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	735	27,506	Giant Steps (433rd)by John Coltrane
1961	659	23,049	My Favorite Things (607th)by John Coltrane
1962	674	21,319	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,084th)by Ray Charles
1963	698	49,558	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	805	49,637	A Hard Day's Night (223rd)by The Beatles
1965	951	145,827	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)by Bob Dylan
1966	1,036	187,394	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,225	300,188	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (8th)by The Beatles
1968	1,591	225,270	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,992	345,750	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,366	1,375,498

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.

We Are Paintermen

The Creation

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

33 charts

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992.

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Skip Bifferty

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

13 charts

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993.

First Songs

Michael Hurley

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

20 charts

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993

Overall Rank:

13,913

Average Rating:

71 (17 votes)

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994.

A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness

Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

9 charts

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994

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13,956

Average Rating:

73 (11 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.

Koko Taylor

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

15 charts

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998.

Folk Roots, New Routes

Davy Graham & Shirley Collins

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

28 charts

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998

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14,041

Average Rating:

75 (21 votes)

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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

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14,046

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:

14,053

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	52	5%
1964	71	7%
1965	94	9%
1966	98	10%
1967	139	14%
1968	192	19%
1969	190	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%
Bob Dylan	10	1%
Frank Sinatra	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	634	63%
	207	21%
	32	3%
	24	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	983	98%
Yes	18	2%

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