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1982: 3.67 (6 albums)

1999 - Prince

Rio - Duran Duran

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Pornography - The Cure

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

2006: 3.5 (2)

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

1984: 3.38 (8)

Diamond Life - Sade

Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

Treasure - Cocteau Twins

Purple Rain - Prince

1984 - Van Halen

Let It Be - The Replacements

Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

1992: 3.29 (7)

The Predator - Ice Cube

Dirt - Alice In Chains

Copper Blue - Sugar

Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... - Arrested Development

Devotional Songs - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Dry - PJ Harvey

1987: 3.25 (8)

Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode

Bad - Michael Jackson

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses

Sister - Sonic Youth

Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby - Terence Trent D'Arby

Calenture - The Triffids

Opus Dei - Laibach

1993: 3.25 (4)

In Utero - Nirvana

New Wave - The Auteurs

Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs

Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur

1980: 3.14 (7)

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

British Steel - Judas Priest

Remain In Light - Talking Heads

Closer - Joy Division

Group Sex - Circle Jerks

Back In Black - AC/DC

Signing Off - UB40

1981: 3.14 (7)

Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

Moving Pictures - Rush

Damaged - Black Flag

Beauty And The Beat - The Go-Go's

Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs

Wild Gift - X

Fire Of Love - The Gun Club

1985: 3.14 (7)

Rum Sodomy & The Lash - The Pogues

Meat Is Murder - The Smiths

Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Low-Life - New Order

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

Hunting High And Low - a-ha

1977: 3.13 (16)

Zombie - Fela Kuti

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols

Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

Heroes - David Bowie

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello

Talking Heads 77 - Talking Heads

Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers

The Stranger - Billy Joel

Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

Aja - Steely Dan

Marquee Moon - Television

Pink Flag - Wire

Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

1988: 3.11 (9)

Bummed - Happy Mondays

Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues

Vivid - Living Colour

Truth And Soul - Fishbone

Green - R.E.M.

...And Justice For All - Metallica

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

1970: 3.07 (15)

Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple

Morrison Hotel - The Doors

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit

Fun House - The Stooges

Live At Leeds - The Who

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens

Moondance - Van Morrison

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

1996: 3 (10)

Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow

Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers

Odelay - Beck

Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld

The Score - Fugees

Tidal - Fiona Apple

Now I Got Worry - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

1977 - Ash

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian

Oedipus Schmoedipus - Barry Adamson

2002: 3 (5)

American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

Sunshine Hit Me - The Bees

Highly Evolved - The Vines

2011: 3 (1)

21 - Adele

2013: 3 (1)

The Next Day - David Bowie

1979: 2.92 (12)

London Calling - The Clash

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

Street Life - The Crusaders

Quiet Life - Japan

Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

The Specials - The Specials

The Undertones - The Undertones

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

Live At The Witch Trials - The Fall

Risque - CHIC

1975: 2.9 (10)

Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan

There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

Tonight's The Night - Neil Young

A Night At The Opera - Queen

Young Americans - David Bowie

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

Mothership Connection - Parliament

Another Green World - Brian Eno

Pieces Of The Sky - Emmylou Harris

1978: 2.88 (16)

Stardust - Willie Nelson

The Man Machine - Kraftwerk

One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic

Public Image: First Issue - Public Image Ltd.

Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star

Eternally Yours - The Saints

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

Ambient 1/Music For Airports - Brian Eno

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts - The Adverts

Van Halen - Van Halen

Honky Tonk Masquerade - Joe Ely

C'est Chic - CHIC

The Scream - Siouxsie And The Banshees

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle - Throbbing Gristle

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen - The Residents

1986: 2.88 (8)

Infected - The The

Rapture - Anita Baker

Guitar Town - Steve Earle

The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk

I Against I - Bad Brains

So - Peter Gabriel

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses

1991: 2.88 (8)

Peggy Suicide - Julian Cope

Nevermind - Nirvana

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Blue Lines - Massive Attack

The White Room - The KLF

O.G. Original Gangster - Ice T

Rising Above Bedlam - Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

1997: 2.88 (8)

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down - The Dandy Warhols

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Blur - Blur

OK Computer - Radiohead

Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney

Either Or - Elliott Smith

The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy

Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott

1994: 2.86 (14)

Illmatic - Nas

G. Love And Special Sauce - G. Love & Special Sauce

Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Live Through This - Hole

The Sun Rises In The East - Jeru The Damaja

Parklife - Blur

Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Touré

Smash - The Offspring

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Superunknown - Soundgarden

Ill Communication - Beastie Boys

Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.

Crazysexycool - TLC

Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu

1983: 2.83 (6)

She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Pyromania - Def Leppard

Out of Step - Minor Threat

Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

War - U2

Back to Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks

1973: 2.82 (11)

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

Countdown To Ecstasy - Steely Dan

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Space Ritual - Hawkwind

Berlin - Lou Reed

Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Future Days - Can

1990: 2.8 (5)

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

Rust In Peace - Megadeth

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube

En-Tact - The Shamen

1972: 2.78 (18)

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

Home Is Where The Music Is - Hugh Masekela

All Directions - The Temptations

Sail Away - Randy Newman

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Close To The Edge - Yes

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan

The World is a Ghetto - War

Eagles - Eagles

Clube Da Esquina - Milton Nascimento

Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1989: 2.75 (8)

3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

90 - 808 State

Disintegration - The Cure

The Real Thing - Faith No More

Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson

The Healer - John Lee Hooker

Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry

1995: 2.75 (8)

Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti

Different Class - Pulp

Timeless - Goldie

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Me Against The World - 2Pac

Scream, Dracula, Scream - Rocket From The Crypt

1956: 2.75 (4)

Ellington at Newport - Duke Ellington

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! - Frank Sinatra

The Wildest! - Louis Prima

1959: 2.75 (4)

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs - Marty Robbins

Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

The Gershwin Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald

The Genius Of Ray Charles - Ray Charles

1976: 2.67 (9)

Ramones - Ramones

Hejira - Joni Mitchell

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder

Station To Station - David Bowie

2112 - Rush

Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

Music From The Penguin Cafe - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton

1965: 2.67 (6)

I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail - Buck Owens

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch

The Beach Boys Today! - The Beach Boys

My Generation - The Who

Rubber Soul - Beatles

1969: 2.63 (24)

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service

Stand! - Sly & The Family Stone

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) - The Kinks

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield

In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

Liege And Lief - Fairport Convention

Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

The Band - The Band

Abbey Road - Beatles

Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Tommy - The Who

In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson

Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin

Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Scott 4 - Scott Walker

Basket of Light - Pentangle

Live / Dead - Grateful Dead

Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Stooges - The Stooges

Elephant Mountain - The Youngbloods

1974: 2.62 (13)

On The Beach - Neil Young

Sheet Music - 10cc

Queen II - Queen

Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Winter In America - Gil Scott-Heron

Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno

Autobahn - Kraftwerk

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard Thompson

Kimono My House - Sparks

Country Life - Roxy Music

Phaedra - Tangerine Dream

No Other - Gene Clark

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis

2010: 2.6 (5)

High Violet - The National

The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe

Brothers - The Black Keys

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

Teen Dream - Beach House

1968: 2.58 (12)

The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies

The White Album - Beatles

Lady Soul - Aretha Franklin

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds

Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes

Music From Big Pink - The Band

Scott 2 - Scott Walker

Traffic - Traffic

S.F. Sorrow - The Pretty Things

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces

White Light / White Heat - The Velvet Underground

1971: 2.56 (18)

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

John Prine - John Prine

Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Pearl - Janis Joplin

Tago Mago - Can

Tapestry - Carole King

At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band

Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

American Pie - Don McLean

Live! - Fela Kuti

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

The Yes Album - Yes

Madman Across The Water - Elton John

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse - Faces

Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Trafalgar - Bee Gees

2004: 2.56 (9)

Rejoicing In The Hands - Devendra Banhart

Medúlla - Björk

You Are The Quarry - Morrissey

American Idiot - Green Day

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Fly Or Die - N.E.R.D

A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

1966: 2.5 (10)

Face to Face - The Kinks

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - The 13th Floor Elevators

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel

Da Capo - Love

Aftermath - The Rolling Stones

Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders

Freak Out! - The Mothers Of Invention

Fred Neil - Fred Neil

Black Monk Time - The Monks

1998: 2.5 (4)

You've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim

Ray Of Light - Madonna

Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

1962: 2.5 (2)

Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

Jazz Samba - Stan Getz

2017: 2.5 (2)

Melodrama - Lorde

american dream - LCD Soundsystem

2020: 2.5 (2)

Untitled (Black Is) - SAULT

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

1967: 2.4 (15)

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground

The Doors - The Doors

Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix

Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin

Forever Changes - Love

Goodbye And Hello - Tim Buckley

Headquarters - The Monkees

Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks

2000: 2.36 (11)

Virgin Suicides - Air

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

Stankonia - OutKast

Kid A - Radiohead

Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

The Hour Of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy

Our Aim Is To Satisfy - Red Snapper

Nixon - Lambchop

Parachutes - Coldplay

2009: 2.33 (6)

xx - The xx

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors

Two Dancers - Wild Beasts

Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

2005: 2.33 (3)

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

Guero - Beck

1963: 2.25 (8)

James Brown Live At The Apollo - James Brown

Night Life - Ray Price

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various Artists

With The Beatles - Beatles

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus

Live At The Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith

2003: 2.25 (4)

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent

Youth And Young Manhood - Kings of Leon

Hail To the Thief - Radiohead

Frank - Amy Winehouse

2008: 2.25 (4)

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Dear Science - TV On The Radio

1957: 2.2 (5)

The Sounds Of India - Ravi Shankar

Palo Congo - Sabu

Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & The Crickets

This Is Fats Domino - Fats Domino

Birth Of The Cool - Miles Davis

1999: 2.17 (6)

Slipknot - Slipknot

The Man Who - Travis

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Kenza - Khaled

Post Orgasmic Chill - Skunk Anansie

Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

2001: 2 (6)

Southern Rock Opera - Drive-By Truckers

Melody A.M. - Röyksopp

The Blueprint - JAY Z

Survivor - Destiny's Child

Amnesiac - Radiohead

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

2007: 2 (5)

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Myths Of The Near Future - Klaxons

Kala - M.I.A.

2016: 2 (3)

You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen

Konnichiwa - Skepta

Blackstar - David Bowie

2012: 2 (2)

Blunderbuss - Jack White

Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

1955: 2 (1)

In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

1958: 2 (1)

Jack Takes the Floor - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1964: 2 (1)

A Girl Called Dusty - Dusty Springfield

2014: 2 (1)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs

2019: 2 (1)

GREY Area - Little Simz

2021: 2 (1)

Chemtrails Over The Country Club - Lana Del Rey

1960: 1.67 (3)

At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters

Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba

A Date With The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers

2015: 1.67 (3)

Music in Exile - Songhoy Blues

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

25 - Adele