Somewhere In Time
by Iron Maiden
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Iron Maiden bestography
Somewhere In Time is ranked 6th best out of 38 albums by Iron Maiden on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Iron Maiden is The Number Of The Beast which is ranked number 269 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,047.
(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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Somewhere In Time track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Somewhere In Time 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 | Pavloss | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 54 Music Albums of 1986 | 27/54 | 3 |
| 2026 | LosWochos | Top 97 Music Albums of 1986 | 4/97 | 5 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 38 Music Albums of 1986 | 12/38 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1986 | 25/77 | - |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 10 Music Albums of 1986 | 1/10 | 5 |
| 2026 | SethGunde | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 4/100 | 93 |
| 2026 |  Xxnu99etxX | Top 41 Music Albums of 1986 | 38/41 | 0 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1980s Pt 3 | 60/100 | - |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 41/100 | 57 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 246 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,500 | |||
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Somewhere In Time ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/27/2026 01:27 | xhitmanx | 1,573 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 10:39 | Pienk | 740 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 18:09 | abbolton | 77 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.8/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/29/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5419): By MasterOfPuppets BestEverAlbums 08/02/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5392): By leniad BestEverAlbums 07/02/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5361): By deadhouseSomewhere In Time comments
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doombringer 07/18/2025 10:29 | #310195
The Vinyl-Version had the best artwork of any Maiden-Album ! You could look at it (Front and Back) for hours to get all the allusions to songs and former albums of the band . Amazing ! (Edited)
Jboy56 10/03/2024 14:08 | #305514
Long songs and great writing and fantastic quitars!.¨Will see them in 2025... (Edited)
One of the best Maiden albums. I love the futuristic mood and sound in many of the songs. My favourites are "Wasted Years", "Caught Somewhere in Time" and "Deja Vu". Maybe only "Heaven can Wait" seems like a filler. (Edited)
Not as great as predecessors, but still solid Iron Maiden album, I really like the opening track, Wasted Years and Stranger In A Strange Land, my major complain here are quite dumb lyrics especially on two last tracks.
IlMala 01/23/2022 21:52 | #279949
Unfortunately starts to be forgotten this album; in deed is my favourite very slightly less than Powerslave and Piece of Mind, and even am not sure... Definitely prefer this album rather that The Number of the Beast, deserves to be re valued.
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