Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by sullyt 
- Chart updated: 08/17/2017 09:45
- (Created: 06/19/2012 01:44).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 12 | 12% | |
| 1970s | 5 | 5% | |
| 1980s | 7 | 7% | |
| 1990s | 24 | 24% | |
| 2000s | 33 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Radiohead | 7 | 7% | |
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 5% | |
| Gillian Welch | 5 | 5% | |
| Swans | 4 | 4% | |
| The Smiths | 4 | 4% | |
| The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
| The National | 4 | 4% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 19 from 85th to 66thThe Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse |
| Up 10 from 65th to 55thChildren Of God by Swans |
| Up 8 from 84th to 76thNevermind by Nirvana |
| Biggest fallers |
|---|
| Down 25 from 21st to 46thIn The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) by King Crimson |
| Down 16 from 43rd to 59thHigh Violet by The National |
| Down 15 from 27th to 42ndÁgætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós |
| New entries |
|---|
| Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life |
| Damn. by Kendrick Lamar |
| The Glowing Man by Swans |
| Leavers |
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| Carry Me To Home by The Deadly Gentlemen |
| Scar Sighted by Leviathan (Jef Whitehead) |
| Burst Apart by The Antlers |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
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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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| ! | 11/29/2016 02:50 | Seab | 2,005 | 93/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2016 00:41 | YikYak | 193 | 92/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2016 16:07 | Thad | 151 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2016 15:52 | kickerofelves | 13 | 93/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2016 11:33 | 441 | 87/100 |
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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 86.4/100, a mean average of 86.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.6/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 8.4.
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Great chart!
Great chart! Ranking Kid A as Radiohead's fifth best is ballsy. I can always respect ITAOTS at number one. I've also been seeing Bee Thousand in a lot of top tens recently, which is cool. It's a great album that seems to get little recognition.
I notice a lot of hands in your top ten. May I recommend Get to Heaven by Everything Everything and So The Flies Don't Come by Milo... because those albums also have hands. Seriously though great chart :)
Love the chart man! I'll have to give some of the albums on here that I haven't heard a listen.
Looks just like the chart I would have if I gave myself the time to listen to enough music.
Nice chart, I like it.
good chart
FIRST!
Compilations seems like cheating, but I do like Bob Dylan.
This is a work of art ;)
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