Greatest Hits
by The Cure
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The Cure bestography
Greatest Hits is ranked 23rd best out of 40 albums by The Cure on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Cure is Disintegration which is ranked number 27 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,439.
(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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Greatest Hits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Greatest Hits rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 27 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 75 Music Albums of the 2000s | 53/75 | 6 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 100 Band Compilations | 50/100 | - |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 47 Music Albums of 2001 | 44/47 | 0 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 100 Artists | 27/48 | - |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 2001 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2025 |  CharlieBarley | Favourite Albums By The Cure In Order | 21/26 | - |
| 2025 |  nitomano | Compilations | 14/98 | - |
| 2024 | musicawareness | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 15/40 | - |
| 2024 |  PAPPITUFO | Top 32 Music Albums of 2001 | 8/32 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 30 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 42 | |||
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Greatest Hits ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/22/2026 08:29 | kinginsomniac12 | 625 | 99/100 |
| ! | 09/24/2026 08:12 |  nextorgd | 1,242 | 84/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2026 02:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,612 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.1/100, a mean average of 78.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Greatest Hits forum mentions
Rhyner 08/01/2018 16:10 in What album are you listening to right now?Greatest Hits comments
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I quite liked the early albums from The Cure, but somehow lost interest in them along the way. Now I thought it could be interesting have a collection of the hits from their long career.
Though many of the hits from after "Seventeen Seconds" are quite nice, only few are more than just that.
For me the stand-outs on this collection are the early songs "Boys Don't Cry" and "A Forest" along with later hits such as "Friday I'm in Love" and "Cut Here", which reminds me a lot of Jarvis Cocker and Pulp.
The bonus CD of re-recordings perhaps does not add very much to the Cure history. The arrangements are very simple and not very varied. Still interesting to hear these newer versions, which reveal which songs are really good and which are less significant.
Though nice enough, this collection has not changed my impression that The Cure were best on their first couple of albums.
It's okay, but leans towards their more mainstream works too frequently. Completely ignores Faith and Pornography, which in my opinion are their best two albums (they are however, incredibly un-commercial).
Alright compilation. 'Standing on the Beach' is a better one in my opinion
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