http://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-billboard-200-albums

Not a critique of the album, but merely some complicated ratio thing including singles.

Hard to believe since it spent 24 weeks at Number 1; same as the Number 1 album on their charts; however longevity, singles, etc. were taken into account.

Worst list I have ever seen...

Adele is #1 ahead of Pink Floyd & The Beatles...

I'm usually the first to say that everyone has their own opinions and that every person's list of Greatest album's is justified in one way or another but... Really? Two Taylor Swift albums in the top 20? Justin Beiber ranking higher than Prince? The real nail on the coffin for me was seeing Supernatural listed there. I cannot stand that record, it was a Various Artists album FEATURING Santana! How does that make it one of the greatest albums ever?

Nivivrus said:

I'm usually the first to say that everyone has their own opinions and that every person's list of Greatest album's is justified in one way or another but... Really? Two Taylor Swift albums in the top 20? Justin Beiber ranking higher than Prince? The real nail on the coffin for me was seeing Supernatural listed there. I cannot stand that record, it was a Various Artists album FEATURING Santana! How does that make it one of the greatest albums ever?

It's not a list that was made of opinions, it's about the charts

mynameisnotsusan said:

From their site These all-time rankings are based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 (from its launch on Aug. 4, 1958 through Oct. 10, 2015) and Billboard 200 (from Aug. 17, 1963 — when we combined our two leading pop album album charts for stereo and mono releases into one all-encompassing weekly chart — through Oct. 10, 2015). Titles are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at lower rungs earning the least. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted differently to account for chart turnover rates over various periods. Artists are ranked based on the combined point totals, as outlined above, of all their Hot 100 or Billboard 200 chart entries.

A loose translation: this "chart" is some kind of experimental algorythmwhereas "oranges"= X /"apples"=y X (some voodoo calculations that make some old white artists shoot up / some more voodoo calculations that make young white artists shoot up).

Nivivrus said:

I'm usually the first to say that everyone has their own opinions and that every person's list of Greatest album's is justified in one way or another but... Really? Two Taylor Swift albums in the top 20? Justin Beiber ranking higher than Prince? The real nail on the coffin for me was seeing Supernatural listed there. I cannot stand that record, it was a Various Artists album FEATURING Santana! How does that make it one of the greatest albums ever?

Supernatural is a great album.Yeah,it has alot of guest artists but the songs are on point.Prince attempted a similiar strategy when he recorded Rave but it didn't work nearly as well.

Adele? They must use streaming and youtube in their calculations!

PURPLE RAIN is in fact, something like the #15 best selling album of all time in the USA. It sold better than any of the beatles album.

RODSERLING said:

PURPLE RAIN is in fact, something like the #15 best selling album of all time in the USA. It sold better than any of the beatles album.

Purple Rain numbers never have been updated by the RIAA since 1996.

The last update the RIAA certified Purple Rain as 13x Platnium... In almost 20 years I'm sure it has at least sold another million in the U.S. alone...

Total sales of Purple Rain still stand at over 25 million copies, if not more...