Bad
by Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson bestography
Bad is ranked 3rd best out of 25 albums by Michael Jackson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Michael Jackson is Thriller which is ranked number 63 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 16,110.
(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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Bad 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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Bad rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | AbsurdCheesecake | Top 60 Music Albums of the 1980s | 34/60 | 9 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 95/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 25/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | shanelovesyou1111 | Top 73 Music Albums of 1987 | 8/73 | 5 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 33 Music Albums of 1987 | 7/33 | 4 |
| 2026 | Fritz | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 50/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 23 Music Albums of 1987 | 8/23 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 22 Music Albums of 1987 | 2/22 | 5 |
| 2026 | dukeboxkool | Best R&B Albums 1960-2015 | 4/55 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 615 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 4,265 | |||
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Bad ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago |  Purplepash | 4,988 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2026 02:18 | xhitmanx | 1,603 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2026 14:21 | Devilwoac | 1,467 | 97/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.
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Forum mentions
Purplepash 4 days ago in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
BestEverAlbums 09/02/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5423): By serpico BestEverAlbums 08/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5419): By MasterOfPuppetsBad comments
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Some days I enjoy this album way more than Thriller. I love how the choppy production of the synths and beats just cut through, it's MJ at his vocal peak, and I've grown to appreciate what I thought were filler songs like Speed Demon and Another Part of Me. The filler in Thriller (Baby Be Mine and The Girl is Mine) just are so cheesy and haven't aged well. At least the filler in Bad is still fun and fits the style of everything else more smoothly. Just Good Friends is the only dud on here, and it's disappointing that they got Stevie Wonder on it too but it doesn't help. I agree with lendiad; At this point we should just add Leave Me Alone to the tracklisting. It's been on every re-release for the past 25 years and was released as the final single for the Bad era originally. Do we always have to adhere to the original album release on this website? (Edited)
CaptainPain 03/12/2026 01:52 | #313520
I came to pay my respects to one of the greatest albums in the history of world music. (Edited)
HoldenM 02/02/2026 20:46 | #312951
A solid end to the Quincey/MJ collaboration. A steely collection of songs where Michael has never sounded tighter. Love the edge on this thing. (Edited)
Shortlisted for album of the year at the Grammys in 1988. The winner was The Joshua Tree by U2 (Edited)
Strangel 01/29/2025 10:44 | #307299
So bad. (Edited)
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