Donna Summer 
The best album credited to Donna Summer is Bad Girls which is ranked number 2,612 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 598.
Donna Summer is ranked number 1,007 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 1,554.
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| ! | 05/05/2025 22:31 | mostlymor | 4,299 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2023 17:16 | Stevo796 | 980 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2023 20:57 | Johnnyo | 3,095 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/12/2023 17:51 | LosWochos | 7,596 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2023 04:21 |  Tamthebam | 867 | 73/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 13% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.7.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Virtually every musical or cultural innovation that Madonna gets unearned credit for is something that Donna Summer was ALREADY doing several years earlier. Summer was famously the 'Queen of Disco', but she was so much more as well. It's hard to think of a single Western music genre that LaDonna Gaines (1948 – 2012) didn't experiment with at one time or another. She was restlessly creative, always wanting to expand her sound and try new things while, of course, making sure it had a good beat and you could dance to it.
Fischman 01/08/2019 02:32 | #229291
Bug voice and enough quality material to make her worth a listen.
One of the most underrated artists of all time. Because of her connection to Disco, Donna was dismissed by many "serious" music fans, but her voice marks her out as one of the greats. Her background in musical theatre meant she often put down her vocals in one take and this almost live feel comes across on many of her classic hits. The notoriously difficult to sing Jimmy Webb classic "Macarthur Park" is but just one example of this. Donna was also a songwriter and wrote or co-wrote much of her material. On her belated entry into the rock'n'roll hall of fame their tribute read "She could sing anything, anywhere, with anyone , at anytime". How right they were. A musical based on her life is in the works. Let's hope this cements her place in musical history.
Fantastic voice here!
Tamthebam 07/21/2013 11:54 | #82064
The "Queen of Disco" is now no longer with us but she was so much more than a disco artist. She had a truly powerful voice and she could sing!(unlike so many other "Disco Singers"). Her early stuff is a bit dated now but her albums Bad Girls, Live & More and Another Time & Place are still worth listening to.
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