Black Gives Way To Blue
by Alice In Chains

Black Gives Way To Blue by Alice In Chains
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-09-22
Overall rank: 4,193rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 219 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2009 (65th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (716th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,193rd)

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Alice In Chains bestography

Black Gives Way To Blue is ranked 6th best out of 17 albums by Alice In Chains on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Alice In Chains is Dirt which is ranked number 206 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,422.

Alice In Chains album bestography « Higher ranked (2,038th)
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This album (4,193rd)
Black Gives Way To Blue
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Black Gives Way To Blue

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Black Gives Way To Blue rankings

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Overall rank: 4,193rd | 2000s rank: 716th | 2009 rank: 65th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 219 votes)
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75/100
 
02/27/2026 23:41 DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
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02/17/2026 01:25 bcole19  Ratings distribution  61989/100
 
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01/31/2026 09:26 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  2,57784/100
 
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12/28/2025 00:53 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,10633/100
 
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11/24/2025 16:23 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,42765/100

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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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70/100
From 06/22/2020 15:59 | #254146
Almost everysong sounds the same.
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90/100
From 03/30/2020 23:09 | #249315

I was surprised by the quality of this album! I didn't think they could do something to match Dirt and Facelift, but this album really kept the high quality! Greetings from a fan from Brazil!
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75/100
From 04/06/2015 10:56 | #138931
Decent enough album. It's no Facelift or Dirt but worth a listen.
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40/100
From 05/19/2013 18:42 | #76614
Agree that it's overproduced but it's really good even without Layne.Private Hell is in my top 10 AIC songs
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From 04/11/2013 23:48 | #72508
An OK album. Overproduced, yes. But none of the tunes really sucked. Or maybe they did but i didn't see it. I guess the downfall of this album is that many of the songs were one-trick, but the production blocked my lower ratings.
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60/100
From 05/18/2012 01:44 | #42618
Great album, AIC returned in fine form, even without Layne. I hope they put out many more albums if this is the kind of thing we can expect.
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From 10/21/2010 18:56 | #15852
Black Gives Way To Blue and When The Sun Rose Again were the highlights for me.
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