The American online music publication Pitchfork assigns scores using a decimal scale of 0.0 to 10.0. It has awarded a perfect score to more than 150 albums, most in retrospective reviews of classic albums or reissues. According to Rob Harvilla of The Ringer, a perfect Pitchfork score given to an album on release "qualifies as a seismic event for the rock-critic universe as a whole". Artists whose albums have received perfect scores on release include Radiohead, Fiona Apple, Kanye West, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead and Wilco.
Compilation albums that received a perfect score on release, such as The Smile Sessions, are listed in both the "Awarded on release" and "Reissue" columns.