40 Greatest Hits
by Hank Williams
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Hank Williams bestography
40 Greatest Hits is ranked 4th best out of 21 albums by Hank Williams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Hank Williams is Moanin' The Blues which is ranked number 2137 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 779.
(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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40 Greatest Hits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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40 Greatest Hits 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 |  DommeDamian | Top 22 Music Albums of 1978 | 9/22 | 3 |
| 2026 | BlueNote | Best Country Albums | 3/50 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 23/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1978 | 19/100 | - |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 93/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1970s Pt 2 | 49/100 | - |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Greatest Country Albums of All Time | 1/32 | - |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Favorite long albums | 20/52 | - |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Top 78 Music Albums of the 1970s | 40/78 | 10 |
| 2025 | Joe4242 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 15/40 | 54 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 62 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 334 | |||
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40 Greatest Hits ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/13/2026 13:49 | DommeDamian | 7,844 | 48/100 |
| ! | 02/13/2026 14:25 | cicadelic | 14,224 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/30/2025 23:41 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,351 | 70/100 |
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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 78.1/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.0.
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40 Greatest Hits forum mentions
Repo 10/11/2026 23:19 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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40 Greatest Hits comments
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planetneutral 11/22/2020 19:58 | #261245 | TOP COMMENT
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Hard to ignore how many iconic songs he wrote.
poppmusic TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/30/2015 20:56 | #142713 | TOP COMMENT
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This is missing a lot of fantastic early stuff. His early stuff (as found on disc one of "The Complete Hank Williams") is ESSENTIAL listening. Really laid down the foundation for American country music there, and he wrote very emotional songs of redemption on the plains. He wasn't just a sad, lonely dude!
swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/08/2014 18:39 | #111191 | TOP COMMENT
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Bucket had a hole in it before I listened to this album. Hank is the godfather of country music. Without him, none of the modern greats would exist. It's super twangy and full of lost love, but it reminds me of a much simpler time.
The first time my dad put in the double CD I thought he was nuts....but he opened my world to Hank. Each song became a classic and I finally got what my dad got about hank - and what my mom could not understand.
There's only so much self pity I can take, Cash will always be the king of country. Very good songwriting for the time but largely irrelevant and frankly boring now.
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