Iron Maiden 
The best album credited to Iron Maiden is The Number Of The Beast which is ranked number 269 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 6,051.
Iron Maiden is ranked number 82 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 23,882.
Iron Maiden official website: http://www.ironmaiden.com
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- Steve Harris
- Paul Di'Anno
- Bruce Dickinson
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Iron Maiden best albums
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 08/19/2026 10:08 |  Purplepash | 2,738 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2026 02:15 | bonnequestion | 414 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2026 19:31 | stareaterogni0n | 54 | 76/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 4% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 19.8.
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of all the Heavy Metal bands, 'Iron Maiden' are the best I've heard, I first heard them on a compilation album called 'Heavy', the opening track, 'Number of the Beast', I've been hooked ever since. (Edited)
Maiden have a large discography of shit hot legendary albums. But they have also had their slump periods which has produced some average productions. As a whole though, they are one of the forebearers and one of, it not, the greatest band in the history of NWOBHM (Edited)
Fell in love with them when I was younger for their incredible 80's output (Beast through Seventh Son). Fell back in love with them recently when I started listening to their "reunion" albums (Brave New World through Senjutsu). Amazing consistency for a band that's been around for so long.
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Brandon8 01/21/2022 04:01 | #279772
I prefer Paul Di’Anno over Bruce Dickinson as a singer but have to admit they made their best albums Number of the Beast & Powerslave with Bruce although I have the first 2 albums right after.
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