Colour By Numbers
by Culture Club
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Culture Club bestography
Colour By Numbers is ranked as the best album by Culture Club.
(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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Colour By Numbers track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Colour By Numbers rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Virgin on the brilliant | 25/57 | - |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 41 Music Albums of 1983 | 21/41 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1983 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 21 Music Albums of 1983 | 16/21 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 90 Music Albums of 1983 | 64/90 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1980s | 52/100 | - |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 56 Music Albums of 1983 | 13/56 | 4 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 50 Music Albums of 1983 | 30/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1980s | 82/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 4 | 50/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum albums Pt 3 | 18/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 99 Music Albums of 1983 | 58/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Artists Pt 3 | 93/100 | - |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1983 | 42/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Gendjar | Top 72 Music Albums of 1983 | 23/72 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum artists Pt 3 | 28/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1983 | 6/77 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum Zone 12 Europe British Isles | 64/100 | - |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 56 Music Albums of 1983 | 30/56 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1983 | 10/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 127 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 265 | |||
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Colour By Numbers ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21/2026 15:44 | Leginlists | 3,389 | 83/100 | |
| 02/27/2026 17:04 | classicjoe | 413 | 78/100 | |
| 01/18/2026 17:01 | AledJames | 1,556 | 69/100 | |
| 11/12/2025 23:32 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 | |
| 11/05/2025 17:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,585 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.9/100, a mean average of 65.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.1.
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Jboy56 01/29/2022 14:30 | #280264
Criminally underrated. I love this album full of excellent pop tunes!
strong vocals, songwriting, upbeat. pop culture
teague 09/15/2020 18:56 | #258260
Really not very good.
No.1 for 5 weeks & contains 3 of the Top 50 biggest selling singles of 1983 incl the biggest seller of the year "Karma Chameleon". The others being the haunting melody "Victims" & the pure energy of "Church of the poison mind". There's also the No.4 hit "It's a miracle". "Stormkeeper", "That's the way" & "Black money" also standouts but there are no fillers on this album, making this a true classic of 80's pop. The 2003 re-issue CD contains the majestic orchestral instrumental of Victims, "Romance revisited".
junodog4 04/28/2017 03:38 | #189946
Who cares if 'guys dressed like that'?
One of the very fist albums I owned being only 11 years old then and a popular album at the time, two of the tracks being on the first 'Now That's What I Call Music' Album 'Karma Chameleon' and 'Victims'
I once owned this album
eclab 11/24/2014 04:38 | #127829
There are a few lyrical duds, but the music quite good throughout. Underrated on this site.
Its been 30 years, time to listen to the music and not the image. Boy George and Culture Club were ultimately a rather short lived phenomenon, but that 18 months or so that they ruled the airwaves was a strong one and this album represents them at the peak of their powers, before overexposure and drug addiction derailed this band into a Trivial Pursuit question. People forget this album was so big that only Michael Jackson was able to hold it off #1.
Robert Anton Wilson 09/24/2012 21:57 | #51101
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