Around The World In A Day
by Prince And The Revolution
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Around The World In A Day is ranked 6th best out of 67 albums by Prince on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Prince is Purple Rain which is ranked number 72 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,237.
(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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Around The World In A Day track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Around The World In A Day rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 37/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1985 | 22/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 26/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 1985 by Ultimate Record Collection | 7/41 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 13 Music Albums of 1985 | 10/13 | 2 |
| 2026 | TastyandTemptin | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 10/100 | 85 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 18/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 48 Music Albums of 1985 | 26/48 | 2 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 60 Music Albums of 1985 | 1/60 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 282 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,455 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/03/2026 13:36 | Siromynian | 1,773 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2026 01:47 |  Brandon8 | 1,054 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/10/2026 00:04 | Devilwoac | 1,529 | 97/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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Around The World In A Day forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5428): By ExTeaSea BestEverAlbums 07/21/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5380): By Purplepash
pedro1976 04/22/2026 10:19 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Around The World In A Day comments
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Not his best album, but perhaps his most ambitious and strange. It's definitely a grower and will alienate fans of Purple Rain and other hits, aside from the baroque pop classic "Raspberry Beret", which everyone loves as much as the next Prince fan. This one is tied with Lovesexy and The Black album as his weirdest, but also most affecting work, I would say. It does have my favorite Prince song: "Temptation", which I consider to be one of the greatest vocal performances ever, even if it degenerates into the usual Prince cheese in the last few minutes. Despite all the talking, the jazz music going on behind it is fascinating. It's certainly worth giving a chance even if you don't like every single song.
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This is a record that grows on you, and once it does.. wow. This is where you can see the true genius of Prince. Here he is in his prime, howling, screaming, and hitting falsetto in the same 5 second span. Sex personified on a few tracks.
It's not his best work, but after a couple listens this went from 3.5 to 4 stars for me. Very enjoyable.
Psychedelic music at its best. Prince shows that he can make any kind of music as his own. Prince and the Revolution had three albums. There were three masterpieces. With "Around the world in one day" the next level was reached. Certainly no cheaper successor of "Purple Rain" but a development at the highest level.
This was Prince's best album when it came out in my opinion. I feel this is when he started to do what he really wanted. It is super weird, which is good.
I'm not a massive Prince fan but I do like a lot of his songs, but generally not whole albums. However this is one I do like, bought on cassette back in the day. This is my kind of Prince rather than the R&B stuff and I enjoy this more than Purple Rain, it doesn't mean it's better, just my musical taste (or not)!!!!
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