Lady Sings The Blues
by Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday bestography
Lady Sings The Blues is ranked 2nd best out of 80 albums by Billie Holiday on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Billie Holiday is Lady In Satin which is ranked number 535 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,231.
(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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Lady Sings The Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Lady Sings The Blues rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 48 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  AwaitingAndrew | Top 59 Music Albums of the 1950s | 40/59 | 7 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 40 Music Albums of 1956 | 3/40 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 70 Music Albums of 1956 | 6/70 | 5 |
| 2026 | gregthealien | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 75/100 | 25 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 33 Music Albums of 1956 | 3/33 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 56 Music Albums of 1956 | 6/56 | 5 |
| 2026 | AwaitingAndrew | Top 10 Music Albums of 1956 | 8/10 | 2 |
| 2026 |  bertrandu | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 38/100 | 13 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 28 Music Albums of 1956 | 12/28 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 200 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,453 | |||
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Lady Sings The Blues ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/02/2026 16:38 | CrazyDiamond84 | 110 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/29/2026 21:17 |  VictorVale | 3,900 | 81/100 |
| ! | 02/17/2026 17:54 | AngelBecerra | 1,185 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.8/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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Lady Sings The Blues forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/13/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5372): By gregthealien BestEverAlbums 07/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5371): By seb7 BestEverAlbums 06/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5359): By PurpleHazelLady Sings The Blues comments
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In the midst of these love and loss-of-love songs, Holiday drops her greatest piece, Strange Fruit.
seb7 01/29/2021 18:51 | #265257 | TOP COMMENT
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Just beautiful. An amazing album with three fucking perfect songs as the title track, god bless the child, and strange fruit.
alelsupreme 01/27/2016 02:42 | #157875 | TOP COMMENT
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A solid album, but pretty much almost every track here was done better first time round by Billie.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/22/2016 01:34 | #157304 | TOP COMMENT
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I absolutely love her voice. I feel though that she did another set of recordings I heard on best of with a little more sass on a best of compilation I own.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/29/2012 17:48 | #49574 | TOP COMMENT
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Can't listen to it without being affected emotionally. Impossible.
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