Every Rush Album, Ranked by Fans
Rank all 19 Rush studio albums head-to-head: Moving Pictures vs 2112, Permanent Waves vs Hemispheres, Signals vs Clockwork Angels. Pick your favorite. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Presto1989
Signals1982
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
Rank all 19: the song sorter, about 58 picks for your full order, 1 to 19. All 19: a bracket, 18 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 19 start.
How the Rush Albums bracket works
This Rush album ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Moving Pictures or 2112? Permanent Waves or Hemispheres? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. By the end you have ranked the 16 in today's draw without ever looking at more than two at a time; play All 19 for the whole field.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 19 albums. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same album can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 19 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 19 entrants
All 19 entrants are listed below, including Moving Pictures, 2112, Permanent Waves and Hemispheres. Updated
- Moving Pictures1981Listen on Apple Music
- 21121976Listen on Apple Music
- Permanent Waves1980Listen on Apple Music
- Hemispheres1978Listen on Apple Music
- Rush1974Listen on Apple Music
- Fly by Night1975Listen on Apple Music
- Caress of Steel1975Listen on Apple Music
- A Farewell to Kings1977Listen on Apple Music
- Signals1982Listen on Apple Music
- Grace Under Pressure1984Listen on Apple Music
- Power Windows1985Listen on Apple Music
- Hold Your Fire1987Listen on Apple Music
- Presto1989Listen on Apple Music
- Roll the Bones1991Listen on Apple Music
- Counterparts1993Listen on Apple Music
- Test for Echo1996Listen on Apple Music
- Vapor Trails2002Listen on Apple Music
- Snakes & Arrows2007Listen on Apple Music
- Clockwork Angels2012Listen on Apple Music
Tier list instead?
Load all 19 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 Rush 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.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 19 so more of the 19 albums make the field.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
How many albums are in the Rush Albums bracket?
The pool holds 19 albums. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 19 slots.
Which albums are included?
Moving Pictures, 2112, Permanent Waves, Hemispheres, Rush, Fly by Night, Caress of Steel, A Farewell to Kings, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire, plus 7 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Rush Albums bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 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 15 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 19 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these albums?
Every completed bracket feeds the Rush Albums community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 19 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own rush 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 19 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.