Journals
by Justin Bieber
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Justin Bieber bestography
Journals is ranked 8th best out of 13 albums by Justin Bieber on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Justin Bieber is Justice which is ranked number 8600 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 145.
(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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Journals track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 46 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Journals rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stanchoiaz | Top 32 Music Albums of 2013 | 9/32 | 4 |
| 2019 | Unaguma | Top 96 Music Albums of the 2010s | 90/96 | 1 |
| 2019 |  Lowkey | Top 100 Music Albums of 2013 | 66/100 | 2 |
| 2014 | Vibe | 46 Best Albums of 2014 | 8/46 | - |
| 2014 | flash400 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 6/40 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 7 | |||
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Journals ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/08/2026 15:12 | Jakor | 5,510 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/01/2025 03:06 |  Maxence | 12,753 | 61/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2025 02:50 | culwin | 1,561 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2024 18:22 | Jerem201 | 650 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2023 10:31 | rafaelcalazans | 2,201 | 54/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 30.7/100, a mean average of 24.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 24.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 28.2.
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Yikes. This was tough. I slogged through this album on YouTube, and while not the worst I've ever heard by any means, it's not good. And as bad as the music might be, some of the videos are even worse. I had to avoid watching to focus just on the music. I will try not using hyperbole and I'm not going to give anything here a 1/10 or anything, but some of this is rough.
The first obvious problem to me is - Justin isn't that good of a singer. And that's not a deal-breaker! Lots of singers with good songs/music are not necessarily the best singers.
But making it even worse is the auto-tune everywhere. It's like having an overcooked piece of chicken and then dumping dollar-store ketchup on it to try and cover up the taste. Now you've just got burned chicken with cheap ketchup. It's even worse.
All that said, nobody could really make these songs much better. So let's talk about the songs themselves.
Fact is, the majority of them are almost mediocre even if a little annoying, but not outright TERRIBLE. The lyrics are mostly all shallow, repetitive, and simple hooks/scales or almost random notes. Lots of whining.
But a few tracks stand out from the rest.
"What's Hatnin" is absolutely loathsome.
"Backpack" is bizarrely goofy, seemingly about an alien he carries around in his backpack like ET.
"Hold Tight" is insipid junk that somehow required 6 writers.
Anyhow, why did I give this 6/10 if it's so bad? Well back to the chicken analogy, it isn't inedible or anything. But do I want to eat it? No. There's lots of better options. Listening to this gave me a headache. (Edited)
Medelsvensson 01/26/2018 08:35 | #206526
garbage (Edited)
Best Bieber work. More mature and his only non-comercial album! There is no coincidence. This is the real Justin Bieber and the real music he wants to do.. but the discography is the leader
Little music for little minds. The production is crap, the songs are mindless and he's an idiot. (Edited)
Lowkey 11/03/2015 15:06 | #152417
incredible piece of work, every track is great.
the production is incredible varied and Bieber sounds confident
all the users who rated this a 5/10 and have every classic rock album a 100/100 lmao gb2reddit (Edited)
I'd like a word with every single user who gave this album a 5/100.
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