Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by smahonachie

Chart updated: 08/08/2026 20:45
(Created: 11/21/2009 21:08).
Chart size: 40 albums.

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OK Computer

Radiohead

Favourite Tracks: Paranoid Android, Let Down, The Tourist [First added to this chart: 11/21/2009]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

4,467 charts

Rank Score:

59,871

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Come Together, You Never Give Me Your Money, Something [First added to this chart: 03/22/2011]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,770 charts

Rank Score:

54,369

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Average Rating:

92 (4,674 votes)

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477

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Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

Go Your Own Way, The Chain, You Make Loving Fun, [First added to this chart: 08/03/2025]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

2,339 charts

Rank Score:

29,590

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Hounds of Love, Running Up that Hill, Cloudbusting [First added to this chart: 11/21/2009]

Year of Release:

1985

Appears in:

1,430 charts

Rank Score:

17,761

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What's Going On, Mercy Mercy Me, Inner City Blues [First added to this chart: 03/12/2011]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,667 charts

Rank Score:

18,328

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Average Rating:

85 (1,975 votes)

Comments:

146

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The Stone Roses

She Bangs the Drums, Made of Stone, I Am
the Resurrection [First added to this chart: 06/02/2026]

Year of Release:

1989

Appears in:

2,048 charts

Rank Score:

22,036

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Life On Mars?, Changes, Oh! You Pretty Things, [First added to this chart: 11/21/2009]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,878 charts

Rank Score:

18,464

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Man Next Door, Angel, Teardrop [First added to this chart: 01/02/2010]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

1,058 charts

Rank Score:

9,570

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Overall Rank:

140

Average Rating:

83 (1,302 votes)

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Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

So What, Freddie Freeloader [First added to this chart: 02/17/2011]

Year of Release:

1959

Appears in:

1,661 charts

Rank Score:

20,986

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To Bring You My Love, Send His Love to Me, Long Snake Moan [First added to this chart: 02/17/2011]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

525 charts

Rank Score:

3,598

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Overall Rank:

469

Average Rating:

81 (621 votes)

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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	1	3%
1960s	4	10%
1970s	10	25%
1980s	5	13%
1990s	10	25%
2000s	5	13%
2010s	3	8%
2020s	2	5%

Artist	Albums	%

Kate Bush	1	3%
D'Angelo	1	3%
Wu-Tang Clan	1	3%
Talking Heads	1	3%
Marvin Gaye	1	3%
FKA Twigs	1	3%
Tori Amos	1	3%
Show all

Country	Albums	%

	18	45%
	16	40%
	2	5%
	2	5%
	1	3%
	1	3%

Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 8 from 34th to 26th Remain In Light by Talking Heads
Up 6 from 36th to 30th Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
Up 2 from 33rd to 31st Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) by Led Zeppelin

Biggest fallers
Down 5 from 28th to 33rd Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Down 5 from 29th to 34th Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Down 5 from 30th to 35th Disintegration by The Cure

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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums ratings

Average Rating:

85/100 (from 18 votes)

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90/100 !	12/19/2018 17:49	Peppermint	20	78/100
90/100 !	01/26/2017 22:34	Seab	1,998	93/100
100/100 !	10/14/2013 20:08	JusticeDone	424	96/100
85/100 !	08/14/2012 16:25	ZebraRock	95	87/100
90/100 !	11/29/2011 12:14	Bach	970	78/100

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From Peppermint 12/19/2018 17:49 | #227448

There is a decent variation on your chart here. Great to see Kate Bush and PJ Harvey's "Let England Shake"
Also great to see Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" on here too!