The Blueprint 3
by Jay-Z
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Jay-Z bestography
The Blueprint 3 is ranked 5th best out of 16 albums by Jay-Z on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jay-Z is The Blueprint which is ranked number 529 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,318.
(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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The Blueprint 3 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 05/16/2026 06:35 | Olli | 7,263 | 62/100 | |
| 05/12/2026 16:53 | Jakor | 5,374 | 70/100 | |
| 04/30/2026 14:28 | cicadelic | 12,817 | 73/100 | |
| 12/03/2025 12:32 |  Tamthebam | 23,089 | 69/100 | |
| 10/05/2025 07:58 | TonySayers61 | 24,563 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.9/100, a mean average of 65.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.3.
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Boltzmann 12/27/2019 10:48 | #245970
Another fine album by Jay-Z, just fine. He knows himself for sure, not everyone should use auto-tune, just people with ear for melody. And that's part of his success: knowing his own limits. The question is just are those borders marking a big enough territory.
junodog4 03/27/2017 17:27 | #188221
Last worthwhile album, but at this point, it sounds like the game has moved past him.
This record is a floorplan to mediocracy. What a piece of crap!
This album is a let down, definitely one of his worst albums. I do not recommend this to anyone for any occasion unless you have a serious fetish for underachieving albums. Best song: Empire State of Mind. I wouldn't bother with the rest of the album it's not worth the time.
leave it to Jay-z to make "Tha Carter III" look artistic and edgy, yikes this is bad
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