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 53,000 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	591	26,519	Giant Steps (442nd)by John Coltrane
1961	554	23,024	My Favorite Things (585th)by John Coltrane
1962	624	20,792	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,112th)by Ray Charles
1963	645	49,921	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (92nd)by Charles Mingus
1964	760	48,913	A Hard Day's Night (234th)by The Beatles
1965	895	148,614	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	975	192,319	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,201	306,365	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (7th)by The Beatles
1968	1,562	228,769	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,941	349,941	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	9,748	1,395,176

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.

Boz Scaggs

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

41 charts

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992.

The Circle Game

Tom Rush

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

20 charts

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993.

Tauhid

Pharoah Sanders

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

29 charts

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994.

Empty Sky

Elton John

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

42 charts

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995.

Léo Ferré 1916-19...

Léo Ferré

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3 charts

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995

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14,128

Average Rating:

72 (3 votes)

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996.

Braziliana

Luiz Bonfá & Maria Toledo

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

7 charts

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996

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14,138

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71 (13 votes)

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997.

Art Of The Prima Donna

Joan Sutherland

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

4 charts

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997

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14,149

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73 (7 votes)

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998.

The Nat King Cole Story

Nat King Cole

Year of Release:

1961

Appears in:

16 charts

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998

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14,151

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68 (24 votes)

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999.

The Progressive Blues Experiment

Johnny Winter

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

32 charts

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H. P. Lovecraft II

H. P. Lovecraft

Year of Release:

1968

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30 charts

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	56	6%
1961	62	6%
1962	48	5%
1963	50	5%
1964	66	7%
1965	92	9%
1966	99	10%
1967	141	14%
1968	195	20%
1969	191	19%

Artist	Albums	%

The Beatles	17	2%
The Beach Boys	14	1%
The Rolling Stones	14	1%
John Coltrane	13	1%
Miles Davis	12	1%
Bob Dylan	10	1%
Nina Simone	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	630	63%
	209	21%
	33	3%
	25	3%
	22	2%
	16	2%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	968	97%
Yes	32	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	960	96%
Yes	40	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	983	98%
Yes	17	2%

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