Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by newbands1 
- Chart updated: 07/11/2015 14:15
- (Created: 05/27/2012 15:03).
- 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 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1970s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 37 | 37% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 17% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 1% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 1 | 1% | |
| At The Drive-In | 1 | 1% | |
| King Crimson | 1 | 1% | |
| Animal Collective | 1 | 1% | |
| Can | 1 | 1% | |
| The Modern Lovers | 1 | 1% | |
| Boards Of Canada | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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58 | 58% | |
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28 | 28% | |
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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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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| New entries |
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| The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| Leavers |
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| Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Featuring Nico by Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Featuring Nico |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| 04/16/2025 15:52 | DrewHamster | 315 | 79/100 | |
| 03/24/2025 09:59 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 01/15/2025 18:01 | Exist-en-ciel | 156 | 97/100 | |
| 11/02/2016 20:47 | Seab | 2,001 | 93/100 | |
| 08/15/2016 04:47 |  CA Dreamin | 134 | 88/100 |
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This chart is rated in the top 6% of all charts on BestEverAlbums.com. This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 88.6/100, a mean average of 89.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 7.8.
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grohly 05/02/2016 10:20 | #164986
Awesome seeing the underrated Graduation in there!
It's great to see a list with Pinkerton at #1.
Mattdup279 07/08/2015 20:05 | #145343
Awesome chart, love your top picks
louisjwyatt 07/01/2015 03:54 | #144897
As much as I dislike Aeroplane and Arcade Fire, Pinkerton at No. 1 is just undeniably awesome, especially with Spiderland and Loveless also in the top 10. Misfits just seal the deal. Well job friend! Lot's of great stuff here and plenty of variety.
decemberhotel 06/16/2015 18:26 | #143952
great list! Disagree with Weezer being number 1 though:)
HoldenM 06/16/2015 08:34 | #143914
Still such an awesome chart.
Mercury 11/21/2014 04:58 | #127581
just dropping in to say hi in public.also i still love this. american fb were so amazing werent they
Martinborras 10/13/2014 00:11 | #124262
Nice chart! Good top ten, with many classics. I like the predominance of the 90' in the chart, as you did it of excellents album that in a few years will be classics, like "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" and "OK Computer". However, there are some albums i find not interesting, and you only included 8 albums of the 60', so maybe you are losing some great albums. Overall, good chart!
Nice to see Pinkerton at #1!
pa 07/05/2014 10:50 | #116062
I dig your top ten!
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