| URL | http://www.besteveralbums.com |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | Partially |
| Type of site | Music |
| Registration | Free |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Launched | October 2005 |
| Revenue | Advertisement |
| Current status | Active |
Best Ever Albums (or BEA) is a website and database whose prime purpose is to establish and rank the greatest music albums of all time and surface these to site visitors. The rankings are aggregated together from around two thousand individual chart submissions to form the overall chart. 'Rank points' are awarded for each position that an album obtains within a greatest album chart and the sum total of these rank points is then used to determine an album's position in the overall charts.
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Best Ever Albums was founded and launched in October 2005[1] and was inspired by Rolling Stone magazine who published an article describing what they considered to be the top 500 music albums of all time.
BEA integrates the community aspects of other Web 2.0 sites such as Digg, using the collective intelligence of site visitors to highlight the best albums.
The site's original objective was to highlight the best music albums of all time, but since then the site has expanded to include lists by year and decade and now also shows the top member-rated albums (in addition to the top-ranked), using a Bayesian average to determine the overall positions.
In addition to creating greatest album charts (any of which can be exported to CSV files, or be subscribed to via RSS feeds), members can also create personal lists of favourite albums, participate on the forums, track their music collections and assign comments or ratings. In 2010, the number of tracks & albums in the database passed the 100,000 mark. At this point, over 150,000 user ratings had been submitted.[2]