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 2025 or the best albums of the 2020s (or any year or decade since 1940).
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| Virgin by Lorde is ranked 46th in the best albums of 2025 (Released: 2025-06-27). |
| Album anniversary | |
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|  On this day, 20 years ago, Illinois by Sufjan Stevens was released. Illinois is ranked first in 2005, fifth in the 2000s and 43rd in the overall rankings. The top rated tracks on this album are Casimir Pulaski Day, Chicago and Come On! Feel The Illinoise! (Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition – Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream). This album is ranked first out of albums by Sufjan Stevens. |
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Never Enough by Turnstile ( 1 comment) |
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| Impermanence by Yotam Ben-Or |
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Site news and announcements
| June 2025 site update |
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From  albummaster on Tuesday 17 June 2025 |
| A new site update has just been pushed live. Quite a few layout changes have been made across the site (including on the forums and data admin pages). This is the start of a project to refresh the site in time for its 20th anniversary, so quite a few further changes can be expected over the next few months to many areas of the site.
Separately, from July 1st 2025, recognised charts will be worth three points per entry (instead of five). Since introducing an extra points bounty for these charts, BEA now has ~3,000 recognised charts which help to add weight to the aggregate charts & attract visitors for people seeking these types of chart out, but it's now time to balance out the reward more evenly versus other aspects of the site. Previous recognised charts that have been added will retain their five points per entry (including those charts not yet promoted), but charts created after this date will be awarded three points per entry (equating to 300 points for a 100 entry chart). Enjoy the site & more soon. AM |
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