Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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Top 100 (between 1960 and 2012)
- Chart updated: 06/30/2025 19:45
- (Created: 09/30/2012 20:19).
- 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 | 15 | 15% | |
| 1970s | 34 | 34% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
| Pixies | 2 | 2% | |
| Daft Punk | 2 | 2% | |
| The Replacements | 2 | 2% | |
| The Kinks | 2 | 2% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 2 | 2% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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56 | 56% | |
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29 | 29% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 72 from 95th to 23rdStreethawk: A Seduction by Destroyer |
| Up 71 from 99th to 28thNever Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols |
| Up 59 from 75th to 16thJohn Prine by John Prine |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 71 from 16th to 87thRumours by Fleetwood Mac |
| Down 59 from 34th to 93rdArthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire by The Kinks |
| Down 54 from 35th to 89thForever Changes by Love |
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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.
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).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this chart. | Show all 20 ratings for this chart.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/02/2025 09:20 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,089 | 85/100 | |
| 11/30/2023 11:41 | Moondance | 476 | 85/100 | |
| 04/20/2023 07:21 |  ssteve | 205 | 92/100 | |
| 04/19/2023 21:06 | Johnnyo | 2,584 | 80/100 | |
| 04/19/2023 08:19 |  Tamthebam | 651 | 85/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some charts can have several thousand ratings)
This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 87.1/100, a mean average of 87.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 6.4.
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melisandre 04/19/2023 09:44 | #296198
Some interesting similarities to my own chart. Sparks, Television Personalities, Magnetic Fields. Good stuff.
Decurso 11/10/2014 14:58 | #126636
Pretty different. Lots of 70s stuff, but necessarily the usual picks from that decade. Can't argue with much here.
jhuik 08/31/2013 17:26 | #84910
I have to say, you got me with your top ten. Lots in common so I should check out your slight differences from my taste. Cheers!
ProfessorSquid 03/13/2013 13:35 | #68114
Nice. I like what you ended up doing with the full 100.
ProfessorSquid 10/10/2012 20:23 | #52061
Thanks for the rating. Good chart here. I'll be interested to see what you do with the full 100.
Defago 10/06/2012 15:57 | #51832
70s all the way!
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