King Louis
by Louis Armstrong

King Louis by Louis Armstrong
Year: 1940
Overall rank: 10,376th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 13 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1940 (4th)
Award Top 50 albums of the 1940s (41st)
Award Best albums of all time (10,376th)

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Louis Armstrong bestography

King Louis is ranked 6th best out of 77 albums by Louis Armstrong on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Louis Armstrong is Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy which is ranked number 4522 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 311.

Louis Armstrong album bestography « Higher ranked (9,733rd)
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This album (10,376th)
King Louis
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(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 10,376th | 1940s rank: 41st | 1940 rank: 4th

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Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 13 votes)
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01/27/2026 00:41 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,79370/100
 
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12/17/2025 12:12 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  2,62884/100
 
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03/24/2023 23:14 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,79163/100
 
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10/31/2022 11:39 jonny5244  Ratings distribution  8,43363/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.4/100, a mean average of 67.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.3.

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Best Albums of 1940
1. Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 1 by Woody Guthrie
2. Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 2 by Woody Guthrie
3. Empress Of The Blues by Bessie Smith
4. King Louis by Louis Armstrong
5. Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg / Erika Stiedry-Wagner / Stefan Auber / Kalman Bloch / Leonard Posella / Eduard Steuermann / Rudolf Kolisch
6. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor by Leopold Stokowski / Philadelphia Orchestra / Sergei Rachmaninov
7. Blues On Parade by Woody Herman And His Orchestra
8. Marlene Dietrich by Marlene Dietrich
9. Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky / The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York
10. Chain Gang by Joshua White And His Carolinians
11. Harlem Blues by Josh White
12. Harlem Seen Through Calypso Eyes by Wilmoth Houdini & His Royal Calypso Orchestra
13. The South American Way by Carmen Miranda
14. At The Piano by Count Basie
15. Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 In D Minor For Piano & Orchestra by Albert Coates / The London Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Horowitz
16. Piano Solos by Art Tatum
17. Decca Presents Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy And Bess by Various Artists
18. Beethoven: Concerto In D Major For Violin And Orchestra by Arturo Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra / Jascha Heifetz
19. Jazz As It Should Be Played by Bix Beiderbecke
20. The Voice Of Ma Rainey by Ma Rainey
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