The Beach Boys United States

The best album credited to The Beach Boys is Pet Sounds which is ranked number 11 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 45,450.

The Beach Boys is ranked number 15 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 64,927.

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The Beach Boys best albums

The following albums by The Beach Boys are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1966
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45,432
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2011
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6,400
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1971
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2,218
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1965
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1,995
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1967
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1,354
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1970
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1,282
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1968
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965
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1967
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774
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1964
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577
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1965
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Total albums: 70. Page 1 of 7

This may not be a complete discography for The Beach Boys.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!

The Beach Boys bestography composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 19 0%
1970s 16 0%
1980s 7 0%
1990s 13 0%
2000s 9 0%
2010s 5 0%
2020s 1 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 39 56%
Yes 31 44%
Live? Albums %
No 63 90%
Yes 7 10%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 69 99%
Yes 1 1%

The Beach Boys 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: 94 (1,129 votes)Comments: 25
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 93 (1,057 votes)Comments: 12
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 92 (517 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album The Smile Sessions)
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Rating: 92 (415 votes)Comments: 8
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(from the album Smiley Smile)
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Rating: 91 (289 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album The Smile Sessions)
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Rating: 91 (285 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album The Smile Sessions)
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Rating: 89 (740 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 89 (196 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Surf's Up)
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Rating: 89 (162 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Smiley Smile)
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Rating: 88 (209 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album All Summer Long)
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Rating: 88 (630 votes)Comments: 5
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 88 (621 votes)Comments: 6
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 87 (83 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Shut Down, Volume 2)
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Rating: 87 (631 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 87 (598 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 87 (197 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album The Smile Sessions)
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Rating: 87 (591 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album Pet Sounds)
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Rating: 87 (182 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album The Smile Sessions)
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The Beach Boys ratings

Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 338 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 2% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 82.9/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.1/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.5.

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From 05/08/2023 07:13
Lonely Sea from 1963 is their best track in career 🥰👍🏻
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From 08/01/2021 15:14
The Beach Boys are a lot better band than people give them credit for. The general public views them mostly as a surf group, and all the critics lavish the acclaim on Pet Sounds and the single "Good Vibrations", and for good reason. Pet Sounds is their masterpiece and a defining pop/rock album. But they have at least a dozen albums that range from good to great. Their early surf-oriented albums/songs like Surfin' Sufari, Shut Down Vol 2, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coup, All Summer Long and Summer Days (And Summer Nights) are really well done pop, defined by gorgeous harmonies inspired by doo wop and R&B. The Beach Boys Today! is basically proto-Pet Sounds. and their later late-60s/early-to-mid-70s output consists of weirder, more eclectic albums like Surf's Up, Holland, Carl and the Passions, Wild Honey, Sunflower and 50/50 that are super interesting and filled with great songs offered up by the other members of the band.

Still, Brian Wilson is a genius.
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From 05/02/2021 23:21
Favourite album: Pet Sounds
Favourite song: God Only Knows
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From 03/11/2021 14:11
I would say these guys get a bit too much praise, considering pet sounds was their only classic album. Besides pet sounds, their discography is very inconsistent. Also, Brian Wilson is a genius.
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From 02/05/2021 17:24
Six years on from the start of my Beach Boys love, I can comfortably say that they are the greatest artists in the history of popular music. Spearheaded by the genius of Brian Wilson, the group recorded the two greatest albums ever made (Pet Sounds and SMiLE) alongside a host of other masterpieces throughout their 60 year career.
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From 06/13/2020 17:56
I like The Beach Boys the influences much even The Beatles great band.
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From 07/12/2019 19:06
For people saying The Beach Boys didn't play their own instruments, while yes, at Brian Wilson's peak the Wrecking Crew played most the material (which was more due to the rest of the band being on tour than them not being able to do so), after that The Beach Boys started to play their material. And I do in all honesty consider the 9-album run The Beach Boys had from 1966's Pet Sounds to 1973's Holland the most consistently amazing output by any band ever. It was also not just Brian doing everything. Carl Wilson stepped in as a producer for most of the material from '69 onward, Dennis, Bruce and Carl all wrote some awesome material, and yes, the material by Brian slipping through every so often was breathtaking, too.
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