Lists that rank the best musical records to ever hit our ears.

The Greatest Albums

Greatest Albums

This is a list of the greatest albums of all time, created and ranked by music fans worldwide. Music is as subjective as any art form, but most people can agree that there are works that rise above the rest and go down as the best albums of all time, regardless of their genre. This is not a list of your &quot;favorite&quot; albums, but a list of the &quot;greatest&quot; albums. Whatever your musical tastes, vote and rank the albums you think had the most impact on music, the most influence on culture and other musicians... the greatest relevance to their genre. From <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/diamond-certified-albums/ranker-music" target="_blank">Diamond-certified albums</a> to the most popular albums ever, this list has them all.If you see an album that should be listed here, be sure to add it! And to really impact this list's order, rerank&nbsp;it to add your own version of how these albums should be ranked.&nbsp;So what are the best albums ever? How about the top albums of all time? Vote now!

The Greatest Albums of All-Time

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Greatest Albums of All Time | List of Best Records Ever Made

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Albums

Building a successful band is tough but keeping it going is much&nbsp;tougher. Even some of history's biggest, best-selling bands couldn't repeat the&nbsp;magic more than once. Break-ups and bad musical decisions have sabotaged some of the all-time best bands and artists. Just how hard is it? The Smiths, Cream and Velvet Underground lasted just four albums. Nirvana and&nbsp;Jimi Hendrix? Just three. The Sex Pistols? Only one.Sure, plenty of bands continue to release albums for years but that doesn't mean they are good. The list of artists who have released what would be considered five great albums isn't as long as you might think. Not everyone can successfully reinvent themselves like Bob Dylan or The Beatles or stay as consistent as AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.&nbsp;So which artists have gone the distance five full times?&nbsp;

Bands Or Artists With Five Great Albums

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50+ Bands Or Artists With Five Great Albums

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Music of the 2000s

2000s Music

List of the best albums of the 2000s decade, voted on and ranked by fans and critics. This list includes the greatest albums released between January 2000 and December 2009. Despite the rising popularity of song singles and accessibility through iTunes and other mp3 formats, the titles listed prove that the in the 00s, the album was as strong and creative as ever. This list contains the best 00s albums from all genres, from hip hop to pop to indie rock to metal. Vote for your favorites to move them up the list, or press "rerank" to create your own personalized order that will impact this ultimate list.

The Best Albums of the 2000s

Hip-Hop Albums

Update: <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-rap-songs-2020/music-lover" target="_blank">Dive into the best new hip hop with our list of 2020&#39;s top rap songs</a>.

Hip-hop heads,&nbsp;let&#39;s rank the best rap albums of 2018, which may also include the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-rap-songs-2018/ranker-music" target="_blank">best rap songs of 2018</a>. These are only studio albums, but&nbsp;we do have a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-mixtapes-of-2018/ranker-music" target="_blank">list of&nbsp;2018 rap mixtapes</a>&nbsp;if you&#39;re interested in that. From popular hip-hop artists, like Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Cardi&nbsp;B, Drake, and Chance the Rapper, this list of new rap albums will keep being updated as highly anticipated albums are released. What is the best hip-hop album of 2018?

Starting the year off, Migos, Rich Brian, Nipsey Hussle, and Lil Skies,&nbsp;all had 2018 album releases. Even the Black Panther soundtrack is featured here!&nbsp;Other top rappers who are releasing their&nbsp;upcoming&nbsp;albums in 2018 include Nas, Lil Wayne, Pusha T, Travis Scott, Post Malone, and Nicki Minaj.

