Year by year stats
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1963: 5 (2 albums)
Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith
With The Beatles - Beatles
1965: 5 (2)
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Rubber Soul - Beatles
1959: 5 (1)
The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald
1966: 4.75 (4)
Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel
Black Monk Time - The Monks
Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders
1969: 4.6 (10)
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone
Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes
1971: 4.58 (12)
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
The Yes Album - Yes
Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Imagine - John Lennon
Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
Madman Across The Water - Elton John
Fragile - Yes
Who's Next - The Who
L.A. Woman - The Doors
There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone
Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton
American Pie - Don McLean
1976: 4.57 (7)
Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
2112 - Rush
Ramones - Ramones
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre
1970: 4.5 (8)
Morrison Hotel - The Doors
Moondance - Van Morrison
Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple
Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Close To You - Carpenters
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit
1972: 4.5 (4)
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
The World is a Ghetto - War
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Transformer - Lou Reed
2006: 4.5 (2)
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera
1977: 4.42 (12)
Zombie - Fela Kuti
Heroes - David Bowie
Aja - Steely Dan
Hard Again - Muddy Waters
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Heavy Weather - Weather Report
The Clash - The Clash
Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury
The Idiot - Iggy Pop
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
1956: 4.33 (3)
Ellington at Newport - Duke Ellington
Songs For Swingin' Lovers! - Frank Sinatra
The Wildest! - Louis Prima
1962: 4.33 (3)
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles
Jazz Samba - Stan Getz
1984: 4.33 (3)
Private Dancer - Tina Turner
Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen
Let It Be - The Replacements
1985: 4.33 (3)
Meat Is Murder - The Smiths
Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
1973: 4.29 (7)
The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
3 + 3 - The Isley Brothers
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
Berlin - Lou Reed
1975: 4.22 (9)
A Night At The Opera - Queen
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Young Americans - David Bowie
Mothership Connection - Parliament
There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Horses - Patti Smith
1988: 4.2 (5)
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Green - R.E.M.
2005: 4.2 (5)
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Coles Corner - Richard Hawley
Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
Be - Common
1957: 4.17 (6)
Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis
Here's Little Richard - Little Richard
Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk
Palo Congo - Sabu
This Is Fats Domino - Fats Domino
1986: 4 (11)
I Against I - Bad Brains
Planet Rock: The Album - Afrika Bambaataa
Graceland - Paul Simon
The Last Of The True Believers - Nanci Griffith
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Master Of Puppets - Metallica
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Skylarking - XTC
Infected - The The
Guitar Town - Steve Earle
So - Peter Gabriel
1974: 4 (10)
Bad Company - Bad Company
Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell
Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
No Other - Gene Clark
Sheet Music - 10cc
1968: 4 (8)
Traffic - Traffic
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Music From Big Pink - The Band
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Scott 2 - Scott Walker
At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin
Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer
1978: 4 (8)
Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks
Stardust - Willie Nelson
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts - The Adverts
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
The Cars - The Cars
Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen - The Residents
Siembra - Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
1990: 4 (7)
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
Ritual De Lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction
Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Violator - Depeche Mode
Bossanova - Pixies
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest
Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys
1991: 4 (4)
Nevermind - Nirvana
Metallica - Metallica
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo - MC Solaar
Arise - Sepultura
1982: 4 (2)
Rio - Duran Duran
Pornography - The Cure
1998: 4 (2)
Celebrity Skin - Hole
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
1955: 4 (1)
In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra
1961: 4 (1)
Sunday At The Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio
1964: 4 (1)
Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz
1967: 3.89 (9)
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes
Disraeli Gears - Cream
Headquarters - The Monkees
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks
Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
1979: 3.83 (6)
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Quiet Life - Japan
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan
Broken English - Marianne Faithfull
The Specials - The Specials
London Calling - The Clash
2000: 3.83 (6)
Our Aim Is To Satisfy - Red Snapper
Stankonia - OutKast
Kid A - Radiohead
Parachutes - Coldplay
All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
1995: 3.67 (6)
Elastica - Elastica
Different Class - Pulp
Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon
Leftism - Leftfield
(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
1983: 3.67 (3)
Colour By Numbers - Culture Club
Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
1989: 3.57 (7)
Pump - Aerosmith
L'Eau Rouge - The Young Gods
Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
90 - 808 State
Doolittle - Pixies
Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3
1997: 3.5 (10)
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
Either Or - Elliott Smith
Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams
In It For The Money - Supergrass
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
Tellin’ Stories - The Charlatans
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
New Forms - Roni Size
The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
1980: 3.5 (8)
Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
Back In Black - AC/DC
Crocodiles - Echo And The Bunnymen
British Steel - Judas Priest
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Signing Off - UB40
Kilimanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes
Group Sex - Circle Jerks
1981: 3.5 (6)
Juju - Siouxsie And The Banshees
Mask - Bauhaus
Moving Pictures - Rush
Wild Gift - X
Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten
Dare! - The Human League
2002: 3.5 (4)
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Sunshine Hit Me - The Bees
Justified - Justin Timberlake
2008: 3.5 (2)
Dear Science - TV On The Radio
All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot
2015: 3.5 (2)
25 - Adele
Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues
2017: 3.5 (2)
Melodrama - Lorde
american dream - LCD Soundsystem
2018: 3.5 (2)
Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
Chris - Christine and the Queens
1987: 3.44 (9)
Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Bad - Michael Jackson
The Joshua Tree - U2
Document - R.E.M.
Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths
Warehouse: Songs And Stories - Hüsker Dü
Darklands - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers
Floodland - Sisters Of Mercy
1992: 3.33 (6)
Automatic For The People - R.E.M.
Dry - PJ Harvey
The Predator - Ice Cube
Slanted And Enchanted - Pavement
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin
Devotional Songs - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1958: 3.33 (3)
The Atomic Mr Basie - Count Basie & His Orchestra
Lady In Satin - Billie Holiday
Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1999: 3.33 (3)
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
Apple Venus Volume 1 - XTC
Kenza - Khaled
2004: 3.18 (11)
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
American Idiot - Green Day
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine - Cee Lo Green
A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
You Are The Quarry - Morrissey
Smile - Brian Wilson
The College Dropout - Kanye West
Hot Fuss - The Killers
Funeral - Arcade Fire
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned - Liars
Heroes to Zeros - The Beta Band
1994: 3 (8)
Dummy - Portishead
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Illmatic - Nas
Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
G. Love And Special Sauce - G. Love & Special Sauce
Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.
Parklife - Blur
Protection - Massive Attack
1993: 3 (6)
In Utero - Nirvana
New Wave - The Auteurs
Strange Cargo III - William Orbit
Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby - Girls Against Boys
2014: 3 (2)
Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs
LP1 - FKA twigs
2012: 3 (1)
Django Django - Django Django
2013: 3 (1)
The Bones Of What You Believe - CHVRCHES
2021: 3 (1)
Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan
2001: 2.8 (5)
Hot Shots II - The Beta Band
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Gold - Ryan Adams
Is This It - The Strokes
Rings Around The World - Super Furry Animals
1996: 2.75 (4)
Being There - Wilco
Now I Got Worry - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Logical Progression - LTJ Bukem
Oedipus Schmoedipus - Barry Adamson
2003: 2.33 (3)
Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
Feast of Wire - Calexico
So Much For The City - The Thrills