Wings Over America
by Wings
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Wings Over America is ranked 16th best out of 50 albums by Paul McCartney on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Paul McCartney is Band On The Run which is ranked number 266 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,999.
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Wings Over America 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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Wings Over America rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | triples, etc. etc. | 7/8 | - |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Favorite Live Albums | 49/60 | - |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Top 18 Music Albums of 1976 | 1/18 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1970s Pt 3 | 21/23 | - |
| 2026 | NowhereMan | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 10/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top albums of the '70's (201 - 300) | 16/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1976 | 40/100 | - |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 68 Music Albums of 1976 | 61/68 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 84 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 273 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/05/2026 11:29 | cicadelic | 14,346 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2026 12:17 | Chamita78 | 25 | 96/100 |
| ! | 06/23/2026 05:28 | MadhattanJack | 6,066 | 66/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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Wings Over America forum mentions
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With Frampton Comes Alive, one of the best live album you can find. Paul took some songs, like Venus and Mars/Rock Show, Maybe I'm Amazed, and gave them new life here. Long and Winding Road is so good on here. Actually all the songs he does from the Venus and Mars album, sound so much better on this album....Letting Go, Venus and Mars/ Rock Show, Magneto and Titanium Man, Medicine Jar, Spirits of Ancient Egypt, and even You Gave Me the Answer. The only 1 I prefer the studio version of is Listen to what the Man Said. Soily, Hi Hi Hi, Letting Go, Live and Let Die, all sound so good. Just wish he would have done Juniors Farm and left out Richard Cory or Call Me Back Again. (Edited)
Most live albums on this site have low ratings because it does not contain new material. Often a live album is nothing more than a greatest hits collection. However, this is not the case for this album. In my opinion most of the Wings songs are live much better than the recorded version in the studio. This is really a must have for all music collections!
An enjoyable live album from Paul McCartney's successful U.S. tour. It features a few Beatles classics, amongst wings and solo songs. The acoustic sit down is my favourite part of the show, featuring, bluebird, the fab four's, I've just seen a face, and Paul Simon's, Richard Cory. It's not essential, like most live albums, but it is a lot of fun.
Never really got into Wings but this is a pretty good live album. So nice covers of Beatles songs as well as solo McCartney.
Tamthebam TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/09/2014 11:59 | #126565 | TOP COMMENT
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This was originally a triple album now on 2 CD's. A really good live album a band at the height of their Powers/popularity, they sound like a well oiled band not just a backing band for Paul McCartney. As sometimes happens with live albums, some of these songs sound better live than they did on the original albums.
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