Which new rap albums of 2018 did you like the best? Feel free to add your favorite 2018&nbsp;rap albums that are missing from this list.&nbsp;

The Best Rap Albums Of 2018

The 50+ Best New Rap Albums Of 2018, Ranked By Hip Hop Heads

Whether you&#39;re hanging at your best friend&#39;s house, taking a peek at your aunt&#39;s record collection, or rifling through the glove box in your dad&#39;s car, the results are always&nbsp;the same: you find those few albums every parent owns. It seems like the exact same mix of early 2000s albums and classic records filled up every CD tower and drawer. These <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-guitar-rock-albums" target="_blank">guitar rock albums</a> and soft contemporary hits&nbsp;probably provided the soundtrack to your childhood, before you got your own taste in music and had enough allowance to buy some discs yourself.

To be fair, some of the CDs in your parent&#39;s collection are probably among the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-albums-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest albums of all time</a>. Who doesn&#39;t love Michael Jackson&#39;s Thriller, or the the Beatles&#39; top hits? But some of these albums beloved by your mom or dad might <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/embarrassing-90s-cds/chaz-fletcher" target="_blank">make you cringe</a>. Sure, you love them, but it&#39;s awkward to watch your parents throw on Abba and attempt some &#39;80s-inspired&nbsp;moves.

How do these albums get into each parent&#39;s collection? Who knows! However they end up in that CD rack, it&#39;s time to celebrate the music your mom listens to and the CDs your dad loves.

Albums You're Guaranteed To Find In Every Parent's CD Collection

20 Albums In Every Parent's CD Collection

Rebecca Shortall

Ranking the very best songs, bands, and musicians of the greatest decade for hit jams.

Music for Your '90s Playlists

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&nbsp;List of the best albums released in the 1990s, from the years 1990 to 1999. These albums span all music genres – though tend to focus largely on <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-genres-of-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">popular music genres</a> like rock, hip-hop, R&amp;B and pop – and cover both new '90s bands that exploded on the scene along with older acts from previous generations that continued making music at the time. The list order is based both on votes and on individual lists made by users – to have the most influence on the rankings, add your own list of favorite '90s albums.Popular trends in the '90s largely carried over from the previous decade, including a fascination with teen pop and dance pop music, along with the growing popularity of hip-hop and rap albums among a mainstream audience. The early 1990s were dominated by the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/west-coast-hip-hop-bands-and-musicians/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">West Coast gangsta rap</a> sound, particularly following the release of Dr. Dre's &quot;The Chronic&quot; in 1992. The mid '90s were notable for the shocking, violent deaths of two of the era's most popular rappers – Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Notorious BIG). Wallace's producer and collaborator, Sean &quot;Puffy&quot; Combs, went on to dominate the mainstream hip-hop charts in the ensuing years.Contemporary R&amp;B and soul – sometimes in the '90s grouped under the term &quot;urban music&quot; – also remained extremely popular with acts such as En Vogue, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, Babyface, and R. Kelly dominating the charts.Rock in the '90s was notable for the explosion of the &quot;grunge&quot; sound in the early part of the decade, with <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/bands-like-nirvana/music-lover?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">bands like Nirvana</a>, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam bringing the grimy, less polished style of the Pacific Northwest to mainstream radio. Later, the grunge trend melded with the popularity of what was termed &quot;alternative rock,&quot; an umbrella term incorporating styles as varied as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, and Sublime. British acts making up the &quot;Britpop&quot; sub-genre of rock, which remained popular throughout the decade, included Blur, Oasis, Pulp, and Supergrass.What are greatest albums of the 90s? Take a look here and you'll see.

Automatic for the People

The Best Albums of the 1990s

Best 90s Albums | List of the Top 1990s Records & Releases

Hey, music buffs: study up on these lists fun facts and little-known trivia that take you inside the studio and behind the scenes of classic, hit, and infamous songs and albums.

Music in the Making

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There are plenty of contenders for the best albums of the &#39;90s, but The Downward Spiral&nbsp;by Nine Inch Nails is an LP that&rsquo;s more than a look inside 1994. The album is a genuine masterpiece written and recorded by Trent Reznor during the beginning of his descent into drug-fueled madness. Through the record,&nbsp;Reznor was able to channel the depression and mania that were&nbsp;piling on his personal and professional lives&nbsp;into a dense concept album that captured the feeling of falling apart.

