The Music Canon · No. 141 of 250Methodology
The Great Twenty-Eight cover

The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)

0.2714Canon Score · ranked #141 all time

Aggregated from 3 of 9 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →

About the album

The Great Twenty-Eight is a compilation album by American musician Chuck Berry, released in 1982 on Chess Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, the second-highest ranking compilation on the list after The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley. It was ranked number 51 in the 2020 reboot of the lis

Why it ranks #141

Every list on which The Great Twenty-Eight appears, with its position as published.

ListAuthorityPosition
Rolling Stone 500 (2003 edition)Editorial list#21 / 500
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums (2020)Major international poll#51 / 500
TIME All-TIME 100 Albums (2006)Editorial listSelected