Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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Champ 
- Chart updated: 10/10/2014 18:15
- (Created: 12/27/2011 00:59).
- 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 | 5 | 5% | |
| 1960s | 21 | 21% | |
| 1970s | 39 | 39% | |
| 1980s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1990s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2000s | 10 | 10% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| John Zorn | 2 | 2% | |
| Robert Wyatt | 2 | 2% | |
| Van Morrison | 2 | 2% | |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 2% | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 2 | 2% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1 | 1% | |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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52 | 52% | |
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23 | 23% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 10/06/2020 00:48 | RioBravo | 201 | 84/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2020 06:56 | 99 | 92/100 | |
| ! | 02/21/2017 16:02 | Seab | 2,005 | 93/100 |
| ! | 12/31/2015 18:49 | 974 | 75/100 | |
| ! | 05/01/2015 21:34 | 32 | 85/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 7% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 88.3/100, a mean average of 87.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.5/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 11.8.
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Great chart
Great chart!
Neat chart!
Great!!!
Great album The Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson almost put that in my list
super chart!
Great list. We seem to agree on everything but the relative weighting of old and new music.
excellent chart
love to see Lhase De Sela in it.
Love love love this fucking chart so so so hard! I stumbled upon it by chance. I saw that James Ulmer wa on just 3 charts on il this entire site! And this lead me here!
I will use this list for recommendations. Please come back to BEA and keep this chart alive as it needs to be seen.
Oh and please add your last item to bring to 100.
nice chart
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