The time leading up to the recording of the album was marked by&nbsp;scandal. Reznor&nbsp;was hiding out from his record company,&nbsp;jettisoning members of his touring band, and becoming the poster boy for industrial rock. Reznor wasn&rsquo;t just writing about the downward spiral, he was living it.&nbsp;

Behind The Scenes, ‘The Downward Spiral’ Was A Chronicle Of Trent Reznor’s Depression

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Jacob Shelton

Lists about the Fab Four, who changed the entire world of music starting in 1960 Liverpool.

The Beatles

Abbey Road&nbsp;is widely considered&nbsp;the Beatles&#39; greatest album - and almost their last, had they not decided to finish work on Let It Be before officially calling it a day. The sessions for&nbsp;Abbey Road&nbsp;came at a turbulent time for <a href="https://www.ranker.com/review/the-beatles/2176463" target="_blank">the Beatles</a>, whose members were not getting along as well anymore. The recording of the album was meant to be something of a back-to-basics approach for the band and producer George Martin, contrasting with their more relaxed and experimental sessions in the handful of years preceding&nbsp;the album&#39;s creation.&nbsp;

The legacy of&nbsp;Abbey Road&nbsp;may seem overshadowed by the now-iconic album cover, but it&#39;s the recording process that made it such a legendary&nbsp;piece of art. And it was the beginning of the end for&nbsp;arguably the most influential band in history.

Let&#39;s take a look at the most interesting stories from the recording of the timeless&nbsp;Abbey Road.&nbsp;

Behind The Scene Stories From The Recording Of The Beatles' 'Abbey Road'

Behind The Scene Stories From The Recording Of The Beatles 'Abbey Road'

Sean Kelly

90s Music

<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-songs-by-90s-one-hit-wonders/ranker-music" target="_blank">One-hit wonders</a>&nbsp;on albums can be a blessing and a curse for an artist. On one hand, having a hit is a great and life-changing thing. On the other hand, if the album fails, oftentimes the artist immediately fades into obscurity. For fans, it can be disappointing when you love a song, but the album it&#39;s on doesn&#39;t deliver as a whole. The &#39;90s and 2000s were full of such albums.

&#39;90s&nbsp;one-hit wonders are a real nostalgic phenomenon nowadays, and it seems like there were too&nbsp;many of them to count - from <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/forgotten-90s-boy-band-hits/carly-silver" target="_blank">boy bands</a> to hip-hop artists to rock groups. Do you remember the feeling you got when you put on Deep Blue Something&#39;s&nbsp;11th Song&nbsp;and realized that &quot;Breakfast At Tiffany&#39;s&quot; was pretty much a catchy anomaly on an album of duds? And let&#39;s be honest, everyone was a little disappointed when they listened to that <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/lou-bega-albums-discography/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Lou Bega album</a> in full after car jamming to &quot;Mambo No. 5.&quot;

Get ready to relive some truly bland moments in music history and vote on the most disappointing albums of the &#39;90s and 2000s.&nbsp;

The Most Disappointing Nostalgic Albums For '90s Kids

The Most Disappointing Nostalgic Albums From 1990 to 2002

The greatest rock bands and artists in every conceivable sub-genre, ranked.

For Those About to Rock

Ranking the best of everything of the last 10 years.

2010s: A Decade in Review

Here are the&nbsp;best rock albums&nbsp;of the decade, ranked by fans everywhere.&nbsp;Featuring popular music from some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-rock-bands-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">biggest rock bands</a> and musicians today, this list of the top 2010s rock albums&nbsp;includes punk rock, indie rock, folk rock, and other subgenres.&nbsp;From Arcade Fire&#39;s 2010&nbsp;Grammy-winning album&nbsp;The Suburbs to David Bowie&#39;s&nbsp;2016&nbsp;final album Blackstar,&nbsp;the 2010s decade was filled with so many good rock albums.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Vote up the best rock albums of the 2010s, and add your favorites if they deserve to be on this list.&nbsp;

The Greatest Rock Albums Of The 2010s, Ranked

The 100+ Best Rock Albums Of The 2010s Decade, Ranked By Fans

Jovaughn Brown

Ranking the all-time greatest and hottest new Christmas songs and albums for your yuletide singalongs and party playlists.

