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	126	5,255	Voice Of The Xtabay (2,150th)by Yma Sumac
1951	142	4,238	Genius Of Modern Music (2,801st)by Thelonious Monk
1952	155	6,472	Bird & Diz (1,956th)by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
1953	197	6,714	Black Coffee With Peggy Lee (1,820th)by Peggy Lee
1954	233	11,063	Chet Baker Sings (678th)by Chet Baker
1955	342	14,952	In The Wee Small Hours (380th)by Frank Sinatra
1956	456	32,628	Elvis Presley (352nd)by Elvis Presley
1957	586	45,719	Blue Train (294th)by John Coltrane
1958	603	41,823	Lady In Satin (546th)by Billie Holiday
1959	649	81,793	Kind Of Blue (37th)by Miles Davis
Total	3,489	250,657

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

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751.

The Skyliners

Year of Release:

1959

Appears in:

5 charts

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752.

Jazz Classics Vol. 1

Sidney Bechet

Year of Release:

1950

Appears in:

9 charts

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752

Overall Rank:

26,766

Average Rating:

71 (10 votes)

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753.

Go, Champs, Go!

The Champs

Year of Release:

1958

Appears in:

10 charts

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754.

Folk Songs Of Courting And Complaint

Peggy Seeger

Year of Release:

1955

Appears in:

13 charts

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754

Overall Rank:

26,850

Average Rating:

69 (12 votes)

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755.

New Sounds In Modern Music Volume 2

Charlie Parker

Year of Release:

1951

Appears in:

9 charts

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755

Overall Rank:

26,905

Average Rating:

70 (8 votes)

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756.

A Winter Romance

Dean Martin

Year of Release:

1959

Appears in:

12 charts

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757.

Memorial Album

Fats Navarro

Year of Release:

1952

Appears in:

14 charts

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757

Overall Rank:

26,964

Average Rating:

73 (12 votes)

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758.

The Original Talking Union With The Almanac Singers And Other Union Songs With Pete Seeger & Chorus

Pete Seeger & Chorus / The Almanac Singers

Year of Release:

1955

Appears in:

9 charts

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758

Overall Rank:

26,972

Average Rating:

70 (6 votes)

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759.

Bean Bags

Milt Jackson & Coleman Hawkins

Year of Release:

1958

Appears in:

8 charts

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760.

Count Basie (1956)

Count Basie

Year of Release:

1956

Appears in:

9 charts

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760

Overall Rank:

27,089

Average Rating:

71 (9 votes)

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Best Albums of the 1950s composition

Year	Albums	%

1950	40	4%
1951	40	4%
1952	58	6%
1953	62	6%
1954	76	8%
1955	82	8%
1956	116	12%
1957	154	15%
1958	174	17%
1959	198	20%

Artist	Albums	%

Billie Holiday	18	2%
Miles Davis	16	2%
Sonny Rollins	15	2%
Frank Sinatra	15	2%
Various Artists	14	1%
Ella Fitzgerald	13	1%
Sarah Vaughan	11	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	780	78%
	34	3%
	33	3%
	27	3%
	19	2%
	13	1%
	11	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	944	94%
Yes	56	6%

Live?	Albums	%
No	962	96%
Yes	38	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	976	98%
Yes	24	2%

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