Ray Charles 
The best album credited to Ray Charles is The Genius Of Ray Charles which is ranked number 993 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,749.
Ray Charles is ranked number 285 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 7,065.
- See also:
- Ray Charles With The Jack Halloran Singers & The Raelets
- Ray Charles And His Orchestra
- Ray Charles / David Newman
- David Newman (Jazz)
- Ray Charles & Milt Jackson
- Ray Charles & Betty Carter
- Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra
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| 02/16/2025 10:20 |  JR | 345 | 81/100 | |
| 05/06/2024 20:11 |  paladisiac | 1,039 | 67/100 | |
| 02/20/2024 09:29 | zsolti | 217 | 81/100 | |
| 01/09/2024 07:42 | platus | 2,137 | 72/100 | |
| 09/29/2023 09:42 | MaxStorm98 | 542 | 92/100 |
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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 80.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.2/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 12.0.
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9999 06/10/2018 15:33 | #216487
They called him "the Genius", and with good reason. Yeah, I get it, this is an album site, and that's why most artists from the pre-album era don't get their fair due. Ray is maybe the greatest of them all. Killer singer, brilliant songwriter, tremendous pianist, fantastic improviser, all while being innovative, provocative and influential as hell. The guy could do it all. I can't endorse a "best artists" list that doesn't include him at least in the top 25.
RoundTheBend 08/14/2016 07:40 | #172881
Dude can sing and play like nobodies business. He's got a soul, jazz, rock n' roll, gospel... well damn... he's got it all going on. Fantastic musician and songwriter. You might even venture and say he's the backbone of American Music, bridging the old world with the new.
tgarritsen 10/11/2013 14:47 | #88189
Extrem;y gifted musician
junodog4 08/29/2012 01:01 | #49526
You somehow get the impression from his work that Ray Charles was more of a scoundrel than Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, or Marvin Gaye. He sings about hard luck and women from an honest perspective. He got a little slick in his later years, but his early work is gritty and soulful.
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