That's the Jingle Bell Rock

Christmas

Nothing goes better with hot chocolate&nbsp;in the wintertime than the best R&amp;B Christmas albums of all-time.&nbsp;Featuring great&nbsp;Christmas songs from popular R&amp;B singers, like John Legend, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, and Mary J. Blige, this list of R&amp;B holiday albums is the perfect starting point for creating your Christmas music playlist. What are the top Christmas R&amp;B albums ever?

Vote up the best R&amp;B and soul Xmas albums, and add your favorites if they deserve a spot on this list.

The Best R&B Christmas Albums Of All Time

The 50+ Greatest R&B and Soul Christmas Albums Ever, Ranked By Fans

AC/DC is among the most iconic bands in rock and roll history. The ultimate garage band, they have achieved a status few bands are capable of. They have the ability to appeal to fans of most any genre of music without changing their sound, and this is just one of the reasons why they are considered by many to be one of the <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-best-rock-bands-of-all-time" target="_blank">best rock bands of all time</a>. Vote for the AC/DC albums you love the most, and of course, rerank this list in any order you like. Which of AC/DC's 15 studio albums rank highest on this list is arguably dependent on whether you are a fan of Bon Scott or Brian Johnson. The truth is, both fit the AC/DC sound perfectly, and Bon would no doubt look down from on high with thumbs or horns raised. There is no doubt, however, that these albums contain some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/ac-and-dc-best-songs-ever-/aargh" target="_blank">greatest AC/DC songs</a> ever recorded. AC/DC is an enduring rock band in an era when great bands often fall on the wayside in favor of newer, &quot;hotter&quot; young groups. Why? Because this band recorded some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-albums-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest albums of all time</a>. The AC/DC repertoire&nbsp;is chock full of amazing albums that are all classics. Now we'll get to decide once and for all which AC/DC album is the best!

Stiff Upper Lip

AC/DC Albums, Ranked Best to Worst

Best AC/DC Albums | List of All ACDC Studio Releases

Lists that rank great bands and artists based on their unique quirks. 

What Are You Listening To?

Bands or artists who produced one great album and never came close to matching it. Vote down if you either don't agree that the one album was great, or if you think they produced multiple great albums. In the spirit of the list, don't vote on albums you don't really know. Most importantly, add more artists who fit this criteria!There are a bunch of familiar bands on this list. Though they only had one album, Derek and the Dominos featured some of the biggest names in music history and proved to be one of the greatest side bands as well. Whenever you put Eric Clapton and Duane Allman together, transcendent guitar will occur. That's exactly what happened on &quot;Layla,&quot; one of the most recognized names in rock history. Derek and the Dominos only have one album to their name, but they made sure it counted. The Sex Pistols are another band with only great album, but that's all they needed. The British outfit are widely credited with being with one of the most important bands in the world not only due to their bratty personalities, but also as one of the pioneers of punk rock. Their brashness and their unapologetic, in-your-face music inspired some of the best bands in the world. Nevermind The Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols remains one of the most important albums in punk history and that one great album cemented their status as one of rock's legendary bands Check out more lists like the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-albums-of-all-time">best albums of all time</a>, the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-worst-albums-by-great-bands">most unsuccessful albums</a>,&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-guitar-rock-albums-ever/cptron">Best Guitar Rock Albums</a>

Dire Straits

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Clark Benson

List of the best Charley Pride albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Charley Pride discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Charley Pride albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Charley Pride singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Charley Pride album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Charley Pride album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular. If you want to know, "What is the Best Charley Pride album of all time?" or "What are the top Charley Pride albums?" then this list will answer your questions. The list you're viewing is made up of different albums like Christmas in My Home Town and 24 Greatest Hits.This list of popular Charley Pride CDs has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion. You can use the albums in this list to create a new list, re-rank it to fit your opinion, then share it with your Twitter followers, Facebook friends or with any other social networks you use on a regular basis.

