Top 50 Greatest Music Albums
by Tugdual Rannou 
- Chart updated: 09/25/2010 18:41
- (Created: 07/18/2008 03:40).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 9 | 18% | |
| 1970s | 16 | 32% | |
| 1980s | 3 | 6% | |
| 1990s | 11 | 22% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers | 7 | 14% | |
| Muse | 6 | 12% | |
| Pink Floyd | 6 | 12% | |
| Radiohead | 4 | 8% | |
| The Beatles | 4 | 8% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 6% | |
| Jane's Addiction | 2 | 4% | |
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Top 50 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 7 from 22nd to 15thMarquee Moon by Television |
| Up 5 from 13th to 8thRitual De Lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction |
| Up 2 from 16th to 14thBlue by Joni Mitchell |
| Biggest fallers |
|---|
| Down 9 from 8th to 17thStadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Down 3 from 44th to 47thKid A by Radiohead |
| Down 3 from 45th to 48thFuneral by Arcade Fire |
| New entries |
|---|
| Fragile by Yes |
| Close To You by Carpenters |
| Leavers |
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| Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin |
| Nevermind by Nirvana |
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Top 50 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).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 03/04/2017 01:57 | Seab | 2,005 | 93/100 |
| ! | 06/20/2016 04:00 |  Lukeanaderdude | 238 | 91/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2015 04:07 | GthanSwagson | 15 | 97/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2011 16:29 |  Triple Seis | 1,251 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2010 02:02 | pinkfloyd! | 9 | 71/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 14.6.
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yeah I like The red hot chili peppers but not that much. Other than that, great chart!
Lots of Muse. Lots of Floyd, who are my favorite band, but even Roger Waters didn't like Atom Heart Mother.
Anyway. Great choices. Lots of ambient artsy music- do you listen to any jazz? Smashing Pumpkins' "1979", maybe?
maxxy 06/11/2009 04:37 | #4693
A lot of albums on here which I really enjoy, it's just overdone with the chili peppers, muse, and radiohead
i never understand why people think that Origin of Symmetry is Muse's best album. I sounds almost too Radiohead-me-tooish for my tastes. Not that that's a terrible thing. To summarize my thoughts on this...... interesting.
telefunker 04/27/2009 18:57 | #3772
i would add to that a surplus of muse and radiohead..
lots of good, but WAY TOO MUCH red hot chili peppers.
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