Top 40 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 12/31/2018 13:15
- (Created: 10/16/2017 23:59).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Time Stand Still(At the Iron Hill)
2. Curse of Feanor
3. Mirror Mirror
4. When Sorrow Sang
5. Noldor(Dead Winter Reigns)
Worst Song: Lammoth
Other Key Albums: Battalions of Fear, Tales from the Twilight World, Somewhere far Beyond, Imaginations from the other side, At the Edge of Time [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
1. Time Stand Still(At the Iron Hill)
2. Curse of Feanor
3. Mirror Mirror
4. When Sorrow Sang
5. Noldor(Dead Winter Reigns)
Worst Song: Lammoth
Other Key Albums: Battalions of Fear, Tales from the Twilight World, Somewhere far Beyond, Imaginations from the other side, At the Edge of Time [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Say It Ain't So
2. In The Garage
3. Undone - The Sweater Song
4. Buddy Holly
5. Only In Dreams
Worst Song: Holiday
Other Key Albums: Pinkerton, Weezer The Green Album, Make Believe, Everything Will be Alright in the End, Weezer The White Album [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
1. Say It Ain't So
2. In The Garage
3. Undone - The Sweater Song
4. Buddy Holly
5. Only In Dreams
Worst Song: Holiday
Other Key Albums: Pinkerton, Weezer The Green Album, Make Believe, Everything Will be Alright in the End, Weezer The White Album [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
Year of Release:
1994
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14,403
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Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Hey You
2. Comfortably Numb
3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
4. Goodbye Blue Sky
5. Mother
Worst Song: In the Flesh
Other Key Albums: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atomic Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Division Bell [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
1. Hey You
2. Comfortably Numb
3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
4. Goodbye Blue Sky
5. Mother
Worst Song: In the Flesh
Other Key Albums: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atomic Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Division Bell [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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Rank Score:
23,893
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4. (=)
Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Balance Is Restored
2. Terra's Theme
3. Dancing Mad
4. Aria di Mezzo Carattere
5. Battle to the Death
Worst Song: Techno de Chocobo
Other Key Albums: Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack, Final Fantasy IX Original Soundtrack, Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
1. Balance Is Restored
2. Terra's Theme
3. Dancing Mad
4. Aria di Mezzo Carattere
5. Battle to the Death
Worst Song: Techno de Chocobo
Other Key Albums: Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack, Final Fantasy IX Original Soundtrack, Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Karma Police
2. Exit Music(For a Film)
3. No Surprises
4. Paranoid Android
5. Lucky
Worst Song: Airbag
Other Key Albums: The Bends, Kid A [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
1. Karma Police
2. Exit Music(For a Film)
3. No Surprises
4. Paranoid Android
5. Lucky
Worst Song: Airbag
Other Key Albums: The Bends, Kid A [First added to this chart: 11/03/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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Rank Score:
60,349
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Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Sudehead
2. Everyday is Like Sunday
3. Angel Angel Down We Go Together
4. Dial a Cliche
5. Late Night, Maudlin Street
Worst Song: Treat Me Like a Human Being [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
1. Sudehead
2. Everyday is Like Sunday
3. Angel Angel Down We Go Together
4. Dial a Cliche
5. Late Night, Maudlin Street
Worst Song: Treat Me Like a Human Being [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
1,462
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Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Beauty Of the Beast
2. End Of All Hope
3. Ever Dream
4. Dead To The World
5. The Phantom Of the Opera
Worst Song: Feel For You
Other Key Albums: Angels Fall First, Oceanborn, Wishmaster, Once, Dark Passion Play, Imaginaerum [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
1. Beauty Of the Beast
2. End Of All Hope
3. Ever Dream
4. Dead To The World
5. The Phantom Of the Opera
Worst Song: Feel For You
Other Key Albums: Angels Fall First, Oceanborn, Wishmaster, Once, Dark Passion Play, Imaginaerum [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. If You Wait
2. Stay Awake
3. Interlude
4. Shyer
5. Nighcall
Worst Song: Flickers
Other Key Albums: Truth is a Beautiful Thing [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
1. If You Wait
2. Stay Awake
3. Interlude
4. Shyer
5. Nighcall
Worst Song: Flickers
Other Key Albums: Truth is a Beautiful Thing [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Fade to Black
3. Ride the Lightning
4. Fight Fire With Fire
5. Trapped Under Ice
Worst Song: Escape
Other Key Albums: Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, Metallica, Hardwired...To Self-Destruct [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Fade to Black
3. Ride the Lightning
4. Fight Fire With Fire
5. Trapped Under Ice
Worst Song: Escape
Other Key Albums: Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, Metallica, Hardwired...To Self-Destruct [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
Year of Release:
1984
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Rank Score:
9,000
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Top 5 Key Tracks:
1. Tornado of Souls
2. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
3. Rust in Peace...Polaris
4. Hangar 18
5. Five Magics
Worst Song: Poison Was The Cure
Other Key Albums: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying, Countdown to Extinction, The System Has Failed, Th1rt3en, Dystopia [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
1. Tornado of Souls
2. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
3. Rust in Peace...Polaris
4. Hangar 18
5. Five Magics
Worst Song: Poison Was The Cure
Other Key Albums: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying, Countdown to Extinction, The System Has Failed, Th1rt3en, Dystopia [First added to this chart: 11/10/2017]
Year of Release:
1990
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Rank Score:
4,004
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Total albums: 40. Page 1 of 4
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 3 | 8% | |
| 1960s | 4 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 18% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 18% | |
| 1990s | 10 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 7 | 18% | |
| 2010s | 2 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Blind Guardian | 5 | 13% | |
| Pink Floyd | 4 | 10% | |
| System Of A Down | 2 | 5% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 5% | |
| Nightwish | 2 | 5% | |
| London Grammar | 1 | 3% | |
| Bob Dylan | 1 | 3% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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14 | 35% | |
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12 | 30% | |
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8 | 20% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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1 | 3% | |
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Top 40 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 30th to 31stThe Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd |
| Down 1 from 31st to 32ndBlue Train by John Coltrane |
| Down 1 from 32nd to 33rdWhat's Going On by Marvin Gaye |
| New entries |
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| Paranoid by Black Sabbath |
| Leavers |
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| Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers |
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