The Great Twenty-Eight
by Chuck Berry
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Chuck Berry bestography
The Great Twenty-Eight is ranked 5th best out of 46 albums by Chuck Berry on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Chuck Berry is Berry Is On Top which is ranked number 485 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,507.
(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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The Great Twenty-Eight track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
The Great Twenty-Eight rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | martintho | Top 55 Music Albums of 1982 | 17/55 | 4 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 40/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 56 Music Albums of 1982 | 5/56 | 5 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 28 Music Albums of 1982 | 4/28 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 98 Music Albums of 1982 | 56/98 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 39 Music Albums of 1982 | 31/39 | 1 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 55 Music Albums of 1982 | 20/55 | 3 |
| 2026 | jlsfourth | Top 80 Music Albums of the 1980s | 37/80 | 11 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | 56 Favorite Compilation Albums | 9/56 | - |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1801-1900 | 86/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 121 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 517 | |||
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The Great Twenty-Eight ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | AndyLish79 | 505 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 18:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,564 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/11/2026 16:13 | Slewkey | 279 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 4 days ago in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/25/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5415): By JR BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsThe Great Twenty-Eight comments
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planetneutral 11/04/2020 23:32 | #260197
There are so many great songs on here. But not 28 of them. Berry borrowed heavily from himself, which becomes really noticeable when you string all his hits together.
VictorVale 09/06/2020 21:59 | #257833
Pilar do rock!
This is ageless. It's good to get back to the roots of rock music. This music still has a great feel and is totally refreshing in its simplicity and authenticity.
This album rocks. Just does.
junodog4 01/29/2015 03:09 | #132874 | TOP COMMENT
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It is a compilation, so it's tough for me to include this as a best-ever-album. But Chuck Berry was in an age of singles, and no single alubm comes remotely close to the collection of tracks here. Hmm...
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