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	729	27,088	Giant Steps (432nd)by John Coltrane
1961	631	23,050	My Favorite Things (606th)by John Coltrane
1962	668	21,309	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,094th)by Ray Charles
1963	691	49,598	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	800	49,455	A Hard Day's Night (220th)by The Beatles
1965	949	145,994	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)by Bob Dylan
1966	1,032	187,318	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,224	299,800	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (9th)by The Beatles
1968	1,588	225,437	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,991	345,521	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,303	1,374,569

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 Certain Smile A Certain Sadness

Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

9 charts

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991

Overall Rank:

13,876

Average Rating:

73 (11 votes)

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992.

First Songs

Michael Hurley

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

20 charts

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992

Overall Rank:

13,888

Average Rating:

71 (17 votes)

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993.

The Music Emporium

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

38 charts

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994.

We Are Paintermen

The Creation

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

33 charts

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995.

Ceremony

Spooky Tooth

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

13 charts

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996.

Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Kindertotenlieder

Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

5 charts

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996

Overall Rank:

13,989

Average Rating:

72 (7 votes)

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997.

Brahms: Symphonie Nr. 4

Herbert Von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

3 charts

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997

Overall Rank:

14,002

Average Rating:

73 (3 votes)

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998.

Koko Taylor

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

15 charts

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999.

Folk Roots, New Routes

Davy Graham & Shirley Collins

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

28 charts

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999

Overall Rank:

14,064

Average Rating:

75 (21 votes)

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1000.

Virgin Fugs

The Fugs

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

5 charts

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	56	6%
1961	60	6%
1962	50	5%
1963	52	5%
1964	71	7%
1965	93	9%
1966	98	10%
1967	141	14%
1968	191	19%
1969	189	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%
Frank Sinatra	10	1%
Bob Dylan	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	635	63%
	207	21%
	31	3%
	24	2%
	24	2%
	16	2%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	970	97%
Yes	31	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	961	96%
Yes	40	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	983	98%
Yes	18	2%

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