BestEverAlbums.com
Encyclopedia
Best Ever Albums is a website
and database
whose prime purpose is to establish and rank the greatest music
album
s of all time and surface these to site visitors. The rankings are aggregated together from around two thousand individual chart submissions to form the overall chart. 'Rank points' are awarded for each position that an album obtains within a greatest album chart and the sum total of these rank points is then used to determine an album's position in the overall charts.
magazine who published an article describing what they considered to be the top 500 music albums of all time
.
BEA integrates the community aspects of other Web 2.0 sites such as Digg
, using the collective intelligence
of site visitors to highlight the best albums.
The site's original objective was to highlight the best music albums of all time, but since then the site has expanded to include lists by year and decade and now also shows the top member-rated albums (in addition to the top-ranked), using a Bayesian average
to determine the overall positions.
In addition to creating greatest album charts (any of which can be exported to CSV
files, or be subscribed to via RSS
feeds), members can also create personal lists of favourite albums, participate on the forums, track their music collections and assign comments or ratings. In 2010, the number of tracks & albums in the database passed the 100,000 mark. At this point, over 150,000 user ratings had been submitted.
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
and database
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
whose prime purpose is to establish and rank the greatest music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s of all time and surface these to site visitors. The rankings are aggregated together from around two thousand individual chart submissions to form the overall chart. 'Rank points' are awarded for each position that an album obtains within a greatest album chart and the sum total of these rank points is then used to determine an album's position in the overall charts.
History
Best Ever Albums was founded and launched in October 2005 and was inspired by Rolling StoneRolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
magazine who published an article describing what they considered to be the top 500 music albums of all time
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is the title of a 2003 special issue of American magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.Related news articles:...
.
BEA integrates the community aspects of other Web 2.0 sites such as Digg
Digg
Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems...
, using the collective intelligence
Collective intelligence
Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks....
of site visitors to highlight the best albums.
The site's original objective was to highlight the best music albums of all time, but since then the site has expanded to include lists by year and decade and now also shows the top member-rated albums (in addition to the top-ranked), using a Bayesian average
Bayesian average
A Bayesian average is a method of estimating the mean of a population consistent with Bayesian interpretation, where instead of estimating the mean strictly from the available data set, other existing information related to that data set may also be incorporated into the calculation in order to...
to determine the overall positions.
In addition to creating greatest album charts (any of which can be exported to CSV
Comma-separated values
A comma-separated values file stores tabular data in plain-text form. As a result, such a file is easily human-readable ....
files, or be subscribed to via RSS
RSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
feeds), members can also create personal lists of favourite albums, participate on the forums, track their music collections and assign comments or ratings. In 2010, the number of tracks & albums in the database passed the 100,000 mark. At this point, over 150,000 user ratings had been submitted.
Overall standings
- Best album of the 2000s: Kid AKid AKid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in October 2000 by the Parlophone label. A commercial success worldwide, Kid A went platinum in its first week of release in the United Kingdom. Despite the lack of an official single or music video as publicity, Kid A...
by RadioheadRadioheadRadiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
(2000) - Best album of the 1990s: OK ComputerOK ComputerOK Computer is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997 on Parlophone in the UK and 1 July 1997 by Capitol Records in the US. It marks a deliberate attempt by the band to move away from the introspective guitar-oriented sound of their previous...
by Radiohead (1997) (also voted the best album of all time) - Best album of the 1980s: DoolittleDoolittle (album)Doolittle features an eclectic mix of musical styles. While tracks such as "Tame" and "Crackity Jones" are fast and aggressive, and incorporate the band's trademark loud–quiet dynamic, other songs such as "Silver", "I Bleed", and "Here Comes Your Man" reveal a quieter, slower and more melodic...
by Pixies (1987) - Best album of the 1970s: The Dark Side of the MoonThe Dark Side of the MoonThe Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in March 1973. It built on ideas explored in the band's earlier recordings and live shows, but lacks the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work following the departure...
by Pink FloydPink FloydPink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
(1973) - Best album of the 1960s: RevolverRevolver (album)Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock group The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966 on the Parlophone label and produced by George Martin. Many of the tracks on Revolver are marked by an electric guitar-rock sound, in contrast with their previous LP, the folk rock inspired Rubber...
by The BeatlesThe BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
(1966) - Best album of the 1950s: Kind of BlueKind of BlueKind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959...
by Miles DavisMiles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
(1959)