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 54,000 greatest album charts.

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1960s decade summary

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	735	27,454	Giant Steps (434th)by John Coltrane
1961	663	23,256	My Favorite Things (611th)by John Coltrane
1962	676	21,304	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,079th)by Ray Charles
1963	702	49,504	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	805	49,744	A Hard Day's Night (220th)by The Beatles
1965	952	145,622	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)by Bob Dylan
1966	1,036	187,057	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,225	299,875	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (7th)by The Beatles
1968	1,591	224,683	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,992	345,312	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,377	1,373,812

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.

Angels And Demons At Play

Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

28 charts

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991

Overall Rank:

13,906

Average Rating:

73 (31 votes)

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992.

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Skip Bifferty

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

13 charts

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993.

A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness

Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

9 charts

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993

Overall Rank:

13,988

Average Rating:

73 (11 votes)

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994.

First Songs

Michael Hurley

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

20 charts

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994

Overall Rank:

13,989

Average Rating:

71 (17 votes)

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995.

The Music Emporium

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

38 charts

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996.

Ceremony

Spooky Tooth

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

13 charts

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997.

Folk Roots, New Routes

Davy Graham & Shirley Collins

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

28 charts

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997

Overall Rank:

14,041

Average Rating:

75 (21 votes)

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998.

Koko Taylor

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

15 charts

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999.

Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Kindertotenlieder

Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

5 charts

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999

Overall Rank:

14,070

Average Rating:

72 (7 votes)

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1000.

Brahms: Symphonie Nr. 4

Herbert Von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

3 charts

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1,000

Overall Rank:

14,076

Average Rating:

73 (3 votes)

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	56	6%
1961	60	6%
1962	49	5%
1963	53	5%
1964	71	7%
1965	93	9%
1966	98	10%
1967	138	14%
1968	192	19%
1969	191	19%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	632	63%
	207	21%
	33	3%
	25	2%
	24	2%
	16	2%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	970	97%
Yes	31	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	962	96%
Yes	39	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	982	98%
Yes	19	2%

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