Best Albums of the 1950s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1950s 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.
1950	130	5,295	Voice Of The Xtabay (2,170th)by Yma Sumac
1951	141	4,292	Genius Of Modern Music (2,765th)by Thelonious Monk
1952	156	6,563	Bird & Diz (1,964th)by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
1953	198	6,698	Black Coffee With Peggy Lee (1,819th)by Peggy Lee
1954	237	11,201	Chet Baker Sings (675th)by Chet Baker
1955	345	15,196	In The Wee Small Hours (378th)by Frank Sinatra
1956	464	32,980	Elvis Presley (349th)by Elvis Presley
1957	590	39,825	Here's Little Richard (424th)by Little Richard
1958	609	48,405	Blue Train (328th)by John Coltrane
1959	657	81,904	Kind Of Blue (37th)by Miles Davis
Total	3,527	252,358

The best artists of the 1950s were Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Frank Sinatra, Charles Mingus, Elvis Presley, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, The Dave Brubeck Quartet and John Coltrane.

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991.

Six Montreal Poets

A.J.M. Smith / Leonard Cohen / Irving Layton / F.R. Scott / Louis Dudek / A.M. Klein

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1957

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2 charts

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992.

Moby Dick (Music From The Sound Track)
Soundtrack

Philip Sainton

Year of Release:

1956

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3 charts

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993.

Una Voz Y Una Guitarra

Atahualpa Yupanqui

Year of Release:

1953

Appears in:

2 charts

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993

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34,602

Average Rating:

70 (2 votes)

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994.

4, 5, And 6

Jackie McLean

Year of Release:

1956

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7 charts

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995.

Newport 1958

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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1958

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6 charts

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996.

Miles Davis Quartet

Miles Davis

Year of Release:

1954

Appears in:

7 charts

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996

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34,711

Average Rating:

72 (10 votes)

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997.

The Jazz Giants '56

Lester Young

Year of Release:

1956

Appears in:

6 charts

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998.

In Concert
Live

The Jazz Couriers

Year of Release:

1958

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2 charts

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999.

Gypsy

The Original Broadway Cast

Year of Release:

1959

Appears in:

9 charts

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1000.

Day By Night

Doris Day

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1957

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12 charts

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Best Albums of the 1950s composition

Year	Albums	%

1950	41	4%
1951	40	4%
1952	56	6%
1953	61	6%
1954	76	8%
1955	83	8%
1956	116	12%
1957	156	16%
1958	176	18%
1959	198	20%

Artist	Albums	%

Billie Holiday	18	2%
Miles Davis	16	2%
Frank Sinatra	15	1%
Sonny Rollins	15	1%
Various Artists	14	1%
Ella Fitzgerald	13	1%
Elvis Presley	12	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	783	78%
	35	3%
	32	3%
	28	3%
	18	2%
	12	1%
	11	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	947	94%
Yes	56	6%

Live?	Albums	%
No	964	96%
Yes	39	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	979	98%
Yes	24	2%

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