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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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
With Teeth
2005
427m
The Downward Spiral
1994
824m
Pretty Hate Machine
1989
247m
Every play of every song on the album, as of 22 October 2026. Where an album has several editions, the biggest figure counts.
Most streamed Nine Inch Nails songs
- 1Closer434m240k/day
- 2The Hand That Feeds202m77k/day
- 3Hurt124m36k/day
- 4Head Like A Hole102m39k/day
- 5Every Day Is Exactly The Same77m35k/day
- 6Only51m21k/day
- 7March Of The Pigs47m15k/day
- 8Dead Souls - From "The Crow" Soundtrack40m12k/day
- 9We're In This Together39m18k/day
- 10Terrible Lie34m14k/day
Source: Spotify lifetime totals via kworb.net. Albums as of 22 October 2026, songs as of 22 October 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.
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