Global Leaderboards
The highest-rated albums and songs of all time, decided by head-to-head votes and updating continuously.
Looking for a single week? Browse the weekly charts or head back to community stats.
Albums ranked head-to-head against albums by other artists, from cross-artist voting.
What the leaderboards rank
The leaderboards are the canonical community rankings on TakeRank. Every album and track on these boards has been compared, head to head, against many others. The Elo system used here is the same maths that ranks chess players, professional poker, and football teams. It does not care how famous an artist is or how much they sell. It only cares about who wins when listeners are asked to pick.
There are two boards: top albums and top songs. Both rank across artists, so a record is only here because it beat records by other people - not because it won a fight with the album next to it on its own shelf. There is no "weighted by recency" or "weighted by popularity" trick. Volume matters, but only because more votes make a rating more confident.
The top three on each board are highlighted. Ratings sit beside every entry along with the number of head-to-heads behind them, because a 1200 from six votes and a 1200 from six hundred are not the same claim.
Leaderboards vs trending
The leaderboards are slow. They tell you what the community has decided is the best, after enough votes have stacked up to make a call. The trending page is fast. It tells you what people are arguing about right now. Both are useful. The leaderboards are where you go to settle "what is the best album of all time"; the trending page is where you go to find something new to listen to tonight.
Vote on enough albums yourself and you will start to see how your personal rankings compare to the community boards. Sometimes they line up. Sometimes you will end up with a top ten that looks nothing like the public leaderboard, and that is genuinely interesting - it is the moment you find out what makes your taste yours.