Nine Inch Nails Albums Ranked
Every Nine Inch Nails album ranked worst to best by the fans who voted, one head-to-head matchup at a time. Their #1: The Downward Spiral.
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Rank Nine Inch Nails's albums
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START RANKINGA different ranking, from a different crowd: Nine Inch Nails's albums and songs by lifetime Spotify streams. Figures move daily. Nothing here feeds the fan ranking.
Most streamed Nine Inch Nails albums
Every play of every song on the album, as of 30 September 2026. Where an album has several editions, the biggest figure counts.
Most streamed Nine Inch Nails songs
- 1Closer437m216k/day
- 2The Hand That Feeds200m74k/day
- 3Hurt136m39k/day
- 4Head Like A Hole117m42k/day
- 5Every Day Is Exactly The Same76m35k/day
- 6Only51m19k/day
- 7March Of The Pigs48m16k/day
- 8Wish42m13k/day
- 9Dead Souls - From The Crow Soundtrack39m11k/day
- 10We're In This Together39m16k/day
Source: Spotify lifetime totals via kworb.net. Albums as of 30 September 2026, songs as of 30 September 2026. Stream counts are not votes and are never mixed into the fan ranking.
Nine Inch Nails albums: your questions
- What is Nine Inch Nails' best album?
- The Downward Spiral (1994) is Nine Inch Nails' #1 album on TakeRank, winning 97% of its 30 head-to-head matchups.
- What is Nine Inch Nails' most underrated album?
- Year Zero (2007) sits at #4 but wins 67% of its matchups, the best record of any Nine Inch Nails album outside their top three.
- How many albums has Nine Inch Nails released?
- Nine Inch Nails has released 11 studio albums between 1989 and 2020.