Every Radiohead Album, Ranked by Fans
Rank all nine Radiohead studio albums head-to-head: OK Computer vs Kid A, In Rainbows vs The Bends, Amnesiac vs A Moon Shaped Pool. Which one wins? Early results (n = 1): too few finished brackets to call a leader yet. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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In Rainbows2007
The King of Limbs2011
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
Rank all 9: the song sorter, about 19 picks for your full order, 1 to 9. All 9: a bracket, 8 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 9 start.
How the Radiohead Albums bracket works
This Radiohead album ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — OK Computer or Kid A? In Rainbows or The Bends? — and after 8 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 9-slot size (Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 9 albums in the field. 9 is not a power of two, so 7 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. Everyone gets the same draw on a given day, so you can compare runs with friends; New draw gives you a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
8 picks, 4 rounds
- Opening round1 matchup
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 9 entrants
All 9 entrants are listed below, including OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows and The Bends. Updated
- OK Computer1997Listen on Apple Music
- Kid A2000Listen on Apple Music
- In Rainbows2007Listen on Apple Music
- The Bends1995Listen on Apple Music
- Pablo Honey1993Listen on Apple Music
- Amnesiac2001Listen on Apple Music
- Hail to the Thief2003Listen on Apple Music
- The King of Limbs2011Listen on Apple Music
- A Moon Shaped Pool2016Listen on Apple Music
Tier list instead?
Load all 9 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 Radiohead 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 9 albums in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Questions people ask
How many albums are in the Radiohead Albums bracket?
The pool holds 9 albums. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 8 picks across 4 rounds: Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 7 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 9 slots.
Which albums are included?
OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows, The Bends, Pablo Honey, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Radiohead Albums bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 8 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 8 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 9 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these albums?
Every completed bracket feeds the Radiohead Albums community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 9 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own radiohead 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 9 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.