Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
by mcgaff96 
This chart is based on my personal favourite albums, not on what are considered masterpieces by critics, ones that I have enjoyed the most in my life so far.
- Chart updated: 06/17/2015 12:45
- (Created: 10/28/2011 19:54).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 8 | 20% | |
| 1970s | 5 | 13% | |
| 1980s | 3 | 8% | |
| 1990s | 11 | 28% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 28% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 7 | 18% | |
| Radiohead | 4 | 10% | |
| Arctic Monkeys | 2 | 5% | |
| Blur | 2 | 5% | |
| Weezer | 2 | 5% | |
| The Strokes | 2 | 5% | |
| The Who | 2 | 5% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| New entries |
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| Room On Fire by The Strokes |
| Leavers |
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| Everything Will Be Alright In The End by Weezer |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 07/17/2017 15:27 | SMcCrae95 | 19 | 78/100 |
| ! | 01/11/2017 23:53 | Seab | 2,005 | 93/100 |
| ! | 08/19/2015 15:20 | 70 | 90/100 | |
| ! | 04/05/2015 06:19 | NamibiaStarr | 439 | 85/100 |
| ! | 04/17/2014 12:44 | PauloPaz | 1,759 | 89/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 80.3/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 13.6.
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Solid list if a bit lacking in new music
Cool chart. It's a nice mix of classic albums and albums you're fond of that might not be critically acclaimed.
good chart
good, good picks!
Good music, but the Chart is a bit too "classic"
Like most of it
You sir, have a very wide array of tastes. Green Day, along with Radiohead, along with the oldies all great, but all very different.
If you've seen one, you've seen them all.
Excellent! Not a single album on here I don't like and the majority of them I love.
nice albums but still needs to be enhanced.
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