Beatles For Sale
by The Beatles
The Beatles bestography
Beatles For Sale is ranked 11th best out of 71 albums by The Beatles on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Beatles is Abbey Road which is ranked number 3 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 56,589.
(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 tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 4 days ago |  nikosp | 5 | 70/100 | |
| 01/24/2026 16:31 | Bluedog | 165 | 73/100 | |
| 01/22/2026 18:22 | colabunga | 591 | 80/100 | |
| 01/18/2026 07:57 | robertoveltri | 822 | 79/100 | |
| 01/15/2026 00:15 | This_is_handsome | 769 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
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Nothing outstanding about this album but it's a pleasant listen.
It's quite interesting to think that they went from this album to their best album, Revolver, in only two years. That's impressive
Too many covers, and no real standout tracks for me. Not one of their best.
SomethingSpecial 07/01/2025 12:25 | #309846
Hands down the most overlooked Beatles record, perhaps due to the amount of cover songs featured on the album. Nevertheless, I have always found it to be a warm and inviting LP, brimming with personality and heart, due to the authenticity of the covers and the originals, most of which are essential classics, such as the incredible Eight Days a Week, one of my favourite openers in No Reply, What You're Doing, and the very underrated country-inspired I Don't Want to Spoil the Party.
A life-changing experience when I first heard it (the quality and tone of the original songs). A big, big favorite of mine.
HoldenM 04/16/2023 21:03 | #296136
The first album by The Beatles that is not great but is merely very good. Like with many (maybe most?) Beatles albums, it can't quite surpass the heights of its first song--although, "Eight Days a Week" is its equal. It's still got lots to like, though.
At the end of a long US tour the Beatles went straight into the studio to record this their 4th album. With insufficient material of their own they relied heavily on doing quite a few covers and some not very well. The album is therefore a bit hit and miss. It starts strongly but apart from the first four tracks and Eight Days a Week the rest of the album is fairly average - Honey Don't is poor by Beatles standards. Probably my least favourite Beatles album.
This album grew on me quite a lot from my first review, it is still not great and definitely their weakest, but there are more good songs here than only Eight Days A Week
Best Songs: Eight Days A Week, No Reply, I'll Follow The Sun.
The worst. Eight days a week is great, No Reply and I'm a Loser are decent, otherwise it's just bad. A big step back from A hard days night, and it contains the worst "normal" Beatles track in "Mr. Moonlight" (Not considering Rev9 and WHP)
I love The Beatles, but I hate this album, the only one good song here is Eight Days A Week, apart from this one this is soulless pop that is not entertaining for me at all.
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