Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by sebfox 
These are my favourite albums. I regularly update this chart as I re-listen a lot and there are great new albums coming out all the time. Well, there were in 2016.
"I wasn't born so much as I fell out"
- The Clash
- Chart updated: 10/14/2020 10:15
- (Created: 04/30/2015 12:25).
- 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 | 17 | 17% | |
| 1970s | 29 | 29% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 6 | 6% | |
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 5% | |
| David Bowie | 4 | 4% | |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 3% | |
| Michael Jackson | 3 | 3% | |
| Weezer | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 3 from 100th to 97th Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple |
| Up 3 from 99th to 96th Rain Dogs by Tom Waits |
| Up 3 from 98th to 95th Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter |
| New entries |
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 A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationshipsby The 1975 |
| Let England Shake by PJ Harvey |
| The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance |
| Leavers |
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 Led Zeppelin IIby Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin |
| The Smiths by The Smiths |
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100/100 | 11/17/2020 22:19 | BoC | | 84/100 |
95/100 | 10/14/2020 18:36 | Szyfman | | 85/100 |
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Larcx13 10/14/2020 10:20
Nice list
Marquee Moon is an awesome album to have at number one.
Nice picks of classics and great deep cuts!
ForegroundNoise 10/13/2018 08:30
Nice chart!!
jdenny2018 07/31/2018 16:42
Not a lot of qualms with this list. Well done
C_Krug2009 03/23/2018 18:03
Talk Talk and Detones, don't see those on a lot of charts
25 albums in common, awesome chart!
Very very good chart!
I like it, especially the top 20
Awesome chart, many classic albums! All I would recommend is to see some representation from the 1950s. Other than that, keep up the good work.
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