Back To The Night
by Joan Armatrading
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Joan Armatrading bestography
Back To The Night is ranked 5th best out of 29 albums by Joan Armatrading on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Joan Armatrading is Joan Armatrading which is ranked number 3212 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 475.
(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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Back To The Night track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Back To The Night rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 84 Music Albums of 1975 | 22/84 | 4 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 48/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  MW19704U | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 88/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 1/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 11/100 | 5 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 65/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | Moondance | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 91/100 | 9 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of 1975 (101 - 200) | 22/44 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 21 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 81 | |||
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Back To The Night ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/09/2026 10:26 | mostlymor | 7,068 | 79/100 |
| ! | 02/25/2026 16:24 | Vinyl | 548 | 80/100 |
| ! | 03/27/2025 17:22 |  Sandrof1969 | 2,730 | 68/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.3.
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Back To The Night forum mentions
Liedzeit 08/28/2026 16:57 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Liedzeit 04/29/2023 09:25 in What album are you listening to right now?Back To The Night comments
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Tamthebam TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/22/2015 11:09 | #148264
The 2nd proper album from Ms. Armatrading is an improvement on Whatevers for Us. This is mostly an acoustic album with some piano driven tracks the stand out tracks being Dryland, Cool Blue, Travelled So Far, Come When You Need Me & So Good. Overall a good album but better albums were to follow.
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