THE ALBUM RANKER FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE MUSIC
Eminem
Which is the better album?
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The Eminem Show
2002
The Marshall Mathers LP
2000
Same pair for everyone today. Sign up and cast your vote.
TakeRank is the album ranker where you pick the better of two albums, then do it again. Your picks add up to your own ranking, artist by artist, and show you where your taste agrees with everyone else's.
How it worksEverything 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.
Start From What You Listen To
Connect Last.fm or ListenBrainz and we pull in your real listening history. Your first ranking is about music you already love, not a list of names someone else picked.
Global Leaderboards
See how everyone else has ranked the same albums. Every vote counts towards the shared leaderboard, including yours.
Best of 2026 so far
The top ten albums of 2026, ranked by fans voting on two at a time. The year isn't over, so it's still moving.
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Lists worth arguing about
Album collections the community is still fighting over.
Taylor Swift vs Beyoncé
15 albumsOther
Taylor Swift vs Sabrina Carpenter
15 albumsOther
Sabrina Carpenter vs Olivia Rodrigo
10 albumsOther
Best albums of the 1990s
The decade that could not decide what it was: grunge, Britpop, trip-hop, the golden age of hip-hop, all elbowing each other for room.
5 albumsBy decade
Linkin Park Albums With Chester Bennington
7 albumsOther
Best debut albums
First records that arrived fully formed. No warm-up, no apprenticeship - just a band turning up knowing exactly what they were.
6 albumsStarter packs
What is TakeRank?
TakeRank is a free album ranker 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.
Start from what you already listen to
The hardest part of any ranking site is the blank page. You land on a grid of twelve artists someone else chose, and none of them are yours. So TakeRank lets you connect Last.fm or ListenBrainz instead, and builds your first ranking out of the music you already play.
Connect an account and we import your listening history, match it against the MusicBrainz catalogue, and put your own artists in front of you: the ones you played this week, in the order you played them. The albums you are asked to choose between are records you actually have opinions about, which is the whole point.
Last.fm scrobbles from Spotify, Apple Music and most other players, so connecting it brings that listening across with it. Both services are free, neither asks for your password, and connecting takes nothing but a username. Your listening keeps syncing in the background, so the app stays current as your taste moves. Disconnect at any time and everything we imported is deleted.
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.