The Miracle
by Queen

The Miracle by Queen
Year: 1989
Release date: 1989-05-22
Overall rank: 2,518th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 290 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (30th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (371st)
Award Best albums of all time (2,518th)

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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 11,485.

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The Miracle rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,518th | 1980s rank: 371st | 1989 rank: 30th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 29 minutes ago).

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Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 290 votes)
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80/100
From 01/02/2025 22:44 | #306777
The last 3 are the best ??
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From 02/22/2024 23:56 | #302155
Great album, terrifying album artwork
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80/100
One of the most positive Queen album
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From 11/18/2018 13:14 | #225126
I remember buying this when I still loved queen as a kid. I want it all single gave hope of something good. Alas, no. File next to hot space and flash that, unless you are a completest, you really don't need.
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65/100
From 06/07/2018 20:17 | #216294
Along with Flash and Hot Space 3 Queen albums I don't possess,'Breakthru', 'I Want It all' best here,I wouldn't miss the rest of the album.
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65/100
From 01/25/2017 00:07 | #184194
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From 08/23/2016 00:32 | #173272
I could live listening to Breaktrough all day, it's such a powerful rythmic song. The miracle song has great moments and I want it all is a great rock tune. Invisible man is worth the punchy bass&drums line -impossible not to follow it tapping the foot- and that's it. The rest is just no good. Party, Rain must fall and My baby does me are specially awful.
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Rating:  
65/100
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.
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90/100
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.
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75/100
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.
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