100 Greatest Albums Ever
by Q (2006) 
Q was a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. These are their best albums of all time. Q is a music and entertainment magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Q compiled their definitive list of the 100 Best Albums Of All Time.
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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100 Greatest Albums Ever composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1970s | 25 | 25% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 32 | 32% | |
| 2000s | 12 | 12% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| The Beatles | 5 | 5% | |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 3% | |
| Nirvana | 3 | 3% | |
| Bob Dylan | 3 | 3% | |
| David Bowie | 3 | 3% | |
| R.E.M. | 3 | 3% | |
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100 Greatest Albums Ever similar charts
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums |  RFNAPLES | Overall chart | 2013 | |
| 100 Greatest Albums Ever | Q | Overall chart | 2003 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Narcan | Overall chart | 2011 | |
| Overall Top 100 Ranked Correctly |  Mother Nature's Son | Custom chart | 2014 |  |
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Q | Overall chart | 1997 | |
| Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums | Virgin | Overall chart | 2000 | |
| Greatest 100 Albums of All Time | The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums with NME | Overall chart | 2006 | |
| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Channel 4 | Overall chart | 2005 | |
| Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums | Virgin | Overall chart | 1998 | |
| The Guardian 100 Best Albums Ever | The Guardian | Overall chart | 1997 | |
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Other overall charts
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 500 Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone | Overall chart | 2003 | |
| NME 's 100 Best Albums Of All Time | New Music Express | Overall chart | 2003 | |
| 100 Best Albums - 2024 Edition | Apple Music | Overall chart | 2024 | |
Other charts by Q
A total of 22 charts from Q are available; the 3 most recent of this type are highlighted below.
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | Q | Overall chart | 1997 | |
| 100 Greatest Albums Ever | Q | Overall chart | 2006 | |
| 100 Greatest Albums Ever | Q | Overall chart | 2003 | |
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gon2bed 01/16/2015 13:11 | #131657
It's great to see what people voted, this is voted by the readers of the mag. You can't argue with public polls. It's annoying seeing these lists that just having the old bands in there. Radiohead are well deserving on their 1,2 and 10. Oasis are deserving too. I guess we have a lot of Americans on this and they don't understand that people in the UK love other bands as much as beatles, rolling stones and the old bands.
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melc88 09/05/2011 13:51 | #27093
Q must be the main sponsor of Radiohead! Again! I have all their albums and very much enjoy their music but, 3 in the top 10 tut tut tut!
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jjstraka 10/09/2010 03:07 | #15572
I like to inject sanity into music debates. Are Radiohead a good, even great band? Yes. Do The Bends and Ok Computer deserve to be in a top 100, even 50? Yes. Did Radiohead make the two greatest albums of all time? Of course not, it is absurd. Also, I like The Verve fine, but they have no place on any top 100 list that isn't a personal one.
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btener11 02/07/2013 20:38 | #64403
btener11 02/07/2013 20:38 | #64403
2 oasis albums in the top 10...think about that for a second...
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KinkyAfro 02/09/2013 23:08 | #64635
Yes, Maybe the rankings are a bit wrong but if I remember correctly this was a chart put together by votes, not self important journalists sat around a table deciding what was "cool". Qs reader base obviously like radiohead and oasis, and being a UK magazine, there's always going to be a lot of love for britpop. How else would urban hymms get into the top 20! Much prefer this to any of the other magazine charts who try to dictate what people should like and why. As I've said, I wouldn't have them in this order, but some great albums in there in there that usually wouldn't make it into these lists as journalists would dismiss them as they're not "important and influencial". For an album to be your personal favourite, it doesn't need to be, you just have to enjoy listening to it, and people must like listening to these.
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