Best Albums of the 1950s : Best Ever Albums

Best Albums of the 1950s

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Listed below are the greatest albums of the 1950s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 9,700 greatest album charts.

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1950s 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.
1950	15	1,248	The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (2,787th) by Benny Goodman
1951	12	539	Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (4,743rd) by Thelonious Monk
1952	18	1,656	Anthology Of American Folk Music (2,422nd) by Various Artists
1953	15	1,417	Ellington Uptown (3,378th) by Duke Ellington
1954	26	2,016	Sarah Vaughan (1,856th) by Sarah Vaughan
1955	34	3,077	In The Wee Small Hours (620th) by Frank Sinatra
1956	56	10,991	Elvis Presley (346th) by Elvis Presley
1957	87	11,657	Here's Little Richard (602nd) by Little Richard
1958	95	8,351	Lady In Satin (1,014th) by Billie Holiday
1959	96	34,856	Kind Of Blue (43rd) by Miles Davis
Total	454	75,809

The best bands of the 1950s were Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Charles Mingus, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Little Richard, Billie Holiday, Ornette Coleman Trio, John Coltrane and Chuck Berry.

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Band

41.

King Creole

Elvis Presley

Year of Release:	1958	Appears in:	16 charts
Rank in 1958:	6	Rank Score:	268
Rank in 1950s	41	Overall Rank:	3,064
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42.

Songs For Distingué Lovers

Billie Holiday

Year of Release:	1957	Appears in:	16 charts
Rank in 1957:	9	Rank Score:	265
Rank in 1950s	42	Overall Rank:	3,100
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43.

The Best Of Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

Year of Release:	1958	Appears in:	15 charts
Rank in 1958:	7	Rank Score:	264
Rank in 1950s	43	Overall Rank:	3,113
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44.

Bo Diddley

Year of Release:	1958	Appears in:	29 charts
Rank in 1958:	8	Rank Score:	261
Rank in 1950s	44	Overall Rank:	3,134
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45.

Mambo!

Yma Sumac

Year of Release:	1954	Appears in:	9 charts
Rank in 1954:	3	Rank Score:	259
Rank in 1950s	45	Overall Rank:	3,146
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46.

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

Year of Release:	1957	Appears in:	19 charts
Rank in 1957:	10	Rank Score:	249
Rank in 1950s	46	Overall Rank:	3,264
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47.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Year of Release:	1958	Appears in:	20 charts
Rank in 1958:	9	Rank Score:	248
Rank in 1950s	47	Overall Rank:	3,277
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48.

Ellington Uptown

Duke Ellington

Year of Release:	1953	Appears in:	20 charts
Rank in 1953:	1	Rank Score:	237
Rank in 1950s	48	Overall Rank:	3,382
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49.

Black Coffee

Peggy Lee

Year of Release:	1953	Appears in:	10 charts
Rank in 1953:	2	Rank Score:	237
Rank in 1950s	49	Overall Rank:	3,385
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50.

Porgy And Bess

Miles Davis

Year of Release:	1958	Appears in:	20 charts
Rank in 1958:	10	Rank Score:	237
Rank in 1950s	50	Overall Rank:	3,391
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Best Albums of the 1950s composition

Year	Albums	%

1950	14	1%
1951	10	1%
1952	16	2%
1953	14	1%
1954	22	2%
1955	29	3%
1956	46	5%
1957	75	8%
1958	85	9%
1959	88	9%

Band	Albums	%

Miles Davis	16	2%
Frank Sinatra	12	1%
Thelonious Monk	11	1%
Elvis Presley	9	1%
Ella Fitzgerald	9	1%
Billie Holiday	9	1%
Nat King Cole	6	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	353	35%
	8	1%
	8	1%
	8	1%
	4	0%
	3	0%
	3	0%
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