The Miracle
by Queen
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Queen bestography
The Miracle is ranked 12th best out of 52 albums by Queen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Queen is A Night At The Opera which is ranked number 108 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,389.
(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 Miracle track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Miracle rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | wizardalien | Queen Studio Albums Ranked | 5/8 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1980s Pt 2 | 20/100 | - |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 81 Music Albums of the 1980s | 46/81 | 9 |
| 2026 |  serpico | Top 23 Music Albums of 1989 | 11/23 | 3 |
| 2026 | mrfloosak | Top 73 Music Albums of 1989 | 66/73 | 1 |
| 2026 | Garyf1972 | Queen Albums Rated | 12/14 | - |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 66/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 52 Music Albums of 1989 | 37/52 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 69 Music Albums of 1989 | 27/69 | 3 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 23/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 149 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 638 | |||
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The Miracle ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/06/2026 20:15 | wizardalien | 901 | 48/100 |
| ! | 07/25/2026 16:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,689 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2026 19:03 | serpico | 909 | 85/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.2/100, a mean average of 66.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.1.
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Unfairly judged as Queen's worst album quite often, when in actuality, this is probably their best album since 1980s the Game. Full of wonderful tunes, and only a few corny sidetrackers. The Miracle, I Want it All, Scandal, Hang on in There and Was it all Worth it are all primo Queen songs, and the only songs that could've been done away with are My Baby Does Me and Rain Must Fall. (Edited)
JohnCanning1976 05/27/2014 09:23 | #113007 | TOP COMMENT
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This will always be one of my favourite albums for personal reasons (it was the first album I ever bought back in 1989). History has judged it harshly, but when you have The Miracle, I Want It All and Was It All Worth It, it can't be all that bad. I think the two openers are among Queen's most "fun" tracks and even My Baby Does Me has a laid back vibe that is really rather good. (Edited)
This album contains blatant great tracks like The Miracle and I Want It All, but also has the hidden gem (also my favourite song of all time for personal reasons) Was It All Worth it. Could do without the banal My Baby Does Me, and The Invisible man isn't really appealing to me. All in all, it's a good, however inconsistent album. (Edited)
This was queen's first album in three years after a kind of magic. In truth, it has only one really good track in I want it all. The rest is a cross between good and terrible. Good stuff is was it all worth it, breakthru and scandal. The invisible man and the title track are ok, but rain must fall and my baby does me are awful. That it took three years to make with the talent that band has it's extremely disappointing. They were better than this, and I just feel that was a problem with queen in the eighties, they didn't quite have the hunger or the edge they had in the previous decade. Still, the crazy thing is that, the miracle, really is fun if you don't take it to seriously. One more thing, I wonder if the album was originally intended as a concept. Party, is the band getting together, and off course, ending with, was it all worth it. Throw scandal in there to and you might have a rock'n'roll story.
A weird album in that the first three tracks are by far the weakest, I thought I was in for a rough ride but the rest of the album is quality - one of the more consistent strings of 7 songs I've heard on a Queen album. Obviously I Want It All is the highlight, as well as Breakthru, but the other tracks are very enjoyable and varied. One of their stronger albums overall for me. (Edited)
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