Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by 
wenny 
The albums that please my ears the most. Order is very rough but mostly accurate.
- Chart updated: 08/19/2025 08:15
- (Created: 02/17/2019 06:30).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 02/19/2019]
Year of Release:
2007
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5,000
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[First added to this chart: 02/19/2019]
Year of Release:
1969
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28,305
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[First added to this chart: 11/25/2020]
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2008
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5,344
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[First added to this chart: 12/26/2019]
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1998
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5,034
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1988
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10,249
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[First added to this chart: 02/19/2019]
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1970
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18,787
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[First added to this chart: 07/04/2020]
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1991
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8,821
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[First added to this chart: 11/25/2020]
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[First added to this chart: 08/15/2022]
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1985
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18,197
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[First added to this chart: 04/20/2019]
Year of Release:
1972
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17,732
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1970s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 33 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2020s | 3 | 3% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Björk | 3 | 3% | |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 2% | |
| Nirvana | 2 | 2% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 2 | 2% | |
| My Bloody Valentine | 2 | 2% | |
| Boris | 2 | 2% | |
| The Mars Volta | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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49 | 49% | |
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27 | 27% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 44 from 72nd to 28th Relationship Of Command by At The Drive-In |
| Up 25 from 43rd to 18th Paranoid by Black Sabbath |
| Up 17 from 66th to 49th In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 74 from 16th to 90th A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi |
| Down 74 from 26th to 100th Silent Alarm by Bloc Party |
| Down 64 from 15th to 79th To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar |
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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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| ! | 03/06/2025 17:12 |  DommeDamian | 1,004 | 89/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2025 11:27 |  Tamthebam | 633 | 85/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2025 09:44 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,105 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2023 11:29 | BraddlesHendo | 497 | 91/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2023 23:50 | Rm12398 | 99 | 89/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 3% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 89.6/100, a mean average of 91.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 7.8.
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From DommeDamian 03/06/2025 17:12 | #307894
DommeDamian 03/06/2025 17:12 | #307894
Very solid indeed.
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From Rm12398 01/28/2023 23:51 | #293351
Fantastic Chart!
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From Johnnyo 01/28/2023 09:08 | #293327
Excellent chart
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From mianfei 01/04/2021 07:11 | #263800
Even with some artists I really dislike such as the White Stripes and Pavement, this is a solid chart.
There are some minor surprises like Isis, Ulver, and Les Rallizes Dénudés, but in the main this is just a well-thought out and effective chart.
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From MarquisMarc 07/21/2020 11:52 | #255934
Delightful range of great albums from diverse styles of music.
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guzguzgarbit 10/15/2019 16:33 | #243776
guzguzgarbit 10/15/2019 16:33 | #243776
Vespertine in the top 10! Pretty solid all around, nothing I dislike, great chart.
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From pctrooper 09/16/2019 03:13 | #242646
Really solid rock chart. I like the hip-hop picks, too. Only stuff I can't get into is Tool, Swans, and Nine Inch Nails (not melodic enough for me). Also Queens of the Stone Age... is there a particular album to start with by them cause I really don't like their few songs that I've heard. I'm a big Dead Weather fan, though!
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LedZep 04/22/2019 19:08 | #235398
LedZep 04/22/2019 19:08 | #235398
I think there's nothing to dislike here. Love every single album except King Krule, and that's because my friend with terrible taste in music likes him so I dislike him by default :D
Jokes aside, anyone who has Crimson's debut, Rain Dogs, Vespertine, White Pony, Madvillainy and The Roots that high deserves a medal.
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