Foreigner
by Cat Stevens
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Cat Stevens bestography
Foreigner is ranked 8th best out of 31 albums by Yusuf Islam on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Yusuf Islam is Tea For The Tillerman which is ranked number 563 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,020.
(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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Foreigner track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Foreigner rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 86 Music Albums of 1973 | 35/86 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 88 Music Albums of 1973 | 48/88 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 83/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  identifer | Top 5 Music Albums of 1973 | 5/5 | 1 |
| 2026 | ExTeaSea | F2LF: Cat Stevens/Yusuf | 4/9 | - |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 48 Music Albums of 1973 | 37/48 | 1 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1973 | 44/50 | 1 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 53 Music Albums of 1973 | 52/53 | 0 |
| 2026 |  nitomano | Top 47 Music Albums of 1973 | 33/47 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 42 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 54 | |||
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Foreigner ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/14/2026 09:51 | classicjoe | 507 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/09/2026 18:51 | identifer | 1,008 | 82/100 |
| ! | 03/27/2026 01:44 | ExTeaSea | 5,252 | 83/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.5/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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dihansse 10/16/2016 19:53 in My discoveries per yearForeigner comments
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Overlooked and underrated album by Cat Stevens. None of his most catchy songs or hits here, but still very strong songwriting and empassioned performances. The title suite is his take on the side-long piece not uncommon for the time, this being ambitious without feeling pretentious or self-indulgent.
bobbyb5 02/20/2017 12:33 | #185996
Every few years I try to raise my opinion of this, feeling bad that I can't. Cause I love his albums surrounding this one. But the songs just aren't very good. Only The Hurt has any of the qualities of his better songwriting. But his next album had tons of quality songs to make up for it. It sounds alright tho.
It doesn't stand up to Teaser and Tea but I think maybe his third best. No major hits on this but everything on it is good
Jboy56 11/13/2023 18:44 | #299964
This is way too low in rankings, pls support this album by adding it to your charts . A definite classic. (Edited)
EP but still a solid effort.
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