Nirvana Albums Ranked
Every Nirvana album ranked worst to best by the fans who voted, one head-to-head matchup at a time. Their #1: Nevermind.
Ranked by fans
- albums
- 4albums
- fans voting
- 53fans voting
- votes
- 253votes
- avg rating
- 996avg rating
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Rank Nirvana's albums
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START RANKINGA different ranking, from a different crowd: Nirvana's albums and songs by lifetime Spotify streams. Figures move daily. Nothing here feeds the fan ranking.
Most streamed Nirvana albums
Nevermind (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe)
1991
8.8bn
Nevermind
1991
8.98bn
In Utero
1993
3.31bn
Every play of every song on the album, as of 4 November 2026. Where an album has several editions, the biggest figure counts.
Most streamed Nirvana songs
- 1Smells Like Teen Spirit3.16bn1.4m/day
- 2Come As You Are2.22bn1m/day
- 3Heart-Shaped Box1.2bn532k/day
- 4Lithium903m340k/day
- 5About A Girl714m297k/day
- 6The Man Who Sold The World - Live708m318k/day
- 7Something In The Way679m230k/day
- 8In Bloom540m248k/day
- 9Dumb458m158k/day
- 10All Apologies422m183k/day
Source: Spotify lifetime totals via kworb.net. Albums as of 4 November 2026, songs as of 4 November 2026. Stream counts are not votes and are never mixed into the fan ranking.
Nirvana albums: your questions
- What is Nirvana's best album?
- Nevermind (1991) is Nirvana's #1 album on TakeRank, winning 64% of its 101 head-to-head matchups.
- What is Nirvana's most underrated album?
- Bleach (1989) sits at #4 but wins 32% of its matchups, the best record of any Nirvana album outside their top three.
- How many albums has Nirvana released?
- Nirvana has released 4 studio albums, from Bleach (1989) to In Utero (1993).
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