Top 99 Greatest Music Albums
by 
nocturnaldelight 
This chart is fun in progress. Currently It's dominated by 80's albums but I try to add more stuff from other decades in the future.
The first music I remember were tapes with songs from ABBA, Elton John and Jean-Michel Jarre from the late 70s. I wasn't exposed to rock or punk so the wave era of the 80s appeared to me as the logical evolution of music.
My first records were vinyl singles from David Bowie and the Eurythmics in the early 80s and I bought a lot of records until the beginning of the 90s. Then I focused more on electronic dance music (Techno, Trance & Progressive) for more than 20 years. Now I find more time to rediscover my old albums and fill the gaps. It's an interesting musical journey and BEA is a very cool place to organize your music collection.
The ranking is based on track by track ratings for every album. I calculate the album ratings with the following formula:
sum of single ratings of every track / number of tracks
Every rating above 50% means I like the song/album more or less
Every rating 80% and beyond means I really enjoy that song/album
Every rating below 50% means I don't like the song/album more or less
Every rating 20% and less means I really can't stand that song/album
short prelude or interlude tracks are excluded from album ratings
- Chart updated: 09/22/2023 22:45
- (Created: 09/03/2018 10:16).
- Chart size: 99 albums.
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Buy album 
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82,2%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Buy album
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80,5%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
1,459
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Buy album
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79,44%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Buy album
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78,5%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Year of Release:
1986
Appears in:
Rank Score:
663
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Buy album
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78,5%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Year of Release:
1989
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Rank Score:
821
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Buy album
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77,3%
[First added to this chart: 09/06/2018]
Buy album
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76,66 %
[First added to this chart: 08/07/2020]
Buy album
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75,5%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
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75%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Year of Release:
1985
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Rank Score:
949
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Buy album
- #Sponsored
75,00%
[First added to this chart: 09/03/2018]
Year of Release:
1989
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Rank Score:
26,071
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Total albums: 99. Page 1 of 10
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Top 99 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1980s | 63 | 64% | |
| 1990s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2000s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Pink Floyd | 4 | 4% | |
| Roachford | 4 | 4% | |
| Tracy Chapman | 3 | 3% | |
| a-ha | 3 | 3% | |
| Kate Bush | 3 | 3% | |
| John Cougar Mellencamp | 3 | 3% | |
| Icehouse | 3 | 3% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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57 | 58% | |
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25 | 25% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 99 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
|---|
| Down 1 from 11th to 12th High As Hope by Florence + The Machine |
| Down 1 from 12th to 13th Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins |
| Down 1 from 13th to 14th Floodland by The Sisters Of Mercy |
| New entries |
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| Shades Of Liberty by Silent Running |
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Top 99 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 12 ratings for this chart.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 03/20/2025 17:18 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,104 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2019 09:45 |  ForegroundNoise | 473 | 87/100 |
| ! | 09/11/2019 10:25 | Timooosterink | 131 | 90/100 |
| ! | 04/12/2019 17:02 |  craola | 218 | 96/100 |
| ! | 10/28/2018 22:10 |  LedZep | 1,104 | 84/100 |
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 85.4/100, a mean average of 85.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.0/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 10.0.
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From ForegroundNoise 09/14/2019 09:46 | #242566
ForegroundNoise 09/14/2019 09:46 | #242566
Sure, by your own admission a bit 80s heavy, but still a really cool mix of alternative rock and pop from that period. Good stuff
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From LedZep 10/28/2018 22:12 | #223454
LedZep 10/28/2018 22:12 | #223454
Interesting choices but looks incomplete. I'll have to rate again after you finish the chart. A nice start that's for sure
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bobbyb5 09/25/2018 10:39 | #221656
bobbyb5 09/25/2018 10:39 | #221656
Lots of long-forgotten but very good albums by 80s acts like Icehouse, Robert Cray, Enya, Billy Idol, Toni Childs, Simple Minds, The The. Very very cool.
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From 
DeusExMackia 09/05/2018 19:34 | #220617
DeusExMackia 09/05/2018 19:34 | #220617
Really, properly off the beaten track compared to a lot of charts here. Two Kate Bush albums in the top 10 is a big thumbs up for me!
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