Top 50 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 06/03/2018 14:15
- (Created: 06/29/2013 19:38).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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Top 3 Tracks - Nude, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Reckoner
[First added to this chart: 06/30/2013]
Year of Release:
2007
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43,882
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Top 3 Tracks - Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels), Wake Up, Rebellion (Lies)
[First added to this chart: 10/25/2013]
Year of Release:
2004
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34,247
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Top 3 Tracks - Airbag, Paranoid Android, No Surprises
[First added to this chart: 06/30/2013]
Year of Release:
1997
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63,644
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Top 3 Tracks - Debaser, Here Comes Your Man, Hey
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2014]
Year of Release:
1989
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31,541
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Top 3 Tracks - Get Innocuous!, Time To Get Away, All My Friends
[First added to this chart: 06/03/2018]
Year of Release:
2007
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11,942
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Top 3 Tracks - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Jesus etc, Poor Places
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
2002
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17,155
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Top 3 Tracks - King of Carrot Flowers Pt.1, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Holland 1945
[First added to this chart: 03/14/2014]
Year of Release:
1998
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32,873
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Top 3 Tracks - The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our House, Bored in the USA, Holy Shit
Year of Release:
2015
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5,337
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Top 3 Tracks - Sorrow, Bloodbuzz Ohio, England
[First added to this chart: 01/25/2017]
Year of Release:
2010
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10,576
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Top 3 Tracks - Death With Dignity, Should Have Known Better, Fourth of July
[First added to this chart: 08/16/2015]
Year of Release:
2015
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16,248
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Total albums: 50. Page 1 of 5
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 4 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 14% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 12 | 24% | |
| 2000s | 15 | 30% | |
| 2010s | 8 | 16% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Radiohead | 4 | 8% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 6% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 6% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 2 | 4% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 4% | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 2 | 4% | |
| Car Seat Headrest | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 8th to 9th High Violet by The National |
| Down 1 from 9th to 10th Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens |
| Down 1 from 10th to 11th The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd |
| New entries |
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| I Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty |
| Leavers |
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| American Idiot by Green Day |
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/27/2025 15:10 | DrewHamster | 317 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2021 22:34 |  Mercury | 257 | 95/100 |
| ! | 02/03/2020 10:38 | Vegetariat | 4 | 94/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2019 19:54 | pctrooper | 332 | 88/100 |
| ! | 09/07/2019 19:35 |  LedZep | 1,104 | 84/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 84.0/100, a mean average of 83.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.7/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 12.4.
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From Mercury 04/07/2021 22:34 | #268307
Mercury 04/07/2021 22:34 | #268307
Great chart! Cant wait to see it at 100.
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From Vegetariat 02/03/2020 10:39 | #247455
10 in common and a great list overall!
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Brad1770 12/19/2017 12:49 | #203555
Brad1770 12/19/2017 12:49 | #203555
Great to see Car Seat Headrest included, it’s not on my all time chart but certainly on my best of for 2016
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JulianR 08/10/2017 07:51 | #195848
JulianR 08/10/2017 07:51 | #195848
good, but ya it is 2000's heavy
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From ecwllm 06/18/2016 03:35 | #169008
We share five discs, eight artists, and you name several others that are close behind my top 40. I really like the diversity of your list -- different eras, different styles. While you give at least a couple of bands several spots, so be it. Besides, I like Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Sufjan too. Good job -- I look forward to seeing how your rankings evolve.
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From YikYak 06/18/2016 01:14 | #168995
Thirty albums in common!! Great choices!
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From chriskarman 06/18/2016 00:57 | #168994
A lot of albums in common!
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From LedZep 06/17/2016 23:29 | #168991
LedZep 06/17/2016 23:29 | #168991
maybe a little too hipster for me, but still 14 albums in common. Keep up the good work!
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rafalink 06/17/2016 12:34 | #168966
rafalink 06/17/2016 12:34 | #168966
I like the chart. Is very close of my personal taste and it's full from classics and modern albums, but it is like you've said on the chart description, is too full from the same artists.
I feel like I'm looking a BEA Overal chart. You have only one album that is not TOP 10 on its year released. You should search for different things to.
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From LordMark 06/17/2016 10:08 | #168954
Even though you currently only have a top 50, we already have 25 albums in common!
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