop/Rap records | 28/78 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 10/100 | 91 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Lost at Sea Best Albums 2004 | 3/20 | - |
| 2026 | jinglebellis | Top 21 Greatest Music Albums | 7/21 | 67 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 9/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | JeffN999 | Top 100 Rap Albums | 75/100 | - |
| 2026 | rlang36 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 7/100 | 92 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 1,089 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 13,132 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 hours ago |  AvalancheGrips | 785 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2026 19:51 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/28/2026 02:33 | Melway94 | 118 | 83/100 |
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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 85.6/100, a mean average of 84.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.
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thejoj96 04/09/2012 21:13 | #39884 | TOP COMMENT
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was looking through the "Rap" section of FYE and was looking for something new. I asked the sales associate if he could recommend me something and he said, "Yeah check out Madvillain, they're underground rap". I never heard of "underground rap" before so I was hesitant but I bought it anyway. What a horrible album!! This isn't rap!! Where are the phat beats, lyrics about girls, money and killing, computerized vocals and MTV music videos? Needless to say, I'm never listening to this again! Stick to 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Akon and Kanye West instead.
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BigPoppa93 06/06/2014 12:12 | #113895 | TOP COMMENT
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BigPoppa93 06/06/2014 12:12 | #113895 | TOP COMMENT
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Easily one of the best albums I've listened to. If you have difficulty getting into it like I did the first time, take a break from it and come back later, like I did. It ended up being one of my greatest decisions.
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PsychologistHD 12/29/2014 22:19 | #130398 | TOP COMMENT
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PsychologistHD 12/29/2014 22:19 | #130398 | TOP COMMENT
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It's like A Clockwork Orange. It's dastardly sinister while also being humorously whimsical. (Edited)
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Sometype 07/26/2015 15:18 | #146461 | TOP COMMENT
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Sometype 07/26/2015 15:18 | #146461 | TOP COMMENT
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The amount of different ideas and aspects that get explored on this record is phenomenal. Not just one of my favourite ever hip-hip records but one of my favourite records of all time. It goes from smooth, classic sounding hip-hop to new, modern and disjointed sounding (which is extremely good); sampling is brilliant, the superhero/old detective theme throughout compliments the great instrumentals and lyrics. What i particularly like about this album is that it doesn't take itself too seriously, some of the sampling is comedic as well as some of the skits but then at the same time you have some very serious down to earth messages being said here which is also fantastic. If i had to pick one flaw with this record would be that some of the songs are far too short which perhaps prevents it from being 100/100. But this can be completely forgiven due to its freshness, experimentation and all round enjoyableness. Modern classic.
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19loveless91 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/06/2011 21:54 | #22790 | TOP COMMENT
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I'm guessing this isn't on more charts because most people still haven't heard it.. Or maybe they were pissed because of how short the songs are (it kinda bothered me).. Still, it's a great album (Edited)
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