Four
by One Direction

Four by One Direction
Year: 2014
Release date: 2014-11-17
Overall rank: 17,395th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
47/100 (from 32 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2014 (395th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (3,692nd)
Award Best albums of all time (17,395th)

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One Direction bestography

Four is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by One Direction on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by One Direction is Midnight Memories which is ranked number 9232 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 131.

One Direction album bestography « Higher ranked (17,228th)
Made In The A.M.
This album (17,395th)
Four
Lower ranked (20,055th) »
Take Me Home

(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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Four rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 17,395th | 2010s rank: 3,692nd | 2014 rank: 395th

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Four ratings

Average Rating: 
47/100 (from 32 votes)
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08/19/2025 11:00 Bjartmar03  Ratings distribution  65659/100
 
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07/02/2024 19:32 Lefty21  Ratings distribution  51875/100
 
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12/08/2023 16:54 fabm0  Ratings distribution  6,85959/100
 
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12/02/2023 10:38 rafaelcalazans  Ratings distribution  2,20054/100
 
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11/25/2023 09:00 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,05573/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 47.1/100, a mean average of 39.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 39.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 30.0.

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90/100
From 05/06/2023 19:52 | #296696
I feel like this is One Direction’s mist underrated album, it has a more laidback vibe, and to be honest, it has a whole tired vibe as well, I think it doesn’t have as much gut wrenching sadness as other albums, but instead yearning in the sad songs.
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From 02/08/2015 16:04 | #134363
While it is the best album they've done so far, it's more a case of 'best of a bad bunch' rather than 'their greatest work'. An unoriginal sound combined with the usual doggerel lyrics mean that 'Four' isn't anything special.
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