top 25 solo Beatles albums (1970-2020)
by davidhuret 
- Chart updated: 06/01/2026 12:45
- (Created: 03/13/2014 11:03).
- Chart size: 25 albums.
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George Harrison launches his post-Beatles career in style with an epic and classy demonstration of what he couldn't do within the Fab Four. A major songwriter and guitar player at his creative peak. Even Phil Spector's Wall of Sound is thrilling. The best album by a solo Beatle?
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1970
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11,942
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Following the break-up of the Beatles, John and Yoko started a psycho-therapy with Doctor Arthur "Primal Scream" Janov. The result? This stark masterpiece of confessionnal songwriting, minimalist in its arrangements, intense and wounded. Terrific, harrowing stuff.
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1970
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9,047
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After his utterly charming homemade solo debut, and the major artistic statements of George and John, Beatle Paul had yet everything to prove as a solo artist by then. He did it with this pop extravaganza of an album, ragged yet sophisticated, tight and loose, carefully crafted but retaining a spontaneous feel. A marvellous, highly melodic and energetic musical achievement (those vocal harmonies!). The miracle is that he keeps on making brilliant (often) music to this day.
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1971
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4,866
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Macca's most commercially successful album... and one of the very best released by a former Beatle. Most of the backing tracks were recorded in Lagos, Nigeria, under trying circumstances. Catchy, uplifting, and bearing repeated listening exceptionnally well.
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1973
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6,162
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His most famous album. The title-track has become part of human heritage, but it shouln't overshadow the rest of the album, full to the brim of great songs and contrasting moods.
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1971
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4,661
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A wonderful piece of work, unusually serious in tone- with lighter moments- mostly performed solo (a multi-instrumentalist at the top of his game), with Nigel Godrich overseeing the proceedings.
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2005
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978
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An adventurous album by a super famous musician in disguise, who plays everything on it; 13 tracks recorded in 13 days over a 12-month period, with Youth (ex-Killing Joke) producing.
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George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison deliver an ego-free, superb and fun set of songs in serendipitous conditions. Miraculous.
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1988
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2,072
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The "Lost Weekend" album. A drunken, loutish, misbehaving, enstranged-from-Yoko, and more insecure than ever, Lennon suddenly sobers up and records this excellent and haunting collection of finely arranged songs, while keeping their intrinsic rawness thanks to his exceptionnal singing.
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1974
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309
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The largely home-recorded (+ a couple of studio sessions), truely solo debut, recorded as a one-man-band in the midst of the acrimonious Break-Up. The album retains an endearing homemade feel, with lots of brilliant, if half-finished, ideas; lo-fi 25 years before the term was coined. Oh, and there's "Maybe I'm amazed" on it.
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1970
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top 25 solo Beatles albums (1970-2020) composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 4% | |
| 1970s | 11 | 44% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 2 | 8% | |
| 2000s | 3 | 12% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 4% | |
| 2020s | 2 | 8% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Paul McCartney | 11 | 44% | |
| George Harrison | 6 | 24% | |
| John Lennon | 3 | 12% | |
| Ringo Starr | 2 | 8% | |
| The Fireman | 1 | 4% | |
| The Traveling Wilburys | 1 | 4% | |
| John Lennon & Yoko Ono | 1 | 4% |
top 25 solo Beatles albums (1970-2020) chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 11th to 12thRingo by Ringo Starr |
| Down 1 from 12th to 13thFlaming Pie by Paul McCartney |
| Down 1 from 13th to 14thBrainwashed by George Harrison |
| New entries |
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| The Boys Of Dungeon Lane by Paul McCartney |
| Leavers |
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| London Town by Wings |
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