Greatest 100 Albums of All Time
by The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums with NME
(2006) 
British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom. In 2004 the book became an amalgamation of two earlier Guinness publications, originally known as British Hit Singles and British Hit Albums. The publication of this amalgamation ceased in 2006. These are their best albums of all time. The survey was put together by the book of British Hit Singles and Albums and NME.com to celebrate 50 years of the Official UK Album Chart, with votes coming in from the around the world. (N.B. The albums in this chart are not just restricted to those from the UK.)
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1994
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1967
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1966
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1997
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1995
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16,819
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1991
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1989
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21,892
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1973
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55,807
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1986
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31,240
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Greatest 100 Albums of All Time composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1970s | 30 | 30% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 23 | 23% | |
| 2000s | 21 | 21% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 3% | |
| Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
| Queen | 3 | 3% | |
| Coldplay | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 2 | 2% | |
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| Top 500 Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone | Overall chart | 2003 | |
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10/22/2011 00:37 | #28814
2 Oasis albums in the top 10 best albums ever! Really??? That is a joke right?
3 Coldplay albums in the Top 100 *shudder*
Do the people who vote for these things actually listen to music or are they just voting for what they perceive is 'cool' or 'what I am supposed to like'?
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Space-Dementia 08/08/2015 23:40 | #147362
Space-Dementia 08/08/2015 23:40 | #147362
Wow I just find this list really funny. The top 20 has 17 British artists and two freaking American artists. Like come on I'm sure there's more than two American albums in the top 20.
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shamp30 08/27/2009 12:06 | #5903
shamp30 08/27/2009 12:06 | #5903
Oasis? I can't get past that first pick. I can't wait til they get forgotten.
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mh95 02/14/2012 09:30 | #36863
Why all this hate?
Actually I don't think this chart is bad (even if the Spice Girls hurt me a little).
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GandalfORiley345 03/26/2014 00:03 | #107542
GandalfORiley345 03/26/2014 00:03 | #107542
wll i Like this one more than the Rolling Stone one, here there´s no Beatles everywhere
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