Hits
by Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell bestography
Hits is ranked 24th best out of 36 albums by Joni Mitchell on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Joni Mitchell is Blue which is ranked number 71 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,315.
(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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Hits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Hits rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 95 Music Albums of 1996 | 43/95 | 3 |
| 2025 |  seb7 | Top 21 Music Albums of 1996 | 20/21 | 0 |
| 2024 |  CharlieBarley | 701-800 Favourite Songs | 44/100 | - |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 82 Music Albums of 1996 | 62/82 | 1 |
| 2022 | Johnnyo | Most listened to albums by female artists in 2021 | 77/98 | - |
| 2022 | Johnnyo | Most listened to greatest hits / compilation albums of 2021 | 71/73 | - |
| 2019 | glynspsa | Compilations or Best Of Best Ofs | 32/100 | - |
| 2019 |  Taka | Top 6 Music Albums of 1996 | 5/6 | 2 |
| 2018 | rkm | Perfectly Good Greatest Hits Albums (Chronological) | 34/61 | - |
| 2017 | rkm | Greatest Hits Albums For My Kids | 9/35 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 10 | |||
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Hits ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/15/2025 16:20 | machiaj | 805 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/10/2024 22:41 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,736 | 74/100 |
| ! | 02/09/2024 08:34 |  Norman Bates | 10,168 | 75/100 |
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Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 82.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.
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Hits forum mentions
bobbyb5 09/21/2017 11:45 in A "Greatest Hits" Albums Collection For Your KidsHits comments
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Agree with mostlymor for sure, but want to add that starting with Urge For Going is a genius move. (Edited)
What a weird compilation. All the music is essentially good, but after track 12 it jumps ahead decades, and is stylistically and technically jarring (the then state of the art production overwhelms the purity and simplicity of the songs completely). Then goes back to the beginning of her career for one song. It never made any sense to me. And it's sister album 'Misses' doesn't make much more sense either. As I remember Joni had no input on this album, and publicly disowned it? Joni has never been well served to date by retrospectives, maybe the box set in November will do her justice... (Having said that the music is uniformly excellent!)
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