The Best Charley Pride Albums of All Time

List of All Top Charley Pride Albums, Ranked

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Lists of the greatest country bands, artists, and songs, ranked by fans like you. 

Country Music for Country Fans

Have yourself a honky tonk holiday with the best country Christmas albums of all-time, ranked by fans everywhere. Featuring <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-christmas-country-songs/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">good country Christmas songs</a> from popular country singers, like Kacey Musgraves, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, and Brad Paisley, this list of country holiday albums is the perfect starting point for creating your Christmas music playlist. What are the top Christmas country albums ever?

Vote up the best country Xmas albums, and add your favorites if they deserve a spot on this list.

The Best Country Christmas Albums Of All Time

The 50+ Greatest Country Christmas Albums Ever, Ranked

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List of the best Pankaj Udhas albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Pankaj Udhas discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Pankaj Udhas albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Pankaj Udhas singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Pankaj Udhas album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Pankaj Udhas album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular. If you want to know, "What is the Best Pankaj Udhas album of all time?" or "What are the top Pankaj Udhas albums?" then this list will answer your questions. List albums include Hits Of Pankaj Udhas, Volume 2, Humsafar and more.This list of popular Pankaj Udhas CDs has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion. You're able to copy this fact-based list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your opinions, then publish it to share it with your Facebook friends, Twitter followers or with any other social networks you use on a regular basis.

The Best Pankaj Udhas Albums of All Time

List of All Top Pankaj Udhas Albums, Ranked

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Led Zeppelin

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Van Halen

The Doors

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The Number of the Beast

Powerslave

The X Factor

It’s no coincidence that great bands and artists have some of the best debut <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-albums-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">albums of all time</a>. You can tell a lot about a music artist from their first album, for better or worse. A debut album sets the stage for what audiences can expect, including genre, style, inventiveness, and many more details. For some talented artists, a debut album can be genre changing and influence pop culture. But what are the greatest debut albums of all time? See what music lovers have to say in the ranking below.For some bands, a debut album may be their best work or even their only work. More than a few break up after their first effort. For many others, it may be their best work and they may end up being <a href="/list/greatest-songs-by-one-hit-wonders/ranker-music">one-hit wonders</a>. Not many artists continue to find more success after initial efforts.For the purpose of this list however, we only care about that first seminal album. So vote for the artists that you think have the very best debut albums of all time. No sophomore albums allowed. If you don’t see a particularly great debut album listed, add it so that others may vote on it. All genres welcome.

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The Best Debut Albums of All Time, Ranked

The 100+ Greatest Debut Albums Of All Time, Ranked by Music Fans

Fascinating things you didn't know about your favorite entertainers, and lists that rank the greatest rock singers and musicians ever to grace the spotlights.

True Rock Stars

Update:&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/693nUJzIqPADySoYwTFCGu?si=HVODKpb_QZaRJeSbp67Tfg" target="_blank">Follow Ranker&#39;s official New Rock 2020 playlist&nbsp;on Spotify</a>!

Remember when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous, and every rock song had at least a half assed decent guitar solo, and people were doing real drugs and not bath salts? Well, this is a tribute to the music in a time when America was simply about life, liberty, and the pursuit of SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK-N-ROLL! That said, guitar rock may not be as popular as it was in the past, but that doesn&#39;t mean that in the genre&#39;s heyday, there weren&#39;t albums that transcended genres, music types and connected with fans from all over the globe. For starters, who can forget the entire Led Zeppelin catalog? Jimmy Page&#39;s bonecrunching riffs and Robert Plant&#39;s howls brought heavy blues chords to the mainstream while establishing the band as one of guitar rock&#39;s greatest bands.

