Top-ranked artists of the 1960s

The top-ranked artists of the 1960s that appear most prominently in over 53,000 greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com are listed below:

N.B. Artist from before the mid-1960s may not be as well represented in this chart, because this chart only takes into account their albums. (Before that time, singles were far more prevalent than albums).

Rank	Artist	Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring in the greatest album charts.	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart.	Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
1	The Beatles	68	Abbey Road (3rd)	288,505
2	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	115,987
3	Jimi Hendrix	67	Are You Experienced (39th)	102,774
4	Bob Dylan	78	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)	91,382
5	The Beach Boys	72	Pet Sounds (11th)	53,135
6	The Jimi Hendrix Experience (See also Jimi Hendrix)	23	Are You Experienced (39th)	51,387
7	The Velvet Underground & Nico (See also The Velvet Underground)	1	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	46,102
8	Led Zeppelin	23	Led Zeppelin II (43rd)	41,587
9	The Doors	45	The Doors (30th)	40,693
10	The Rolling Stones	99	Let It Bleed (62nd)	39,783
11	King Crimson	88	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	31,666
12	John Coltrane	81	A Love Supreme (75th)	31,337
13	Frank Zappa	115	Hot Rats (222nd)	25,389
14	The Kinks	60	The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (151st)	23,731
15	Love	18	Forever Changes (72nd)	18,937
16	Van Morrison	57	Astral Weeks (68th)	17,958
17	Charles Mingus	52	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (92nd)	17,328
18	Neil Young	90	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (196th)	17,241
19	Miles Davis	120	In A Silent Way (209th)	16,355
20	The Zombies	21	Odessey And Oracle (87th)	15,730

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