Hey Jude
by The Beatles

Album
Hey Jude by The Beatles
(Compilation album)
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-02-26
Overall rank: 4,763rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 144 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (85th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (766th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,763rd)

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The Beatles bestography

Hey Jude is ranked 20th best out of 71 albums by The Beatles on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Beatles is Abbey Road which is ranked number 3 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 53,485.

The Beatles album bestography « Higher ranked (4,260th)
1 This album (4,763rd)
Hey Jude Lower ranked (6,008th) »
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Hey Jude rankings

Hey Jude rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,763rd | 1970s rank: 766th | 1970 rank: 85th  Overall chart history
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80/100 (from 144 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 78.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.2.


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From Mdemauri 06/24/2014 19:20 in Albums that changed your life the most?
“I would have to say there are about five albums that "changed" my life. Not really sure what that means here, but to me it means they made me appreciate and start a life long love affair with music. My dad had a few albums that he listened to that did nothing for me like, The New Christy Minstrels…”
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From 02/12/2016 20:49 | #159477 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Including a number of tracks that can't be found on studio albums this is cleverly pitched towards beatles completionists This was released years before the red and blue double lp sets where most of those loose ends would resurface
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From 10/21/2016 21:40 | #177287 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The main reason why i bought this record,was because i never bought singles.Who could deny that Hey Jude,Revolution,Lady Madonna,are good song,s
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From 07/25/2021 07:47 | #271924 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Worth owning if only cover! This is a great collection of precious singles.
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From 04/18/2014 07:34 | #109518 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
not an album...good tracks of course but just a non sense compilation
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From 10/13/2019 12:34 | #243692
Conjunto de b-sides melhor que muitos outros clássicos do rock ou qualquer outro gênero.
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