Many thanks to everyone who recently voted for their favorite album by The Smiths as part of Albumism’s readers’ poll series! Check out the consensus results & rankings below, and stay tuned for our next readers’ poll coming soon.

Note: While the compilation albums originally released in the 1980s were included in this poll, subsequent “best-of” and singles collections were excluded, so as to focus the voting on The Smiths’ prime—albeit short-lived—recording period.

Albumism Readers’ Poll Results (3,021 Total Votes):

#1 | The Queen Is Dead | 1986 | 1,088 votes (36% of total) | Read More

#2 | Hatful Of Hollow | 1984 | 635 votes (21% of total) | Read More

#3 | Strangeways, Here We Come | 1987 | 479 votes (16% of total) | Read More

#4 | Meat Is Murder | 1985 | 377 votes (12% of total)

#5 | Louder Than Bombs | 1987 | 221 votes (7% of total)

#6 | The Smiths | 1984 | 140 votes (5% of total) | Read More

#7 | The World Won’t Listen | 1987 | 54 votes (2% of total)

#8 | Rank (Live) | 1988 | 27 votes (<1% of total)

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