Release The Stars
by Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright bestography
Release The Stars is ranked 4th best out of 15 albums by Rufus Wainwright on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rufus Wainwright is Want One which is ranked number 3453 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 435.
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Release The Stars track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Release The Stars rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2007 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Music Australia Guide Best Albums 2007 | 37/50 | - |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1901-2000 | 31/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Junkmedia Best Albums 2007 | 35/50 | - |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 71 Music Albums of 2007 | 43/71 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2007 | 53/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Efe Eme Lo que queda de 2007. Discos internacionales | 19/25 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 88 Music Albums of 2007 | 32/88 | 3 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top 60r albums (60), #0401-0500* | 42/79 | - |
| 2025 |  johnner | Top 10 Music Albums of 2007 | 9/10 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 55 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 173 | |||
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Release The Stars ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/08/2026 13:02 | Tamthebam | 23,383 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 03:59 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,056 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/06/2026 15:49 |  EyeKanFly | 8,985 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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Release The Stars forum mentions
Romanelli 11/14/2021 23:49 in The Romanelli Music Diary: The Greatest Hits paladisiac 09/19/2016 20:39 in What album are you listening to right now?Release The Stars comments
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Rufus wainwright's fifth album was a slight disappointment after the genius of the, want, LP's. Still, it is Wainwright, so all is not lost. There are still superb songs, the best being, going to a town, between my legs, and the stunning, slideshow. Tiergarten, is nice, nobody's off the hook, is excellent, and the title track is superb. Weaker moments though are the throwaway, rules and regulations, the slight, sansoucci, and the boring, leaving for paris. It was always going to be difficult for Wainwright to keep that level of quality up, and indeed, about two thirds of this album is as good as anything he released before, it's just the other third let's it down. He's human after all.
Sandrof1969 02/22/2018 19:10 | #209248
A qualche canzone valida se ne alternano, secondo me, altre un po' autoindulgenti. Semplicemente, forse, rispetto a come sarà "Out of the game", qua i pezzi sono meno a fuoco a livello di scrittura. I capolavori sono altra cosa, ma i dischi brutti pure.
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