Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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blvckgovt 
- Chart updated: 03/04/2020 11:45
- (Created: 04/02/2018 01:29).
- 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 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1970s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 14% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Phil Elverum | 1 | 1% | |
| Wilco | 1 | 1% | |
| Leonard Cohen | 1 | 1% | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 1 | 1% | |
| Patti Smith | 1 | 1% | |
| Yo La Tengo | 1 | 1% | |
| Richard David James | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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61 | 61% | |
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20 | 20% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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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 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 50 from 74th to 24thDragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill by Grouper |
| Up 38 from 56th to 18thAtrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown |
| Up 28 from 53rd to 25thVirgins by Tim Hecker |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 77 from 20th to 97thLicensed To Ill by Beastie Boys |
| Down 49 from 49th to 98thMellow Gold by Beck |
| Down 32 from 32nd to 64thYankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco |
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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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| ! | 03/20/2025 16:54 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,087 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/23/2020 19:16 |  DriftingOrpheus | 78 | 91/100 |
| ! | 10/15/2019 16:44 | leniad | 669 | 85/100 |
| ! | 10/09/2019 15:18 |  Lachapelle | 18 | 90/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2019 17:55 |  ExTeaSea | 243 | 89/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 13% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.4/100, a mean average of 89.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 3.7.
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ExTeaSea 07/11/2019 17:57 | #239330
Great chart! Only four in common but we have a bunch of bands in common. I've listened to the majority of these.
pjohnsongolf 11/28/2018 00:22 | #225765
Why you hate MCR bro
LedZep 06/16/2018 23:39 | #216892
This is fantastic. Love to see Raw Power in top 10, also Transformer, Meat Is Murder as the best Smiths album, and a lot of variety. It seems like it's sorted by genre though, not sure I like that but they're all amazing albums.
very nice chart
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