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Album of the Year — Best Albums by User Score

From https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/user-highest-rated/all/

Highest-rated albums of all time according to Album of the Year user scores. Top 200 captured.

80 / 200 done · 40%

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1

To Pimp a Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

2015
2

Songs in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder

1976
3

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

2012
4

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

1975
5

Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

2000
6

In Rainbows

Radiohead

2007
7

OK Computer

Radiohead

1997
8

Vespertine

Björk

2001
9

Illmatic

Nas

1994
10

Madvillainy

Madvillain

2004
11

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

1971
12

Abbey Road

The Beatles

1969
13

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

1963
14

Grace

Jeff Buckley

1994
15

In the Court of the Crimson King

King Crimson

1969
16

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

1993
17

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

1972
18

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

1973
19

Deathconsciousness

Have a Nice Life

2008
20

The College Dropout

Kanye West

2004
21

Homogenic

Björk

1997
22

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

1998
23

When the Pawn...

Fiona Apple

1999
24

Love Deluxe

Sade

1992
25

The Glow Pt. 2

The Microphones

2001
26

Discovery

Daft Punk

2001
27

Purple Rain

Prince and The Revolution

1984
28

Electric Ladyland

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

1968
29

Animals

Pink Floyd

1977
30

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2005
31

Kid A

Radiohead

2000
32

Toxicity

System of a Down

2001
33

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

1959
34

Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P.

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

1999
35

IGOR

Tyler, The Creator

2019
36

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

1991
37

The Infamous

Mobb Deep

1995
38

Thriller

Michael Jackson

1982
39

Disintegration

The Cure

1989
40

Ants From Up There

Black Country, New Road

2022
41

Imaginal Disk

Magdalena Bay

2024
42

LONG SEASON

Fishmans

1996
43

Piñata

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

2014
44

Clube da Esquina

Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges

1972
45

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

1965
46

Black on Both Sides

Mos Def

1999
47

Aquemini

OutKast

1998
48

Red

King Crimson

1974
49

Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)

Car Seat Headrest

2018
50

★ [Blackstar]

David Bowie

2016
51

The Forever Story

JID

2022
52

Heaven or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

1990
53

Late Registration

Kanye West

2005
54

Symbolic

Death

1995
55

Dummy

Portishead

1994
56

Atrocity Exhibition

Danny Brown

2016
57

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

1970
58

The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails

1994
59

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

1970
60

F♯ A♯ ∞

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

1997
61

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

1970
62

Nevermind

Nirvana

1991
63

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

1973
64

LP! (Offline Version)

JPEGMAFIA

2021
65

Voodoo

D'Angelo

2000
66

The Glowing Man

Swans

2016
67

Construção

Chico Buarque

1971
68

Either/Or

Elliott Smith

1997
69

Metaphorical Music

Nujabes

2003
70

Hounds of Love

Kate Bush

1985
71

Remain in Light

Talking Heads

1980
72

Blonde

Frank Ocean

2016
73

A Crow Looked at Me

Mount Eerie

2017
74

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

2010
75

Off the Wall

Michael Jackson

1979
76

Karma

Pharoah Sanders

1969
77

solace

Earl Sweatshirt

2015
78

Donuts

J Dilla

2006
79

Ys

Joanna Newsom

2006
80

The Winter Ray

Natural Snow Buildings
81

In Utero

Nirvana

1993
82

Revolver

The Beatles

1966
83

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

1965
84

The Sound of Perseverance

Death

1998
85

Bocanada

Gustavo Cerati

1999
86

Liquid Swords

Genius / GZA

1995
87

UNEVEN COMPROMISE

Lil Ugly Mane

2012
88

Master of Puppets

Metallica

1986
89

Exmilitary

Death Grips

2011
90

We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service

A Tribe Called Quest

2016
91

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens

2015
92

The Velvet Rope

Janet

1997
93

For You

山下達郎 [Tatsuro Yamashita]

1982
94

Mezzanine

Massive Attack

1998
95

Station to Station

David Bowie

1976
96

Midnight Marauders

A Tribe Called Quest

1993
97

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis

1969
98

Be

Common

2005
99

Soundtracks for the Blind

Swans

1996
100

Blackwater Park

Opeth

2001
101

Ride the Lightning

Metallica

1984
102

Sobrevivendo no Inferno

Racionais MC's

1997
103

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

2000
104

THE RAINBOW GOBLINS

高中正義 [Masayoshi Takanaka]

1981
105

Blue

Joni Mitchell

1971
106

Blood on the Tracks

Bob Dylan

1975
107

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

Little Simz

2021
108

Pink Moon

Nick Drake

1972
109

Have One On Me

Joanna Newsom

2010
110

Ray of Light

Madonna

1998
111

To Be Kind

Swans

2014
112

Ready to Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1994
113

Titanic Rising

Weyes Blood

2019
114

Modal Soul

Nujabes

2005
115

Il était une forêt...

