Zooropa
by U2
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Zooropa is ranked 7th best out of 38 albums by U2 on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by U2 is The Joshua Tree which is ranked number 51 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,945.
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Zooropa track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Zooropa rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | BurndenAce | Top 75 Music Albums of the 1990s | 34/75 | 11 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 70/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 93 Music Albums of 1993 | 59/93 | 2 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Greatest Irish Albums | 21/23 | - |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 29 Music Albums of 1993 | 13/29 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1993 | 20/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1993 | 43/50 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 9/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | FanGrunge22 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 31/40 | 24 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 88/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 305 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,573 | |||
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Zooropa ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/31/2026 21:09 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/29/2026 21:03 | mash | 1,493 | 89/100 |
| ! | 05/24/2026 21:29 | evo | 281 | 70/100 |
Rating metrics:
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.6/100, a mean average of 69.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.5.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 06/28/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5357): By TerryTezza BestEverAlbums 12/01/2025 17:03 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 11/01/2025 16:03 in Monthly overall chart movementsZooropa comments
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Zooropa was first U2 album I ever listened to front to back all the way through and it’s the album that got me into U2.
Great underrated album that should be at least rated in their Top 5 best overall albums and it shouldn’t be rated below All That You Can’t Leave Behind. (Edited)
U2 at their most eclectic and futuristic. Sure, they may have spent the later stretch of their career chasing trends and would-be pop hits (Songs of Innocence comes to mind) but pop in this underrated gem of an album from 1993 and remember that for a while there, U2 were truly cutting edge. (Edited)
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Its a good album, their trying a different sound here and to some extent it works. I like all the songs, but their is no great songs apart from Stay the fifth track. (Edited)
I still have the original tape! It plays great and sounds superb through my recently acquired Denon tape deck, Rega amp and B & W speakers, a damn site better than it ever sounded in my tinny car stereo some years ago. It is like listening to a new album through decent audio kit and has re-awakened me to the fact that it was a reasonable album. I really like 'Zooropa' and 'Lemon', 'Babyface' is a bit weak, musically and lyrically. 'Numb' would quite happily sit on a Radiohead album so must have sounded way ahead of its time in 1993. Bit of a mixed bag really. (Edited)
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