For Once In My Life
by Stevie Wonder

For Once In My Life by Stevie Wonder
Year: 1968
Overall rank: 8,275th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 68 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1968 (111th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (608th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,275th)

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Stevie Wonder bestography

For Once In My Life is ranked 9th best out of 39 albums by Stevie Wonder on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Stevie Wonder is Songs In The Key Of Life which is ranked number 73 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,597.

Stevie Wonder album bestography « Higher ranked (6,889th)
In Square Circle
This album (8,275th)
For Once In My Life
Lower ranked (10,764th) »
My Cherie Amour

(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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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 8,275th | 1960s rank: 608th | 1968 rank: 111th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 68 votes)
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70/100
 
02/28/2026 22:07 DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
70/100
 
02/25/2026 02:39 CaptainPain  Ratings distribution  3,35761/100
 
85/100
 
11/17/2025 21:04 VictorVale  Ratings distribution  3,77581/100
 
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09/21/2025 00:42 duelek  Ratings distribution  1,77376/100
 
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12/20/2024 18:00 davidleewrong  Ratings distribution  2,33781/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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75/100
From 09/09/2024 20:43 | #305207
After many years of knowing, loving and practically hero-worshipping Stevie Wonder, it’s only been the last year or so I’ve gone back from the beginning of his discography and listened to all of the records and material I hadn’t previously listened to. This album being one of them.

Don’t be like me and sleep on this album for years and years haha.

Through compilations and hits collections, I’ve known and loved about a quarter of this album already, the opening title-track being one of the great pop/soul songs of the 60’s. But there are overlooked gems here like I’d Be A Fool Right Now and Ain’t No Lovin’ that showcase Stevie’s ever-growing writing and singing to accompany the handful of great singles that ultimately do end up front-loading the album a bit.
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80/100
From 02/20/2023 09:05 | #294243
Stevies song-making and singing abilities start to show in full bloom. Strong and solid his best 60's album definetely
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80/100
From 09/13/2019 06:31 | #242528
Stevie's best album from the 60's , the title track, Shoo Be Doo & I Don't Know Why being the stand out tracks. I'd Be A Fool.., You Met Your Match & I'm More Than Happy are also great tracks. The last 4 tracks however drag the album down to 80/100.
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85/100
From 11/04/2018 22:35 | #223847
Really good...especially loved the track ‘I Don’t Know Why’.
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