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The best album credited to Kanye West is My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy which is ranked number 33 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 27,955.

Kanye West is ranked number 16 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 66,801.

Kanye West official website: http://www.kanyewest.com

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Kanye West best albums

The following albums by Kanye West are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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962
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Total albums: 14. Page 1 of 2

This may not be a complete discography for Kanye West.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Kanye West bestography composition

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Live? Albums %
No 13 93%
Yes 1 7%

Kanye West best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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Rating: 92 (718 votes)Comments: 13
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Rating: 91 (451 votes)Comments: 7
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(from the album The College Dropout)
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Rating: 90 (287 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album Ye)
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Rating: 90 (380 votes)Comments: 7
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(from the album The Life Of Pablo)
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Rating: 90 (455 votes)Comments: 9
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(from the album Yeezus)
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Rating: 89 (327 votes)Comments: 6
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(from the album Graduation)
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Rating: 89 (142 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Donda)
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Rating: 89 (216 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album The Life Of Pablo)
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Rating: 89 (309 votes)Comments: 10
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(from the album The Life Of Pablo)
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Rating: 88 (139 votes)Comments: 5
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(from the album Donda)
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Rating: 88 (284 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Late Registration)
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Rating: 88 (374 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Late Registration)
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Rating: 88 (393 votes)Comments: 10
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(from the album Yeezus)
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Kanye West ratings

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79/100 (from 277 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 5% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 25.7.

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Kanye West comments

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From 11/17/2022 03:23
Quite frankly these days I don't blame anyone who refuses to listen to him due to his antics and public persona, but I still firmly hold the belief that this guy is a savant with an immense musical gift (that comes at the great expense of almost all other traits). He is a Bowie-like figure in his genre, a real chameleonic artist where no two records truly sound alike, and almost all of them (at least before his brain truly seems to have broken in the past few years) are supreme works of art. And besides, while it may be a toxic belief, some of the most compelling artists were not very great human beings (Prince, Chuck Berry, John Lennon, Morrissey, etc.).

I contend that his first 7 solo albums are right up there in terms of classic runs with the likes of Neil Young, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Radiohead, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.

To witness his drastic mental decline in the past few years is one of the greatest tragedy cases in music history alongside Presley and Winehouse.
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From 05/31/2022 05:45
He is not the greatest emcee, but he may be the greatest musical figure of this century
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From 02/18/2022 04:15
I haven't loved his most recent work, but despite his often-abrasive and irritating behaviour and comments, Kanye's one of our greatest musical icons. His understanding of sound and the art of sampling, and his constant efforts to evolve and change his sound over the years have resulted in some of the greatest albums of the last twenty-odd years, in any genre. He's one of the few working today I would call a genius, and like many geniuses, his personality isn't always the greatest. But his music is honest and human and if you ignore his persona and focus on his art, there is much reward to be gained.
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From 05/13/2021 15:26
A genius for sure. His personality and public persona have tarnished his image, but Kanye West in an excellent artist and one of the best artists of the 21st Century. Kanye alongside Kendrick Lamar and Eminem helped get me into hip hop, and he's proven to be heavily influential on modern hip hop, particularly the current trap era. He's a pretty good rapper, but he's a truly fantastic songwriter and conceptualiser. And he's released some classic albums that will stand the test of time.

Even if you don't like hip hop, I'd recommend listening to his work. He's a very interesting artist. He samples from a wide variety of influences such as funk, soul, jazz, rock, metal, punk, indie, etc. Makes for a unique listening experience in terms of rap music.
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From 05/13/2021 13:10
one of the few hip hoppers I can tolerate.....
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From 12/09/2020 15:22
Love or hate him, he's a musical genius and Hip Hop would never have been the same without him.
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From 06/13/2020 18:00
Greatest Hip-Hop Star of the era 2010s
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From 10/06/2019 17:49
Absolutely one of the greatest musicians of the 21st Century, explored every range of emotions from religion to heartbreak to social injustice. His production is one of the best in the Hip Hop community and the fact that is paired with an exceptional rapper and charismatic personality makes for the BEST musician in his genre if not of modern times.
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