Kanye West, Rick Ross, Bink!, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Malik Yusef & MIKE DEAN No I.D., Manfred Mann, MIKE DEAN, RZA, Swizz Beatz, CyHi The Prynce, Pusha T, JAY-Z & Kanye West JAY-Z, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, RZA & CyHi The Prynce Harley Justice Wertheimer, Daniel Lynas, Malik Yusef, Ben Bronfman, Jeff Bhasker, MIKE DEAN, Plain Pat, Justin Vernon, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, JAY-Z & Kanye West Kanye West, Charlie Wilson, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver, Justin Vernon Kanye West, Malik Jones, Jeff Bhasker, Jenny-Bea Englishman, LaNeah Menzies Kanye West, Rihanna, Elton John, Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Drake Kanye West, Malik Jones, Dexter Mills, Jeff Bhasker, Jay Jenkins Kanye West, Ernest Wilson, Scott Mescudi, Malik Jones Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, Rhymefest, Malik Yusef, Raekwon, Kid Cudi, MIKE DEAN, No I.D. George Condo's accompanying artwork – illustrating West being straddled by an armless winged female (resembling a mythological figure) – has been ranked among the greatest album covers.Įrnest Wilson, Jeff Bhasker, Jon Anderson, Kanye West, MIKE DEAN, Malik Yusef, Mike Oldfield, Robert Diggs Widely considered West's best album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has ranked in several professionally curated lists as the best album of the 2010s and among the greatest of all time according to NME and Rolling Stone. The album's hit single "All of the Lights" won Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The album also won Best Rap Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards but was not nominated for Album of the Year, which was viewed as a "snub" by several media outlets. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was an immediate and widespread critical success, and was named the best album of 2010 in many publications' year-end lists, including the annual Pazz & Jop poll of American critics nationwide. Additional recording sessions took place at Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California, and at Electric Lady Studios and Platinum Sound Studios in New York City. Retreating to a self-imposed exile in Hawaii in 2009, he recorded the album at Honolulu's Avex Studio in a communal environment involving numerous contributing musicians. It was released on November 22, 2010, by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records following a period of public controversy for West. The standard deviation for this album is 21.4.My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.7/100, a mean average of 82.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.8/100. This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on.
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings) The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average.
Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. You can include this album in your own chart from the My Charts page! My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy collection Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. Latest 20 charts that this album appears in: Sort ranks