If You Wait
by London Grammar
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London Grammar bestography
If You Wait is ranked as the best album by London Grammar.
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If You Wait track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
If You Wait rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 19 Music Albums of 2013 | 7/19 | 3 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 59/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | FNAC Les 10 albums d'annnée 2013 | 10/10 | - |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 54/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | byuzak | Top 42 Music Albums of 2013 | 10/42 | 4 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 94 Music Albums of 2013 | 41/94 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 2013 | 42/43 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 95 Music Albums of 2013 | 76/95 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 101 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 307 | |||
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If You Wait ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 07/15/2026 21:50 | cicadelic | 14,144 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/26/2026 07:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,180 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2025 22:58 | Proto | 4,339 | 33/100 |
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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If You Wait forum mentions
pa 09/19/2014 09:19 in Chart of the day (#1067): By BorejkoIf You Wait comments
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Mophos 11/16/2013 18:08 | #92930 | TOP COMMENT
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Okay, you do not need to innovate to make good music but this really just sounds like a mix between Purity Ring, Florence and the Machine and The xx. It's okay but I can't help but thinking other people have done the same think much better.
I don't like The xx so much, but I really like this London Grammar album. And I live it well.
This is an incredible album. Having just bought this on vinyl and having thoroughly washed all the static off and swapped the damaging card sleeves for polyline sleeves I set about listening. I then had to get up and change the rpm to 45 as it doesn't tell you that anywhere... Ok, with all the moaning aside and some might say, why buy vinyl to go through all this pain? The answer, it is absolutely worth it, particularly with a beautiful album like this!
Gooz 01/07/2014 18:41 | #100148 | TOP COMMENT
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@Mophos really said everything that matters about it. Anyways I can't ignore it's a good listening (good voice, arrangements, rhythm) and that's my rating's aim... a more subjective way.
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/02/2019 20:05 | #237035 | TOP COMMENT
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The first two things you think when you hear this is Florence and the Machine and XX. The third is that this is much better than the aforementioned.
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