Communiqué
by Dire Straits

Overall rank: 2,013th | 1970s rank: 361st | 1979 rank: 40th
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings).(Last updated: 1 hour ago)

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Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2026	fabm0	Decade 1970s Pt 2	60/100	-
2026	Tamthebam	Top 100 Music Albums of 1979	59/100	2
2026	fabm0	Platinum year 1979	14/75	-
2026	Skerns	Top 90 Music Albums of 1979	50/90	2
2026	fabm0	Platinum Zone 12 Europe British Isles 2	97/100	-
2026	martintho	Top 88 Music Albums of 1979	28/88	3
2026	fabm0	List 1979	17/100	-
2026	dihansse	Top 68 Music Albums of 1979	3/68	5
2026	zags7000	Top 100 Music Albums of 1979	69/100	2
2026	Rm12398	Top 35 Music Albums of 1979	21/35	2
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		196
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		835

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Communiqué ratings

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75/100 (from 315 votes)

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85/100 !	08/30/2026 18:53	djrodo	1,020	81/100
90/100 !	08/25/2026 07:18	robertoveltri	904	79/100
85/100 !	07/30/2026 13:46	RockyRaccoon	7,217	84/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.

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BestEverAlbums 07/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5367): By borninhockeytown

“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by by (1974) 3. (1989) 4. by (2015) 5. by (1973) 6. by (2005) 8. by (2003) 9. by (1986) 10. by (1966) 11. by (2005) 12. by (2016) 13. (1996) 14. by by (1968) 16. (1977) 17. by (1987) 18. by (2024) 19. by by (1996) 21. by (1993) 23. by…”

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Squonk007 01/10/2025 20:48 | #306897