Blackout
by Britney Spears

Blackout by Britney Spears
Year: 2007
Release date: 2007-10-25
Overall rank: 3,018th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 177 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2007 (53rd)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (504th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,018th)

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Overall rank: 3,018th | 2000s rank: 504th | 2007 rank: 53rd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
61/100 (from 177 votes)
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05/19/2026 12:57 Perring  Ratings distribution  35179/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 61.1/100, a mean average of 60.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 60.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 28.6.


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90/100
From 02/13/2023 20:03 | #293985
Britney spears is probably my biggest guilty pleasure
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70/100
From 02/11/2021 11:49 | #266160
Generally a worthy combination of production and attitude, but I was tiring of the Auto-Tune by the second half (even when cleverly used) and the tracks became less interesting as well.
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100/100
From 05/18/2020 12:50 | #251661
I adore this album with all my heart. It's absolutely perfect.
Secretly the greatest work of art ever made (unironically). But we will never admit it.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 12/22/2018 20:14 | #227680
Mesmo hoje seria moderno. Música pop de alta qualidade
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I love this record, britney at her pinnacle here. This was pretty forward-thinking and really set the tone for the electropop takeover in the mainstream starting from 2009. A lot of great tracks, by turns sexy and innovative thanks to both britney and danja. the album starts perfectly with the sultry, maddening lead single "gimme more" and ends perfectly on a very personal note. i completely agree with antaiospiano abt the rockists on this site giving this great record scathing reviews , it's honestly pathetic.
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Rating:  
80/100
Best album in its genre. The genre being the synthpop revival of the ‘00s, which was without doubt the most important genre of that decade. The Madonna generation had matured and started making their own music. There was tough competition: Kylie Minogue, Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, Madonna herself. But Britney definitely took the crown with this one.

If the genre was rock however (or anything related to it), people on this site would cum all over it even if the album was half as good. But since it is pop, we see these salty old heads, edgy declinists and indie purists with anger boners pop up who can’t possibly understand how something that is mainstream can also be good at the same time.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 12/15/2016 21:16 | #180278
Ok album. Best 10 songs average is 73,3/100 and the album can get ok 75/100. No remarkable songs, four ones ok and rest below-average.
Genre: Dance-Pop, Electropop
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Rating:  
80/100
From 09/29/2016 20:04 | #176037
Basically a giant electro sexy-come-hither dance of an album, it reveals Britney's canny choice of producers perhaps more so than her actual personality (and her torpodeing public trainwreck-persona at the time) and came up with the sleeky, sinewy, bare-bones sexiness that came to dominate EDM at the time. A trendsetter for better or worse, but it's an underrated album from the forever hot-mess that always was Britney's career.
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I'm not sure why people are giving Blackout extremely low ratings. This is most definitely Britney's best album, and although that might not say much, it was surprisingly risky. The first use of dubstep ever by a commercial artist is present on this album (bordering avant-garde pop), along with a load of futuristic production, giving it a sleek, sexy, edgy style. It's a lot of fun for dance/electro pop lovers.
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5/100
From 06/14/2014 15:47 | #114442
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