Roy Orbison United States

Variations: Roy Orbison And Friends.

The best album credited to Roy Orbison is Mystery Girl which is ranked number 2,754 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 564.

Roy Orbison is ranked number 823 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 2,000 (this takes into account any aliases or variations).

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Mystery Girl 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition by Roy Orbison (CD, 2014)
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Roy Orbison - Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart / Wait 45
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CD 2494 Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl CD (1989 Virgin Records)
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Roy Orbison best albums

The following albums by Roy Orbison are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1989
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564
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1963
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446
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1962
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321
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1961
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305
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1964
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112
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1966
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21
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1992
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12
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1965
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8
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Total albums: 22. Page 1 of 3

This may not be a complete discography for Roy Orbison.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!

Roy Orbison bestography composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 14 0%
1970s 3 0%
1980s 7 0%
1990s 7 0%
2000s 3 0%
2010s 1 0%
2020s 0 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 22 63%
Yes 13 37%
Live? Albums %
No 33 94%
Yes 2 6%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 34 97%
Yes 1 3%

Roy Orbison 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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1.
Rating: 88 (63 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album In Dreams)
3.
Rating: 88 (74 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Crying)
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Rating: 84 (44 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Oh, Pretty Woman)
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Rating: 84 (44 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album In Dreams)
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Rating: 84 (64 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 84 (39 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Crying)
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Rating: 83 (34 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 82 (36 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Lonely And Blue)
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Rating: 80 (26 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 80 (6 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album 16 Biggest Hits)
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Rating: 80 (29 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Lonely And Blue)
13.
Rating: 79 (22 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 79 (27 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Lonely And Blue)
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Rating: 79 (35 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Crying)
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Rating: 79 (9 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album King Of Hearts)
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Rating: 79 (21 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 79 (22 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 78 (22 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
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Rating: 78 (23 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Mystery Girl)
N.B. Tracks must have received at least 3 ratings to appear in the above list.

Roy Orbison ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 42 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 78.9/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 14.5.

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From 11/01/2020 19:59
One of the greatest singers of all time. Better than Elvis in my opinion.
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From 01/01/2019 04:01
Don't understand the raves about this voice. Way too much falsetto and dude warbles more than he actually sings.
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The Greatest Voice of all-time
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From 08/15/2010 18:19
What a voice.
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