RANK YOUR FAVOURITE ALBUMS THE FUN WAY
Compare pairs of albums, watch your ratings update in real-time, and create personalised rankings. Share your musical taste with the world.
What is TakeRank?
TakeRank is a community-driven album ranking app for people who actually care about music. Instead of pulling rankings from a critics' list or a streaming algorithm, you build your own. You pick an artist, you get pairs of their albums, and you say which one you prefer. Do that a few times and you have a personal ranking. Do it alongside everyone else and you have a community ranking that gets sharper with every vote.
The voting uses the Elo system, the same one chess uses to rank players. Every comparison nudges both albums up or down, with bigger swings when an underdog wins. That means a record only needs a few honest head-to-head matches to find roughly where it belongs, and the more votes a pairing gets, the more confident the rating becomes. You do not have to fill in star ratings or write reviews. You just pick a favourite.
You can rank albums inside a single artist's catalogue, sort albums across all artists once you have voted enough, and even rank individual tracks. Everything you do feeds your own profile and the global community boards, so you can see how your taste lines up (or doesn't) with everyone else's.
EXPLORE RANKINGS
See how your favourite albums stack up against the community.
Albums Ranked
Total Votes
Active Rankers
Artists Covered
Everything you need to rank your music
TakeRank uses head-to-head matchups and the Elo rating system to build accurate, personal album rankings.
Elo Rating System
Album matchups powered by the same algorithm used in chess. Every vote refines your personal rankings with mathematical precision.
Discover Artists
Search millions of artists via MusicBrainz. Find studio albums, rank them head-to-head, and see where your favourites land.
Personal Rankings
Build your own album rankings across every artist you listen to. Your taste, your data, your leaderboard.
Global Leaderboards
See how the community ranks albums. Every vote contributes to a living, breathing global consensus.
Cross-Artist Voting
Once you have ranked enough albums, unlock cross-artist matchups. Pit albums from different artists against each other.
Community Activity
Follow what others are ranking. See trending artists, recent votes, and discover music through the community.
GLOBAL TOP ALBUMS
The highest-rated albums across all TakeRank users.
OK Computer
Radiohead
1847
To Pimp a Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
1923
In Rainbows
Radiohead
1801
RECENT ACTIVITY
Real-time votes and rankings from the TakeRank community.
Sarah voted Blonde over Channel Orange
2 min ago
Frank Ocean
Marcus voted Abbey Road over Revolver
5 min ago
The Beatles
Elena voted OK Computer over The Bends
8 min ago
Radiohead
James voted DAMN. over Section.80
12 min ago
Kendrick Lamar
Priya voted Hounds of Love over The Kick Inside
15 min ago
Kate Bush
Tom voted AM over Favourite Worst Nightmare
20 min ago
Arctic Monkeys
How to get started
Sign up for a free account, search for an artist you love, and start voting. You will be shown two of their albums side by side and asked which you prefer. There is no right answer. You can rank a stadium rock catalogue, an obscure ambient discography, or a pop singer's five-album run with the same tools. All music tastes belong here.
Once you have ranked at least twenty albums you unlock cross-artist voting and the Top Albums board, where the strongest records from your collection face off against each other. Rank a hundred and the app starts surfacing tracks. The more you vote, the more accurate your personal ranking gets and the more you contribute to the community lists. It is a long game and it gets better the more you play.