Every Queen Album, Ranked by Fans
Rank all 15 Queen studio albums head-to-head: A Night at the Opera vs News of the World, The Game vs A Kind of Magic, Innuendo vs Made in Heaven. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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A Night at the Opera1975
Sheer Heart Attack1974
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
Rank all 15: the song sorter, about 42 picks for your full order, 1 to 15. All 15: a bracket, 14 picks, with tied places.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 15 start.
How the Queen Albums bracket works
This Queen album ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — A Night at the Opera or News of the World? The Game or A Kind of Magic? — and after 14 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 15-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 15-slot size (Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 15 albums in the field. 15 is not a power of two, so 1 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
14 picks, 4 rounds
- Opening round7 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 15 entrants
All 15 entrants are listed below, including A Night at the Opera, News of the World, The Game and A Kind of Magic. Updated
- A Night at the Opera1975Listen on Apple Music
- News of the World1977Listen on Apple Music
- The Game1980Listen on Apple Music
- A Kind of Magic1986Listen on Apple Music
- Queen1973Listen on Apple Music
- Queen II1974Listen on Apple Music
- Sheer Heart Attack1974Listen on Apple Music
- A Day at the Races1976Listen on Apple Music
- Jazz1978Listen on Apple Music
- Flash Gordon1980Listen on Apple Music
- Hot Space1982Listen on Apple Music
- The Works1984Listen on Apple Music
- The Miracle1989Listen on Apple Music
- Innuendo1991Listen on Apple Music
- Made in Heaven1995Listen on Apple Music
Tier list instead?
Load all 15 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Queen album bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Go with the one you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- The default run puts all 15 albums in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Watch for the album you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
How many albums are in the Queen Albums bracket?
The pool holds 15 albums. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 14 picks across 4 rounds: Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 1 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 15 slots.
Which albums are included?
A Night at the Opera, News of the World, The Game, A Kind of Magic, Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Day at the Races, Jazz, Flash Gordon, Hot Space and The Works, plus 3 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Queen Albums bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 14 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other album grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 14 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two albums that never met. If you would rather place the albums into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 15 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these albums?
Every completed bracket feeds the Queen Albums community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 15 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own queen albums bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own albums, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 15 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.