There are so many influential albums and top guitar albums here that it&#39;s impossible to list them all right here. But so many of the biggest bands in the world populate this list and all of the biggest guitar players in the world are rightfully present on here. Their mere presence alone means that their particular album is going to rock. You have dudes like Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Angus Young, Tony Iommi and Stevie Ray Vaughn amongst others whose guitar prowess is showcased on so many of these albums.&nbsp;

So what are the best guitar rock <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-albums-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">albums of all time</a>? You&#39;ll notice Led Zeppelin II, Are You Experienced and Couldn&#39;t Stand the Weather, but there are so many more. If you think something including amazing guitars is missing, feel free add that album to this list. Vote and re-rank to how you deem it to be fit.

The Greatest Guitar Rock Albums of All Time

Best Guitar Rock Albums Ever | List of Greatest Guitar Rock Records of All Time

Iron Maiden is considered one of the most important bands in the history of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/metal-songs-about-war/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">heavy metal music</a>. The British rockers unleashed a brand of music that set them apart from their contemporaries. The band has released 37 albums, with 15 studio albums, 11 live albums, four EPs and seven compilations.Formed in 1975, Iron Maiden shot to fame to in the early '80s after the release of 1982's The Number of the Beast, 1983's Piece of Mind, 1984's Powerslave, 1985's live release Live After Death, 1986's Somewhere in Time and 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. What makes Iron Maiden albums different from any other band is that their music has received little-to-any support from mainstream rock radio. Yet the albums have continued to sell well over the years, with many achieving platinum and multi-platinum status worldwide.Since the return of lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith in 1999, the band have undergone a resurgence in popularity, reaffirming their standing as one of rock music's biggest bands. Already known as one of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-_live_-bands-and-artists-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best live bands</a> ever, Iron Maiden still attracts tens of thousands of fans to their concerts. Their staying power and rabid fans helped them score their first number one album with The Final Frontier in 2010.With a discography as lengthy as Iron Maiden's, it is up to you to vote on the albums in the Iron Maiden catalog can truly be considered the best. It is not an easy decision with so many legendary albums to choose from, but ultimately ranking Iron Maiden albums falls into the hands of you, the fans. So make sure this Ultimate List reflects your view by voting for all of the Iron Maiden albums.

Dance of Death

All Iron Maiden Albums, Ranked Best to Worst

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Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

Shreddit's top metal albums include some of the best and most classic extreme metal albums ever made. For casual fans, some of these album titles might be new, but they're certainly worth checking out. Longtime fans, however, will likely instantly recognize several of these albums, and realize that they are from some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-heavy-metal-bands-that-i-know" target="_blank">greatest heavy metal bands</a> of all time. This is where the votes come in: Cast your votes up or down, based on your own personal opinions. You can also add any of your favorites that might not be listed, and of course, you can (and should) re-rank this list of Shreddit's favorite metal albums any way you want.

From the doom metal of bands like Sweden's Candlemass to albums by the "stoner" metal band Sleep, the albums listed here reflect the diversity of the metal genre. Again, these are some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-heavy-metal-albums-you_ve-never-heard-/king-dinosaur" target="_blank">best heavy metal albums you've possibly never heard</a>, but they are all worth your time to track down.

Interested in other heavy metal-related lists? Check out and vote on these lists of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-female-hard-rock-and-metal-guitar-shredders" target="_blank">best female hard rock/metal guitar shredders</a>, the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-screamo-bands-of-all-time" target="_blank">best screamo bands of all time</a> and the best overall <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-metal-guitarists-and-guitar-teams" target="_blank">metal guitarists and guitar teams</a>.