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I adore rankings like the RYM Top albums of all time, but every music critic and online music rating community has it's own personality/biases that shape how albums are placed.

I've combined a ton of different sources to hopefully balance out the different ways a ranking can be biased.

This resulting ranking doesn't necessarily reflect what the "best" music is (that is subjective), but rather it reflects which albums are most likely to be consistently well-recieved in spite of any individual sources' tastes/biases.

My own ranking and opinion has no sway over this list. But you can see what I'd call my favorites here.

the music i've heard will have

Xeno's Aggregate Top Albums of All Time

Rank Artist Year Title Sources Score
1
 Kendrick Lamar 2015 To Pimp a Butterfly 6 413
2
 Radiohead 1997 OK Computer 8 398
3
 The Beatles 1969 Abbey Road 8 396
4
 The Beatles 1966 Revolver 8 384
5
 Pink Floyd 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon 8 373
6
 David Bowie 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 8 369
7
 Stevie Wonder 1976 Songs in the Key of Life 8 366
8
 Miles Davis 1959 Kind of Blue 8 358
9
 Marvin Gaye 1971 What’s Going On 7 356
10
 Pink Floyd 1975 Wish You Were Here 7 340
11
 The Beach Boys 1966 Pet Sounds 8 331
12
 Nas 1994 Illmatic 7 326
13
 Nirvana 1991 Nevermind 7 324
14
 Michael Jackson 1982 Thriller 7 311
15
 John Coltrane 1965 A Love Supreme 8 311
16
 The Beatles 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 8 308
17
 Kendrick Lamar 2012 good kid, m.A.A.d city 7 306
18
 Radiohead 2007 In Rainbows 7 305
19
 Jeff Buckley 1994 Grace 8 303
20
 Radiohead 2000 Kid A 8 303
21
 Bob Dylan 1975 Blood on the Tracks 8 300
22
 Wu‐Tang Clan 1993 Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers) 7 297
23
 Kanye West 2010 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 7 295
24
 Talking Heads 1980 Remain in Light 8 294
25
 Bob Dylan 1965 Highway 61 Revisited 8 294
26
 my bloody valentine 1991 Loveless 8 290
27
 The Beatles 2000 The Beatles (White Album) 7 290
28
 Fleetwood Mac 1977 Rumours 8 286
29
 The Cure 1989 Disintegration 8 285
30
 King Crimson 1969 In the Court of the Crimson King 5 284
31
 The Clash 1979 London Calling 7 277
32
 Bob Dylan 1966 Blonde on Blonde 8 275
33
 The Smiths 1986 The Queen Is Dead 8 273
34
 Stevie Wonder 1973 Innervisions 8 272
35
 Frank Ocean 2016 Blonde 5 264
36
 Madvillain 2004 Madvillainy 7 263
37
 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 Are You Experienced 7 263
38
 Prince and The Revolution 1984 Purple Rain 8 263
39
 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968 Electric Ladyland 7 263
40
 Joni Mitchell 1971 Blue 8 260
41
 Black Sabbath 1970 Paranoid 7 255
42
 The Strokes 2001 Is This It 7 247
43
 Björk 2001 Vespertine 6 245
44
 Kate Bush 1985 Hounds of Love 7 244
45
 Daft Punk 2001 Discovery 6 244
46
 Kanye West 2004 The College Dropout 7 244
47
 Television 1977 Marquee Moon 7 239
48
 Pink Floyd 1977 Animals 5 236
49
 The Doors 1967 The Doors 8 234
50
 Miles Davis 1970 Bitches Brew 8 233
51
 Led Zeppelin 1971 [Led Zeppelin IV] 6 230
52
 David Bowie 1977 Low 7 229
53
 Public Enemy 1988 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 6 228
54
 The Beatles 1965 Rubber Soul 7 227
55
 Lauryn Hill 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 6 227
56
 A Tribe Called Quest 1991 The Low End Theory 7 225
57
 Pixies 1989 Doolittle 6 224
58
 Björk 1997 Homogenic 7 222
59
 Portishead 1994 Dummy 8 221
60
 Bruce Springsteen 1975 Born to Run 7 217
61
 David Bowie 1976 Station to Station 8 215
62
 The Notorious B.I.G. 1994 Ready to Die 8 213
63
 Michael Jackson 1979 Off the Wall 7 212
64
 Fiona Apple 1999 When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ’Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won’t Matter, Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right 5 212
65
 David Bowie 1971 Hunky Dory 6 211
66
 Patti Smith 1975 Horses 5 211
67
 Nirvana 1993 In Utero 7 210
68
 Tyler, The Creator 2019 IGOR 4 207
69
 Sufjan Stevens 2005 Illinois 5 207
70
 King Crimson 1974 Red 5 207
71
 Amy Winehouse 2006 Back to Black 7 206
72
 The Stone Roses 1989 The Stone Roses 7 204
73
 Yes 1972 Close to the Edge 6 204
74
 OutKast 1998 Aquemini 7 197
75
 Nick Drake 1972 Pink Moon 7 194
76
 Joy Division 1980 Closer 6 194
77
 Death 1995 Symbolic 4 194
78
 Arcade Fire 2004 Funeral 6 193
79
 Bob Dylan 1965 Bringing It All Back Home 8 192
80
 David Bowie 2016 ★ 4 191
81
 Nine Inch Nails 1994 The Downward Spiral 7 189
82
 Sade 1992 Love Deluxe 5 189
83
 Van Morrison 1968 Astral Weeks 5 189
84
 Cocteau Twins 1990 Heaven or Las Vegas 5 189
85
 Neil Young 1970 After the Gold Rush 6 188
86
 Metallica 1986 Master of Puppets 8 187
87
 DJ Shadow 1996 Endtroducing..... 5 187
88
 Kanye West 2005 Late Registration 6 182
89
 Elliott Smith 1997 Either/Or 5 181
90
 The Rolling Stones 1969 Let It Bleed 5 180
91
 Miles Davis 1969 In a Silent Way 5 180
92
 Neutral Milk Hotel 1998 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 6 180
93
 Sex Pistols 1977 Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols 4 180
94
 Sonic Youth 1988 Daydream Nation 7 180
95
 Rage Against the Machine 1992 Rage Against the Machine 8 178
96
 Magdalena Bay 2024 Imaginal Disk 3 177
97
 The Rolling Stones 1972 Exile on Main St. 4 176
98
 Smashing Pumpkins 1993 Siamese Dream 8 176
99
 Frank Ocean 2012 channel ORANGE 6 175
100
 Massive Attack 1998 Mezzanine 7 175