Greatest 100 Albums of All Time by The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums with NME (2006)

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom. In 2004 the book became an amalgamation of two earlier Guinness publications, originally known as British Hit Singles and British Hit Albums. The publication of this amalgamation ceased in 2006. These are their best albums of all time. The survey was put together by the book of British Hit Singles and Albums and NME.com to celebrate 50 years of the Official UK Album Chart, with votes coming in from the around the world. (N.B. The albums in this chart are not just restricted to those from the UK.)
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11.

The Joshua Tree 

 U2

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Year of Release:

1987

Appears in:

1,817 charts

Rank Score:

19,831

Rank in 1987:

1

Rank in 1980s:

6

Overall Rank:

52

Average Rating:

 83 (2,391 votes)

Comments:

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12.

London Calling 

 The Clash

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Year of Release:

1979

Appears in:

2,756 charts

Rank Score:

36,155

Rank in 1979:

1

Rank in 1970s:

5

Overall Rank:

20

Average Rating:

 87 (3,085 votes)

Comments:

256

13.

The Beatles (The White Album) 

 The Beatles

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Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

2,868 charts

Rank Score:

43,251

Rank in 1968:

1

Rank in 1960s:

6

Overall Rank:

13

Average Rating:

 89 (3,733 votes)

Comments:

337

14.

Abbey Road 

 The Beatles

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Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,632 charts

Rank Score:

65,462

Rank in 1969:

1

Rank in 1960s:

1

Overall Rank:

3

Average Rating:

 92 (4,512 votes)

Comments:

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15.

Up The Bracket 

 The Libertines

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

459 charts

Rank Score:

3,245

Rank in 2002:

11

Rank in 2000s:

90

Overall Rank:

554

Average Rating:

 77 (668 votes)

Comments:

35

16.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols 

 Sex Pistols

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Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

1,343 charts

Rank Score:

11,799

Rank in 1977:

5

Rank in 1970s:

34

Overall Rank:

125

Average Rating:

 80 (1,819 votes)

Comments:

145

17.

Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) 

 Led Zeppelin

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Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

3,070 charts

Rank Score:

44,286

Rank in 1971:

1

Rank in 1970s:

4

Overall Rank:

12

Average Rating:

 90 (3,903 votes)

Comments:

300

18.

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 

 David Bowie

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Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

2,936 charts

Rank Score:

50,152

Rank in 1972:

1

Rank in 1970s:

3

Overall Rank:

9

Average Rating:

 90 (3,450 votes)

Comments:

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19.

A Night At The Opera 

 Queen

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Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

1,384 charts

Rank Score:

13,340

Rank in 1975:

5

Rank in 1970s:

27

Overall Rank:

101

Average Rating:

 83 (1,883 votes)

Comments:

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Is This It 

 The Strokes

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

2,409 charts

Rank Score:

33,082

Rank in 2001:

1

Rank in 2000s:

4

Overall Rank:

24

Average Rating:

 86 (2,958 votes)

Comments:

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Greatest 100 Albums of All Time composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	12	12%
1970s	30	30%
1980s	14	14%
1990s	23	23%
2000s	21	21%
2010s	0	0%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
The Beatles	5	5%
Radiohead	3	3%
Queen	3	3%
Coldplay	3	3%
Pink Floyd	3	3%
Led Zeppelin	3	3%
David Bowie	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	61	61%
	29	29%
	4	4%
	2	2%
	2	2%
	1	1%
	1	1%

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[The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums with NME was founded in 1977 and disbanded in 2006.]

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90/100	06/04/2021 01:49	Skroskznik	94	92/100
55/100	12/11/2020 07:56	pjohnsongolf	273	89/100
80/100	11/24/2020 21:53	sampins	17	84/100
5/100	10/18/2020 08:11	Steppenwolf666	89	89/100
45/100	09/25/2020 03:32	ChadMiles	29	64/100

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From Steppenwolf666 10/18/2020 08:15

2 albums by Oasis in the top 5, and 2 albums by The Libertines = irrelevant chart. People thinking about what was popular at the time, and forgetting everything else, does not make a worthwhile chart of any significance.

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From MM1Barker 07/29/2020 16:42

I wpuld say that Morning Glory is the best Oasis album, so I can't seem to think why Definitly Maybe is even close to the top with beautfully created albums like Nevermind and Darkside of the moon are below it. Apart from this I think it gives a good representation of the Greatest 100 albums.

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80/100

From Goliath 07/09/2020 17:43

Number 1 should definitely notbe and there are some early 2000's albums here that were current at the time of the vote and should not be there. Exactly half of these albums are in the BEA over-all chart so it's not as bad as some voted charts I've seen.

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50/100

From Boltzmann 03/15/2020 18:31

This is a joke, right?

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From Johnnyo 04/18/2019 06:55

Won't rate it as it's not a members chart but Oasis no. 1! That's a really no no for me. After seeing that, I completely lost interest.

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100/100

From YikYak 08/06/2016 16:34

42 albums and 30 artists! I can't really hate this at all

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60/100

From DeusExMackia 03/23/2016 18:40

A lot of the right albums here, but all in the wrong order. And far, far too much Beatles in the upper end.

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10/100

From mianfei 02/24/2016 06:24

This list has the worst aspects of popular lists by people who don't know.

Even if strong public radio networks allow the people of Britain to know more "cutting-edge" music than those of cloistered suburbs in Australia and Red America, this tendency has lessened since hardcore and thrash metal emerged.

Consequently, the people who voted on this are not likely to have known most of the major musical trends of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s as this was being written. They may also nto be aware of what was going on in the 1960s, despite Piero Scaruffi and David Keenan having written their essential works prior to this list's issuing.

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From boyd94 01/22/2016 18:57

Definitely Maybe at the top? Seriously?

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90/100

From luis721 09/27/2015 00:38

Good chart.

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