Albums, ranked by the people who play them

938,164 records are in here. 20,361 of them carry a rating so far, and those are the ones below. Not a critics' poll reprinted since 1974: the order moves every time somebody scores something.

According to Riffiter listeners, the best album is Purple Rain by Prince, rated 4.7/5 by 21 listeners.

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Hidden gems

Rated highly by the handful of people who have found them. A list that can only come from a rating spread, which is why no catalog site has one.

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Most divisive

Where the ratings split hardest. Not the worst records and not the best, the ones nobody here can agree about.

Best albums of all time

The full fifty, weighted so two perfect votes cannot outrank four hundred honest ones.

Most rated

By sheer volume: the records this site has argued about most.

By decade

The 1960s through the 2020s, each opening onto the artists who defined it and the songs that came off those records.

By genre

Every genre with real depth behind it, ranked inside itself rather than against everything else.

Rated one of these differently?

Every score here is somebody's. Add yours and the grid reshuffles around what Riffiter listeners actually play.

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