Duran Duran
by Duran Duran

Album
Duran Duran by Duran Duran
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-06-15
Overall rank: 2,532nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 213 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (44th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (372nd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,532nd)

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Duran Duran bestography

Duran Duran is ranked 2nd best out of 24 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 557 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,067.

Duran Duran album bestography « Higher ranked (557th)
Rio This album (2,532nd)
Duran Duran Lower ranked (4,778th) »
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Duran Duran rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,532nd | 1980s rank: 372nd | 1981 rank: 44th  Overall chart history
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Duran Duran ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 213 votes)
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 !		10/11/2026 14:00 Pluto11  Ratings distribution  12,30172/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.


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Duran Duran forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 10/20/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5471): By beatlematt
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From 10/05/2012 13:58 | #51771 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My rating reflects the 1983 reissue including "is there something i should know?" (as track #5, pushing "to the shore" to the bottom). This was a cool debut from the mtv-stylish 80s hit machine. "Other" top tracks include "girls on film" and "planet earth". (Edited)
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From 03/27/2014 16:46 | #107787 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
i have never understood what it is to be so great about duran duran. ok, in 1981 they were stylish and maybe sexy - but their songs (except exceptions) appear simple and fleeting to me.
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55/100
From 10/17/2014 21:19 | #124676 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Take the hits away and there aint much left to shout about best track here 'Planet Earth'
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From 09/14/2019 07:47 | #242561 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Great new romantic album with some hidden gems like 'Night Boat' with its Thomas Dolbyesque very electric build up. 'Girls on Film', 'Careless Memories'and 'Planet Earth' are the standouts. There is more 'rock' than new romantic here really. Difficult to compare to 'Rio' as it is quite a different approach with a harder edge so I like both in equal measure for different reasons.
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80/100
From 10/18/2017 12:03 | #199659 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.


The songs are incredible.....

However the focus on the "new romantic" sound lets it down

you can hear what the songs/album could have sounded like had it been produced differently on the live album Arena - strong and powerful rock rather than robotic/electronica

This would have been a classic 80's album like Rio had the production differed
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