Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by albumceleste 
I tried to do a rough catalogue of my taste.
One album per artist.
At first I was going to include classical music artists (probably a third of the chart, but there were SO many albums I needed to add and in the end classical music is not album based like pop music; when you like an artist or a work you end up listening to different versions everytime you can, so it didn't make sense to add them here.)
The order is whatever came up doing it. Maybe the top and low spots are more accurate. The middle of the bell curve is a mess.
- Chart updated: 11/17/2023 02:15
- (Created: 10/30/2021 01:56).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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First listen when I was 20ish. Didn't instantly get it, but it grew.
In a silent way could be my nr1 as well. [First added to this chart: 10/17/2022]
In a silent way could be my nr1 as well. [First added to this chart: 10/17/2022]
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1959
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22,234
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Little girl blue
Pastel blues [First added to this chart: 11/14/2023]
Pastel blues [First added to this chart: 11/14/2023]
Year of Release:
1959
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2,259
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Ah um
The black saint and the sinner lady [First added to this chart: 11/14/2023]
The black saint and the sinner lady [First added to this chart: 11/14/2023]
Year of Release:
1959
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7,058
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1956
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4,954
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[First added to this chart: 11/16/2023]
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1955
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657
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[First added to this chart: 11/16/2023]
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1957
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4,166
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1960s | 23 | 23% | |
| 1970s | 27 | 27% | |
| 1980s | 15 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 3 | 3% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 7% | |
| 2020s | 1 | 1% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel | 1 | 1% | |
| Ramones | 1 | 1% | |
| U2 | 1 | 1% | |
| The Beatles | 1 | 1% | |
| Nina Simone | 1 | 1% | |
| Sumo | 1 | 1% | |
| Billie Holiday | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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55 | 55% | |
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21 | 21% | |
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9 | 9% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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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
| Biggest fallers |
|---|
| Down 1 from 15th to 16th The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths |
| Down 1 from 16th to 17th Quadrophenia by The Who |
| Down 1 from 17th to 18th Billie Holiday Sings (1950) by Billie Holiday |
| New entries |
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| Loveless by My Bloody Valentine |
| Leavers |
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| The Animals by The Animals |
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