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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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	741	27,124	Giant Steps (430th)by John Coltrane
1961	675	22,941	My Favorite Things (601st)by John Coltrane
1962	706	21,521	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,083rd)by Ray Charles
1963	724	49,381	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	833	49,527	A Hard Day's Night (220th)by The Beatles
1965	967	144,069	Rubber Soul (27th)by The Beatles
1966	1,048	184,126	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,235	286,586	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (7th)by The Beatles
1968	1,600	232,263	The Beatles (The White Album) (14th)by The Beatles
1969	2,002	342,534	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,531	1,360,072

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.

A Drop Of The Hard Stuff

The Dubliners

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

26 charts

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992.

Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde

Karl Böhm

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

11 charts

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992

Overall Rank:

13,930

Average Rating:

71 (19 votes)

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993.

Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill

Muddy Waters

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

30 charts

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993

Overall Rank:

14,043

Average Rating:

75 (27 votes)

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994.

Green Street

Grant Green

Year of Release:

1961

Appears in:

31 charts

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994

Overall Rank:

14,046

Average Rating:

75 (22 votes)

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995.

European Echoes

Manfred Schoof

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

11 charts

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996.

The Ark

Chad & Jeremy

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

13 charts

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997.

The Nat King Cole Story

Nat King Cole

Year of Release:

1961

Appears in:

16 charts

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997

Overall Rank:

14,163

Average Rating:

68 (24 votes)

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998.

Angels And Demons At Play

Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

28 charts

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998

Overall Rank:

14,197

Average Rating:

73 (31 votes)

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999.

Koko Taylor

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

15 charts

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1000.

Empty Sky

Elton John

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

43 charts

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	56	6%
1961	62	6%
1962	49	5%
1963	51	5%
1964	68	7%
1965	91	9%
1966	98	10%
1967	140	14%
1968	193	19%
1969	192	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%
Frank Sinatra	10	1%
Bob Dylan	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	633	63%
	206	21%
	33	3%
	24	2%
	23	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	980	98%
Yes	20	2%

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