Top-rated albums of 1980

Listed below are the top-rated albums of 1980 as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members!
(To qualify for this chart, an album must have had at least 10 member ratings .)

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Remain In Light

Talking Heads

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,993 charts

Rank Score:

30,152

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Average Rating:

87 (2,244 votes)

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195

Closer

Joy Division

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,475 charts

Rank Score:

16,523

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Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

523 charts

Rank Score:

4,309

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Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

753 charts

Rank Score:

5,911

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Overall Rank:

302

Average Rating:

81 (1,089 votes)

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Permanent Waves

Rush

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

445 charts

Rank Score:

3,171

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559

Average Rating:

80 (609 votes)

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Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

669 charts

Rank Score:

4,917

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Overall Rank:

361

Average Rating:

80 (741 votes)

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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Soundtrack

John Williams (US)

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

227

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AC/DC

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,258 charts

Rank Score:

10,958

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Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

255 charts

Rank Score:

1,497

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190

Overall Rank:

1,186

Average Rating:

79 (368 votes)

Comments:

10.

The River

Bruce Springsteen

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

579 charts

Rank Score:

3,931

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Overall Rank:

451

Average Rating:

79 (846 votes)

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The average rating is a Bayesian average, calculated as follows:
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV

where:
av = mean average rating an album has currently received.
n = number of ratings an album has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an album to appear in the 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating for an album (currently 72/100).

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