Down To Earth
by Rainbow

Down To Earth by Rainbow
Year: 1979
Release date: 1979-08-03
Overall rank: 6,944th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 86 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1979 (107th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,057th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,944th)

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Rainbow bestography

Down To Earth is ranked 5th best out of 17 albums by Rainbow on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Rainbow is Rising which is ranked number 658 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,602.

Rainbow album bestography « Higher ranked (6,828th)
On Stage
This album (6,944th)
Down To Earth
Lower ranked (9,442nd) »
Difficult To Cure

(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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Down To Earth rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,944th | 1970s rank: 1,057th | 1979 rank: 107th

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Down To Earth ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 86 votes)
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65/100
 
01/20/2026 19:04 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,41570/100
 
60/100
 
01/13/2026 19:54 iann97  Ratings distribution  2,04574/100
 
70/100
 
12/29/2025 15:00 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,99873/100
 
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11/04/2025 04:42 AAL2014  Ratings distribution  3,89875/100
 
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07/07/2025 07:17 Squonk007  Ratings distribution  74924/100

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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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80/100
From 11/28/2023 15:17 | #300182
Quite underrated here and in general. Solid album with some good bangers
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From 04/20/2023 15:02 | #296240
1st and this album are best of Rainbow career???
All this album is very good thing.
One of the best albums of 79’ with Pink Floyd, Joy Division, The Cure ??
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70/100
From 07/10/2020 15:08 | #255365
Pretty good! Rating (73.75)
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From 07/04/2016 21:03 | #170549
'Eyes of the World' the best track here, other than the hits the rest being fairly average.
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