Top-rated albums of 1959 Listed below are the top-rated albums of 1959 as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members! (To qualify for this chart, an album must have had at least 10 member ratings.)
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Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 457 charts Rank in 1959: 1 Rank Score: 21,313 Rank in 1950s 1 Overall Rank: 44 Download / Buy Kind Of Blue on MP3:
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2. Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 96 charts Rank in 1959: 2 Rank Score: 2,608 Rank in 1950s 3 Overall Rank: 445 Download / Buy Mingus Ah Um on MP3:
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3. Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 96 charts Rank in 1959: 3 Rank Score: 2,274 Rank in 1950s 4 Overall Rank: 512 Download / Buy Time Out on MP3:
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4. Chuck Berry Is On Top Chuck Berry
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 53 charts Rank in 1959: 5 Rank Score: 1,009 Rank in 1950s 13 Overall Rank: 1,050 Download / Buy Chuck Berry Is On Top on MP3:
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5. The Shape Of Jazz To Come Ornette Coleman Trio
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 59 charts Rank in 1959: 4 Rank Score: 1,632 Rank in 1950s 7 Overall Rank: 690 Download / Buy The Shape Of Jazz To Come on MP3:
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6. Moanin' Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 38 charts Rank in 1959: 7 Rank Score: 532 Rank in 1950s 21 Overall Rank: 1,788 Download / Buy Moanin' on MP3: No MP3 preview available.
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7. Moanin' In The Moonlight Howlin' Wolf
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 47 charts Rank in 1959: 6 Rank Score: 843 Rank in 1950s 16 Overall Rank: 1,233 Download / Buy Moanin' In The Moonlight on MP3:
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8. The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 36 charts Rank in 1959: 8 Rank Score: 414 Rank in 1950s 31 Overall Rank: 2,188 Download / Buy The Genius Of Ray Charles on MP3:
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9. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 13 charts Rank in 1959: 13 Rank Score: 174 Rank in 1950s 64 Overall Rank: 4,315 Download / Buy Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook on MP3:
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10. Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Marty Robbins
Year of Release: 1959 Appears in: 18 charts Rank in 1959: 10 Rank Score: 325 Rank in 1950s 37 Overall Rank: 2,635 Download / Buy Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs on MP3:
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The average rating is a Bayesian average, calculated as follows:
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV
where:
av = mean average rating an album has currently received.
n = number of ratings an album has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an album to appear in the 'top-rated' chart (currently 20).
AV = the site mean average rating for an album (currently 76/100).