Jay-Z: Unplugged (live album)
by Jay-Z
Jay-Z bestography
Jay-Z: Unplugged is ranked 10th best out of 16 albums by Jay-Z on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jay-Z is The Blueprint which is ranked number 521 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,342.
(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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Jay-Z: Unplugged track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Jay-Z: Unplugged rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 90/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Jay-Z - Ranked | 12/20 | - |
| 2025 | jlsfourth | Top 100 Albums of the 21st Century | 87/100 | - |
| 2025 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 22 Music Albums of 2001 | 11/22 | 3 |
| 2025 | jlsfourth | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2025 | jlsfourth | Top 10 Hip Hop Albums | 9/10 | - |
| 2024 | glynspsa | Live | 12/99 | - |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 8/100 | 19 |
| 2023 | glynspsa | RAP albums | 19/100 | - |
| 2023 | LosWochos | Die 100 besten Live-Alben by Musikexpress.de (03/2021) | 20/98 | - |
| 2022 | jlsfourth | Top 10 Music Albums of 2001 | 5/10 | 3 |
| 2018 | glynspsa | Drum / Percussion Albums | 16/100 | - |
| 2018 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 1/100 | 5 |
| 2016 | mileslachlan | Top 30 Greatest Music Albums | 7/30 | 6 |
| 2015 | ReelBigToph | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 53/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 15 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 53 | |||
Jay-Z: Unplugged collection
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Jay-Z: Unplugged ratings
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av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12/21/2025 04:50 | Olli | 6,673 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/21/2024 13:17 | cicadelic | 11,456 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/29/2023 19:16 | jlsfourth | 1,198 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2023 15:53 | TroutMaskGreg | 1,661 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2023 22:43 | LosWochos | 46,642 | 75/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.0/100, a mean average of 67.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 23.5.
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Lachapelle 11/28/2015 01:42 | #153592
This is a great live album. Not all live albums come out too good. This one however is a very personal live show, with the audience being very small and so the sound quality is amazing.
The Roots are one of my favorite hip hop groups of all time and the band undoubtedly played a perfect performance, with all the instrumentals sounding even better than the originals. They even switch up the instrumentals for 'Takeover' (Jay Z's Infamous Diss Track) to classic Nas and Mobb Deep instrumentals while he's dissing them.
Another strange highlight is the included "Hidden Track" that plays after the last song. This one's not a live song (People Be Talkin') but it definitely bumps!
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