Berry Is On Top
by Chuck Berry
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Chuck Berry bestography
Berry Is On Top is ranked as the best album by Chuck Berry.
(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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Berry Is On Top 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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Berry Is On Top rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 59 Music Albums of the 1950s | 16/59 | 15 |
| 2026 | MrOlan | Top 60 Music Albums of the 1950s | 11/60 | 17 |
| 2026 |  AwaitingAndrew | Top 59 Music Albums of the 1950s | 31/59 | 10 |
| 2026 | mikepen | Top 24 Music Albums of the 1950s | 12/24 | 11 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | 50s-70s | 38/69 | - |
| 2026 |  ERadio | 201-300 | 37/100 | - |
| 2026 | downandout | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 9/100 | 18 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 74 Music Albums of 1959 | 17/74 | 4 |
| 2026 | stanchoiaz | Top 20 Music Albums of the 1950s | 15/20 | 6 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 14/100 | 87 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 384 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,532 | |||
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Berry Is On Top ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/25/2026 16:25 | Siromynian | 1,708 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2026 18:53 | Chorongo | 56 | 91/100 |
| ! | 08/29/2026 23:22 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Berry Is On Top forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 18 hours ago in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 09/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5436): By Rivera BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsBerry Is On Top comments
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RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/23/2012 15:05 | #40744 | TOP COMMENT
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Great Album. My only beef with Chuck Berry is he often starts his songs off the same, but other than that, his guitar playing brought the guitar to the forefront more than anyone else. Almost no filler on this album. Key tracks- Carol, Maybellene, Johnny B. Goode, Roll Over Beethoven. I also like the irony in Blues for Hawaiians.
Droophus 01/09/2020 04:44 | #246608 | TOP COMMENT
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All great pre-Beatles artists are hamstrung on this website because they were way more focused on releasing singles. So this album, like all of the best Chuck Berry LPs are mostly just collections of previously released singles. It’s kind of a greatest hits album, but seeing how it was released in 1959 when Chuck was still in his prime and wasn’t packaged as such, I can give it a pass. Hard to argue with this collection not being the greatest, most consequential contribution to rock n roll music.
plenty of good songs! Johnny B. Goode is a highlight!
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/29/2015 03:10 | #132875 | TOP COMMENT
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Closest thing to a best-ever album from Chuck Berry. The comps are probably a better place to look, but this is dandy.
tgarritsen 12/08/2013 19:34 | #96846 | TOP COMMENT
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