Best Albums of the 1960s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1960s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 55,000 greatest album charts.

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Year	Albums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts.	Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year)	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
1960	736	27,277	Giant Steps (434th)by John Coltrane
1961	670	23,187	My Favorite Things (598th)by John Coltrane
1962	686	21,350	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,077th)by Ray Charles
1963	704	49,442	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	806	49,822	A Hard Day's Night (218th)by The Beatles
1965	954	145,390	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)by Bob Dylan
1966	1,036	186,709	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,225	299,112	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (7th)by The Beatles
1968	1,593	224,367	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,994	344,712	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,404	1,371,367

The best artists of the 1960s were The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Led Zeppelin, The Doors and The Rolling Stones.

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991.

Breakfast At Tiffany's
Soundtrack

Henry Mancini

Year of Release:

1961

Appears in:

36 charts

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991

Overall Rank:

13,894

Average Rating:

70 (36 votes)

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992.

The Ark

Chad & Jeremy

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

13 charts

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993.

Angels And Demons At Play

Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

28 charts

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993

Overall Rank:

13,989

Average Rating:

73 (31 votes)

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994.

Sings Big Bill

Muddy Waters

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

30 charts

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994

Overall Rank:

14,032

Average Rating:

75 (27 votes)

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995.

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Skip Bifferty

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

13 charts

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996.

A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness

Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

9 charts

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996

Overall Rank:

14,094

Average Rating:

73 (11 votes)

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997.

Koko Taylor

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

15 charts

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998.

The Music Emporium

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

38 charts

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999.

Ceremony

Spooky Tooth

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

13 charts

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1000.

Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Kindertotenlieder

Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

5 charts

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1,000

Overall Rank:

14,144

Average Rating:

72 (7 votes)

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	56	6%
1961	60	6%
1962	49	5%
1963	52	5%
1964	71	7%
1965	92	9%
1966	98	10%
1967	139	14%
1968	192	19%
1969	191	19%

Artist	Albums	%

The Beatles	17	2%
The Beach Boys	15	2%
The Rolling Stones	14	1%
John Coltrane	13	1%
Miles Davis	12	1%
Bob Dylan	10	1%
Nina Simone	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	633	63%
	207	21%
	33	3%
	24	2%
	24	2%
	16	2%
	12	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	969	97%
Yes	31	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	961	96%
Yes	39	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	981	98%
Yes	19	2%

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