Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
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- Chart updated: 09/03/2025 19:45
- (Created: 04/11/2024 17:17).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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You can feel the spaciousness in every note through the record. An Irish band exploring the American West doesn't necessarily sound like the recipe for true emotional depth, but there's nothing *but* depth all over this record from the opening jangle of Edge's guitar on Where the Streets Have No Name to the closing soft bass on Mothers of the Disappeared. There's an earnest love in every melody, a rhythm that permeates and drives each song and even threatens to outshine Bono's soaring vocals. It really *does* make you feel like climbing the highest mountain (I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For), picking a desert rose (In God's Country), and manages to make waiting on a bed of nails something worth doing (With or Without You). The most cynical soul in the world couldn't help from being uplifted.
90+ tracks: With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No Name, Running to Stand Still, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Mothers of the Disappeared [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
90+ tracks: With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No Name, Running to Stand Still, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Mothers of the Disappeared [First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
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1987
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18,318
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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1986
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33,836
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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1983
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4,990
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[First added to this chart: 04/11/2024]
Year of Release:
1980
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27,529
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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1989
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23,007
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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1981
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2,962
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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1983
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6,416
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[First added to this chart: 09/18/2024]
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1980
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15,156
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1984
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7,948
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1985
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18,086
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 4 | 4% | |
| 1980s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2000s | 29 | 29% | |
| 2010s | 32 | 32% | |
| 2020s | 5 | 5% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Radiohead | 5 | 5% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 4 | 4% | |
| Arctic Monkeys | 4 | 4% | |
| Vampire Weekend | 3 | 3% | |
| Kanye West | 3 | 3% | |
| Arcade Fire | 3 | 3% | |
| The Strokes | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 54 from 83rd to 29thSpeaking In Tongues by Talking Heads |
| Up 48 from 94th to 46thImaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay |
| Up 47 from 98th to 51stEvery Open Eye by CHVRCHES |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 61 from 36th to 97thNevermind by Nirvana |
| Down 60 from 35th to 95thBlond by Frank Ocean |
| Down 49 from 43rd to 92ndTorches by Foster The People |
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