Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Granny-Smith 
- Chart updated: 07/26/2019 12:45
- (Created: 08/28/2013 21:14).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 30 | 30% | |
| 2000s | 22 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Nirvana | 4 | 4% | |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | 2 | 2% | |
| Tool | 2 | 2% | |
| Kyuss | 2 | 2% | |
| System Of A Down | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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60 | 60% | |
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26 | 26% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 19 from 81st to 100th American Beauty by Grateful Dead |
| Down 1 from 65th to 66th The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks |
| Down 1 from 66th to 67th Cold Fact by Rodriguez |
| New entries |
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| Die Besten Jahre by International Music |
| Leavers |
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| Brand New Second Hand by Roots Manuva |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/25/2025 20:03 | DrewHamster | 317 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/21/2019 23:06 | 93 | 85/100 | |
| ! | 03/21/2019 19:10 | 1,104 | 84/100 | |
| ! | 03/21/2019 15:13 | 1,456 | 99/100 | |
| ! | 03/21/2019 14:11 | 238 | 91/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 12% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.6/100, a mean average of 87.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 11.6.
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Good chart!
If there is a little neglect of pre-90s stuff, there's lots of great classics here too!! I find the lesser know gems at the end of your chart especially interesting (Black Up and Los Angeles are both welcome additions), some notes would be very welcome!
Great chart, there's a lot of diversity and good picks form all over.
Me looking through this chart:
"Man, that's a great top 10.... Man, that's a great top 20.... Man, that's a great top 50.."
Incredible choices.
Some similarities, some differences. But I respect our differences. Could use a little more '80s and less '10s. Why do so many BEAers neglect that decade?
Nice one granny
Good chart. 12 albums in common. I enjoyed looking at this.
32 albums in common, 12 of which are outside of the BEA top 100.
I've gotten a ton of great recommendations from this chart, and I'm looking forward to continuing to do so
Good chart! It's literally impossible to know what is coming next on this chart - despite a lot of these albums being hugely popular you pull from a bunch of different fanbases that often don't overlap.
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