The Best Of 1990-2000
by U2

The Best Of 1990-2000 by U2
(Compilation album)
Year: 2002
Overall rank: 13,611th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 107 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (258th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,437th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,611th)

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U2 bestography

The Best Of 1990-2000 is ranked 18th best out of 38 albums by U2 on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by U2 is The Joshua Tree which is ranked number 51 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,113.

U2 album bestography « Higher ranked (12,464th)
Wide Awake In America
This album (13,611th)
The Best Of 1990-2000
Lower ranked (17,972nd) »
Days Of Ash EP

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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The Best Of 1990-2000 track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Best Of 1990-2000 rankings

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Overall rank: 13,611th | 2000s rank: 2,437th | 2002 rank: 258th

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79/100 (from 107 votes)
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12/10/2025 12:05 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  3,59382/100
 
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11/18/2025 14:26 DrTchock97  Ratings distribution  73376/100
 
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08/24/2025 06:33 nextorgd  Ratings distribution  1,19784/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 80.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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From 02/19/2020 23:02 | #248023
Excellent ok.
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From 07/13/2016 16:20 | #171227
Excellent compilation featuring hits from the albums, stand alone singles, new songs, and new mixes of older songs. Electrical storm, is an underrated U2 song, miss Sarajevo, is excellent, and, hold me,thrill me,kiss me,kill me, is wonderful silly nonsense. A fine collection.
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From 12/07/2014 18:31 | #128924
Beautiful Day is still one of the best things this band have done. It may be one of best songs ever! You have to listen to it as it most incredible!
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From 03/21/2013 06:10 | #69283
Like the tracks not on albums here: Electrical Storm (original cut is better), Hands that Built America - love the singing on that, along with whatever instrument the Edge is playing. And who else could do a song with Pavarotti?
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