Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s
by 
JMGL95 
FULLY UPDATED!
My first complete top 100 of the 60s after some weeks of discovering new albums and re-listening to old ones. Still some details to be added, though.
EXTRA: Favourite songs of the 60s (1 per artist) ->
1. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited)
2. David Bowie - Space Oddity (David Bowie)
3. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (Magical Mystery Tour)
4. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Pet Sound)
5. The Velvet Underground - Heroin (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
6. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (In the Court of the Crimson King)
7. Love - Alone Again Or (Forever Changes)
8. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Electric Ladyland)
9. Van Morrison - Madame George (Astral Weeks)
10. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
- Chart updated: 11/29/2023 17:45
- (Created: 04/11/2014 09:59).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Favourite songs: Strawberry Fields Forever, The Fool on the Hill, I Am The Walrus
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1967
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14,946
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Favourite songs: In the Court of the Crimson King, Epitaph, 21st Century Schizoid Man
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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28,276
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Favourite songs: "The Medley", Here Comes the Sun, Something
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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Rank Score:
57,545
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Favourite songs: Day Is Done, Time Has Told Me, River Man
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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Rank Score:
8,916
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Favourite songs: Like a Rolling Stone, Desolation Row, Ballad of a Thin Man
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1965
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27,469
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Favourite songs: For No One, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1966
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49,956
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Favourite songs: Hung Up on a Dream, Care of Cell 44, Beechwood Park
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1968
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13,892
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Favourite songs: Waitin' Around to Die; Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel; Lungs
[First added to this chart: 06/18/2017]
Year of Release:
1969
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2,366
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Favourite songs: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Good Times Bad Times, Dazed and Confused
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1969
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17,017
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Favourite songs: So Long, Marianne; The Stranger Song, Suzzane
[First added to this chart: 04/20/2014]
Year of Release:
1967
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9,697
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1960 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1961 | 1 | 1% | |
| 1962 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1963 | 2 | 2% | |
| 1964 | 4 | 4% | |
| 1965 | 15 | 15% | |
| 1966 | 15 | 15% | |
| 1967 | 19 | 19% | |
| 1968 | 17 | 17% | |
| 1969 | 27 | 27% |
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| The Beatles | 8 | 8% | |
| Bob Dylan | 6 | 6% | |
| The Kinks | 4 | 4% | |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 3 | 3% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 3 | 3% | |
| The Doors | 3 | 3% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 3% | |
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54 | 54% | |
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30 | 30% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s chart changes
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| Free For All by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
| Leavers |
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