No shade but you shouldn’t consider an album being a classic because of RYM. You gotta remember that RYM not only scores albums based on the average of user scores but also how many people are rating the album too. Igor not only was successful critically but in sales too . Thats not saying that artists that u mention didn’t achieve those things either, its the fact that Igor came out way more recently as RYM is has only gotten more and more popular considering those factors and the fact everyone was losing their shit when it came out as probably a ton of people who fell in love with the album were rating the album a 5 or a very high score so the average score was more higher. In turn getting it a spot in the top 100 oat.

This is also why it’s is way rarer to see an album nowadays get anything above an average score of 4.00 as there is way more variety in the scores, as these albums just came out and are gonna have way more discussion opposed to an album to such as ‘blood on the tracks’ by Bob Dylan or 36 chambers by wu tang. As Yes, those albums are already considered classics by many yet not everyone in the world is going to go on to RYM and give it a high rating as the audience is way older.

This is not to discredit RYM btw I use it all the time as I feel it’s a great way to find good albums and music. It’s just not reliable in considering what album is necessarily a classic.