Gris

2007
116

El jardín de los presentes

Invisible

1976
117

...Like Clockwork

Queens of the Stone Age

2013
118

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

1971
119

loveless

my bloody valentine

1991
120

Blonde on Blonde

Bob Dylan

1966
121

MM..FOOD

MF DOOM

2004
122

Acabou Chorare

Novos Baianos

1972
123

Fôrça bruta

Jorge Ben

1970
124

A Tábua de Esmeralda

Jorge Ben

1974
125

Close to the Edge

Yes

1972
126

The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

Natural Snow Buildings

2006
127

Moment of Truth

Gang Starr

1998
128

The Magnolia Electric Co.

Songs: Ohia

2003
129

The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

2006
130

Marquee Moon

Television

1977
131

Vigilante

Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe

1983
132

The Seer

Swans

2012
133

Velocity : Design : Comfort.

Sweet Trip

2003
134

From Mars to Sirius

Gojira

2005
135

Things Fall Apart

The Roots

1999
136

Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

1996
137

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2000
138

Diamond Life

Sade

1984
139

宇宙日本世田谷 [Uchu Nippon Setagaya]

Fishmans

1997
140

flood

Boris

2000
141

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

1969
142

勝訴ストリップ [Winning Strip]

椎名林檎 [Ringo Sheena]

2000
143

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles

1967
144

Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine

1992
145

Korova Milky Bar

Myslovitz

2002
146

Mount Eerie

The Microphones

2003
147

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

1976
148

Songs for the Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age

2002
149

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye

1973
150

Violator

Depeche Mode

1990
151

Ghost Reveries

Opeth

2005
152

wetdream

Willy Rodriguez

2023
153

Low

David Bowie

1977
154

0

青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba]

2013
155

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

1998
156

This Is Happening

LCD Soundsystem

2010
157

Black Moses

Isaac Hayes

1971
158

Jane Doe

Converge

2001
159

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

1982
160

Souvlaki

Slowdive

1993
161

The Fire This Time

Various Artists

2002
162

The Beatles

The Beatles

1968
163

Siamese Dream

Smashing Pumpkins

1993
164

La ley innata

Extremoduro

2008
165

The Stranger

Billy Joel

1977
166

Dopethrone

Electric Wizard

2000
167

Shadow Kingdom

Natural Snow Buildings

2009
168

Stankonia

OutKast

2000
169

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

1995
170

Spiderland

Slint

1991
171

Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem

2007
172

undun

The Roots

2011
173

The Money Store

Death Grips

2012
174

Post

Björk

1995
175

Lateralus

TOOL

2001
176

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Lana Del Rey

2019
177

De Todas las Flores

Natalia Lafourcade

2022
178

アダンの風 [Windswept Adan]

青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba]

2020
179

Black Messiah

D'Angelo and The Vanguard

2014
180

Muerte

Canserbero

2012
181

The Lonesome Crowded West

Modest Mouse

1997
182

Jenny Death

Death Grips

2015
183

Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith

1995
184

Promise

Sade

1985
185

Melodrama

Lorde

2017
186

Ágætis byrjun

Sigur Rós

1999
187

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

Raekwon

1995
188

Nada Como um Dia Após o Outro Dia

Racionais MC's

2002
189

Leaves Turn Inside You

Unwound

2001
190

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

1992
191

Frances the Mute

The Mars Volta

2005
192

A Moon Shaped Pool

Radiohead

2016
193

Songs About Leaving

Carissa's Wierd

2002
194

Timely!!

杏里 [Anri]

1983
195

Wild Is the Wind

Nina Simone

1966
196

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

2009
197

Pieces of a Man

Gil Scott-Heron

1971
198

ATLiens

OutKast

1996
199

Let My Children Hear Music

Charles Mingus

1972
200

Bottomless Pit

Death Grips

2016