Fragile
by Francis Cabrel
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Francis Cabrel bestography
Fragile is ranked 9th best out of 19 albums by Francis Cabrel on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Francis Cabrel is Samedi Soir Sur La Terre which is ranked number 9526 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 128.
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Fragile track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Fragile rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1980 | 79/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 11 Europe West | 94/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum Zone 11 Europe West | 65/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1980 | 57/74 | - |
| 2024 | Johnnyo | French - My favourite French language albums | 57/87 | - |
| 2023 | Lalulilelo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 67/100 | 7 |
| 2017 | Johnnyo | Citizen Of The World? | 97/100 | - |
| 2015 |  bojolpif71 | Top 44 Music Albums of 1980 | 16/44 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 10 | |||
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Fragile ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/15/2026 14:34 | fabm0 | 7,009 | 58/100 |
| ! | 05/04/2024 13:52 | TonySayers61 | 26,093 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/18/2023 17:56 | MickLord | 3,967 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.3/100, a mean average of 62.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 62.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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Fragile = "weak" in French. It's a bit the final impression of this album which opens the very irregular 1980's years of Cabrel, between very good songs ("L'encre de tes yeux"), dispensable bluesy hits (like this "Dame de Haute Savoie", caricatured at that time by french humorsts) and other boring songs. The poetic magic of the first two albums has been already vanished. It was not until "Sarbacane" in 1989 that Francis Cabrel had really returned to the forefront of the French music scene.
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