Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by thenat 
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As of 30/12/17 I have listened to 509 of bea top 1000 (94 of bea top 100)
My Top 100 contains 27 albums in bea top 100
My Top 100 contains 66 albums in bea top 1000
My Top 100 contains 78 albums in bea top 2000
My Top 100 contains 91 albums in bea top 5000
My Top 100 contains 96 albums in bea top 10000
- Chart updated: 10/25/2018 21:15
- (Created: 06/21/2016 11:42).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 13 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 35 | 35% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2000s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 15% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| The Beatles | 10 | 10% | |
| David Bowie | 6 | 6% | |
| Pink Floyd | 5 | 5% | |
| Rory Gallagher | 5 | 5% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4% | |
| Kasabian | 4 | 4% | |
| Eminem | 4 | 4% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 1 from 75th to 74thMoon Landing by James Blunt |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 74th to 76thKamikaze by Eminem |
| Down 1 from 76th to 77thParachutes by Coldplay |
| Down 1 from 77th to 78thLet It Be by The Beatles |
| New entries |
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| Venus And Mars by Wings (UK) |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this chart. | Show all 10 ratings for this chart.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/01/2025 13:53 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,095 | 85/100 | |
| 05/19/2024 00:06 | C0NB9NN | 20 | 85/100 | |
| 09/20/2019 15:16 | leniad | 669 | 85/100 | |
| 10/27/2018 23:25 | DJENNY | 4,338 | 100/100 | |
| 12/19/2017 10:15 | TheSmiths82-87 | 1,829 | 83/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some charts can have several thousand ratings)
This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 84.5/100, a mean average of 84.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.2/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 8.5.
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Very respectable chart. 25 albums in common and same top 2
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| Best Artists of the 2000s | |
|---|---|
| 1. Radiohead | |
| 2. Arcade Fire | |
| 3. The Strokes | |
| 4. Coldplay | |
| 5. Sufjan Stevens | |
| 6. Muse | |
| 7. Arctic Monkeys | |
| 8. Wilco | |
| 9. Animal Collective | |
| 10. The White Stripes | |
| 11. Kanye West | |
| 12. Phil Elverum | |
| 13. Interpol | |
| 14. Modest Mouse | |
| 15. Queens Of The Stone Age | |
| 16. Madvillain | |
| 17. LCD Soundsystem | |
| 18. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
| 19. The National | |
| 20. The Flaming Lips |
