Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 12/21/2020 19:15
- (Created: 09/30/2019 19:13).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Favourite tracks: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Crown of Love, Wake Up
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2019]
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2004
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33,656
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Favourite tracks: Death with Dignity, Should Have Known Better, The Only Thing
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2020]
Year of Release:
2015
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16,055
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Favourite tracks: Sunday Morning, Venus in Furs, Heroin
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
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1967
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39,131
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Favourite tracks: King of Carrot Flowers pt1, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Holland 1945
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
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1998
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31,879
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Favourite tracks: 21st Century Schizoid Man, Epitaph, The Court of the Crimson King
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2020]
Year of Release:
1969
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27,873
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Favourite tracks: Something, Here Comes the Sun, You Never Give Me Your Money
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
Year of Release:
1969
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56,589
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Favourite tracks: 15 Step, All I Need, Reckoner
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
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2007
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42,843
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Favourite tracks: Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
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1968
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36,857
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Favourite tracks: Wouldn't it be Nice, Sloop John B, God Only Knows
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
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1966
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38,272
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Favourite tracks: One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), Just Like a Woman, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2019]
Year of Release:
1966
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24,819
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1970s | 29 | 29% | |
| 1980s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 9 | 9% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| The Beatles | 6 | 6% | |
| Radiohead | 4 | 4% | |
| Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 4% | |
| The Doors | 4 | 4% | |
| The Strokes | 3 | 3% | |
| Tom Waits | 3 | 3% | |
| Show all | |||
Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 31 from 70th to 39thHatful Of Hollow by The Smiths |
| Up 17 from 60th to 43rdYankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco |
| Up 16 from 26th to 10thBlonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan |
| Biggest fallers |
|---|
| Down 14 from 36th to 50thI Love You, Honeybear by Father John Misty |
| Down 13 from 72nd to 85thThe Joshua Tree by U2 |
| Down 12 from 82nd to 94thSurfer Rosa by Pixies |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| 11/23/2021 12:59 |  Cytoma | 170 | 90/100 | |
| 07/08/2021 15:17 |  Goliath | 350 | 86/100 | |
| 06/29/2021 21:00 | Larcx13 | 1,138 | 86/100 | |
| 04/06/2021 03:43 |  AvalancheGrips | 127 | 89/100 | |
| 02/17/2021 19:52 | sweetness | 75 | 84/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 10% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.9/100, a mean average of 89.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.6/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 6.3.
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From Goliath 07/08/2021 15:17 | #271446
Goliath 07/08/2021 15:17 | #271446
19 in common, great list, but I cannot agree with the top 10!
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sssvnnn 05/04/2020 18:28 | #250916
sssvnnn 05/04/2020 18:28 | #250916
Very good and very classical chart.
I´d like it even more with some more "unusual albums" instead of so many Radiohead and Beatles albums.
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buzzdainer 04/19/2020 20:17 | #250248
buzzdainer 04/19/2020 20:17 | #250248
Excellent chart! It's tough to argue with Arcade Fire's Funeral at #1, as that one made my top five as well. It's a perfect rendering of the qualities I loved in eighties and nineties rock with a twenty-first century indie rock sensibility. Looking forward to checking out some of your selections that are less familiar to me.
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