Best Albums of 1987

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Listed below are the best albums of 1987 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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1987 year summaryThe best artists of 1987 were U2, Guns N' Roses, Prince, The Smiths, Dinosaur Jr., R.E.M., Michael Jackson, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth and Def Leppard.

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The Joshua Tree

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

1,817 charts

Rank Score:

19,812

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Average Rating:

83 (2,392 votes)

Comments:

226

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

1,354 charts

Rank Score:

12,178

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Prince

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

841 charts

Rank Score:

9,220

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Overall Rank:

175

Average Rating:

81 (914 votes)

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Strangeways, Here We Come

The Smiths

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

726 charts

Rank Score:

6,350

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Overall Rank:

276

Average Rating:

81 (1,105 votes)

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You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

639 charts

Rank Score:

5,921

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Overall Rank:

307

Average Rating:

82 (718 votes)

Comments:

Document

R.E.M.

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

673 charts

Rank Score:

4,763

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Overall Rank:

376

Average Rating:

80 (902 votes)

Comments:

Bad

Michael Jackson

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

573 charts

Rank Score:

4,488

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Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

462 charts

Rank Score:

3,737

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Overall Rank:

482

Average Rating:

79 (593 votes)

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Sister

Sonic Youth

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

493 charts

Rank Score:

3,569

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Overall Rank:

506

Average Rating:

80 (625 votes)

Comments:

10.

Hysteria

Def Leppard

Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

396 charts

Rank Score:

2,994

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Overall Rank:

594

Average Rating:

72 (543 votes)

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Best Albums of 1987 composition

Artist	Albums	%

Various Artists	20	2%
The Smiths	3	0%
Big Black	3	0%
Blaine L. Reininger	3	0%
Elvis Presley	3	0%
Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic	3	0%
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / The USSR Ministry Of Culture Orchestra	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	394	39%
	234	23%
	44	4%
	33	3%
	32	3%
	27	3%
	26	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	913	91%
Yes	87	9%

Live?	Albums	%
No	977	98%
Yes	23	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	988	99%
Yes	12	1%

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