Nine Lives
by Aerosmith
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Aerosmith bestography
Nine Lives is ranked 8th best out of 35 albums by Aerosmith on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Aerosmith is Toys In The Attic which is ranked number 834 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,076.
(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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Nine Lives track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Nine Lives 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 | blueandthemoon | Top 50 Music Albums of 1997 | 30/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 93 Music Albums of 1997 | 34/93 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1990s Pt 3 | 61/100 | - |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 62 Music Albums of 1997 | 41/62 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1997 | 30/100 | - |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 19/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1990s Pt 3 | 35/100 | - |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 93 Music Albums of 1997 | 33/93 | 3 |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 94 Music Albums of 1997 | 10/94 | 5 |
| 2026 |  JR | Aerosmith | 11/14 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 60 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 180 | |||
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Nine Lives ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/10/2026 21:15 | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
| ! | 05/28/2026 16:33 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,586 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/22/2026 23:20 | 95rosem | 162 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.9/100, a mean average of 65.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.4.
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CharlieBarley 10/13/2021 20:46 in What album are you listening to right now?Nine Lives comments
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Eastwood 11/24/2014 19:55 | #127884 | TOP COMMENT
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Great album. Best 10 songs average is 92,8/100 and the album can get great 95/100. It's the third-best Aerosmith album for me. Best an full-scoring song is "Hole in my soul". Closely followed by "Falling in love" and "Full circle" both 95/100 and next "Nine lives", "Taste of india", "Pink" and "Fallen angels" all 90/100.
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telefunker 04/26/2010 02:22 | #11014 | TOP COMMENT
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gotta love the sweet taste of india
It is a very good album. Pretty underrated in comparison other 90s albums from Aerosmith.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/09/2012 16:40 | #39867 | TOP COMMENT
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A real step back for Aerosmith. Albums like this make people forget their great work before. The hits (India, Pink, Falling in Love) are the worst tracks on the album. The non-singles are actually OK, but with Nine Lives, Aerosmith had become bloated again - not on drugs, on MTV shit and their own egos.
end of the road for me as far as Aerosmith go
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