Discover the best music albums in history.
BestEverAlbums.com calculates a ranking from over 60,000 greatest album charts to allow visitors to look up the greatest music albums in history.
You can also view the best albums of 2024 or the best albums of the 2020s (or any year or decade since 1940).
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|  On this day, 11 years ago, Random Access Memories by Daft Punk was released. Random Access Memories is ranked third in 2013, 20th in the 2010s and 196th in the overall rankings. The top rated tracks on this album are Get Lucky, Instant Crush and Giorgio By Moroder. This album is ranked second out of albums by Daft Punk. |
Latest from the forums  |
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| Recent posts: |
| What album are you listening to right now? (Forum: Music) |
| "Thumbnail. Click to enlarge. Super Mega Ultra by Wine Lips..." |
From  Purplepash on 1 hour ago |
| Album of the day (#4898): Virgins by Tim Hecker (Forum: Music) |
| "Today's album of the day Virgins by Tim Hecker (View album | Buy this album) Year: 2013. Coun..." |
From  albummaster on 8 hours ago |
| Albums You Added To Your Collection Today (Forum: Music) |
| "Great day trawling the record shops of North Laine in brighton (UK) Thumbnail. Click to enlarge..." |
| From Johnnyo on 12 hours ago |
| Latest comments |
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Domino by Roland Kirk ( 1 comment) |
| "Andrew Hill's playing on the first six tracks is funky, soulful and inventive, a great pairing with ..." |
From  OldToad on 24 hours ago |
| The New America by Bad Religion ( 1 comment) |
| "The clean vocals on this gives it a 'punk with melody' feel about it. There's some structural variet..." |
| From mrmcrook on 24 hours ago |
| Lovedrive by Scorpions ( 11 comments) |
| "Arguably their best work they rocked really hard but added more commercial appeal which is the direc..." |
From  Brandon8 on 24 hours ago |
| More comments... |
| Latest ratings |
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| Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road |
60/100 |
From  Rhyner on 9 minutes ago |
| Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian |
80/100 |
| From Banner on 10 minutes ago |
| It'll End In Tears by This Mortal Coil |
85/100 |
| From Banner on 15 minutes ago |
| More ratings... |
Site news and announcements
| Site update |
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| From albummaster on Tuesday 14 May 2024 |
| A site update has just been deployed which has been in development (on and off) for about a year. The main change is to do with external/recognised charts attributed to sources outside of BEA. You can now click through on any of these sources to a dedicated page for each source which shows all their charts making it easier to browse through them (and from the admin page for each source, identify which charts haven't been added yet if people want to add any 'missing' year/decade/overall lists). External charts can be added to the site via custom charts and flagged for promotion from the admin page for each chart via a data correction. If a chart is from a source that's currently not on BEA, the source will be vetted/verified to ensure it meets minimum criteria before it is promoted. If you are wanting to contribute, the best way to do this is to help backfill charts from existing sources rather than add charts from new sources. (If a source isn't listed here already, it might suggest it isn't notable enough).
Currently, *all* albums on BEA receive an overall ranking, but only the top 10,000 of these are presented on the overall chart (ranks beyond 10,000 are only displayed individually in some odd corners of the site). A score of just ~2.5 pts is currently sufficient to get an album into the top 100,000 on BEA (this equates to an album appearing in one chart out of ~60,000 on the site). Overall chart positions become fairly meaningless beyond ~100,000 as one change in chart placement can have a dramatic effect in an album's ranking (some would argue the real threshold could be set a lot lower). Albums beyond 100,000 on BEA will shortly appear unranked in terms of their overall ranking to help server scalability and keep costs to a known level (this will only affect overall rankings and not ranks in year/decades as these types of chart have populations of less than 100,000). |
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