The Top 50 Albums of All Time
by Sound & Vision Magazine (2010) 
Sound & Vision is an American magazine, purchased by AVTech Media Ltd. in March 2018, covering home theater, audio, video and multimedia consumer products. Before 2000, it had been published for most of its history as Stereo Review. The magazine is headquartered in New York City. These are their best albums of all time. To help celebrate Sound & Vision Magazine's 50th-anniversary year, the editors and critics selected their "Top 50 Albums of All Time".
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Total albums: 50. Page 1 of 5
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The Top 50 Albums of All Time composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 21 | 42% | |
| 1970s | 22 | 44% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 2 | 4% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 4 | 8% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 8% | |
| The Who | 3 | 6% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 2 | 4% | |
| The Band | 2 | 4% | |
| Bob Dylan | 2 | 4% | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 2 | 4% | |
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Other overall charts
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| NME's Best Albums Of All Time | New Music Express | Overall chart | 1985 |  |
| Top 500 Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone | Overall chart | 2005 | |
| The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone | Overall chart | 2020 | |
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| The Top 50 Albums of All Time | Sound & Vision Magazine | Overall chart | 2010 | |
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gon2bed 07/08/2016 08:21 | #170863
This is suppose to be all time but yet they have 42% for the 60's and 44% for the 70's... Anyone who loves this pole is clearly biased to these decades. There's plenty of albums as good as these decades worth.
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saacsquatch 05/29/2012 02:39 | #43184
Boring and obsessed with the '60s and '70s, but nothing I actively dislike.
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EyeKanFly 06/30/2013 14:57 | #80120
EyeKanFly 06/30/2013 14:57 | #80120
Lots of good albums, pretty decent ranking order IMO, a few slightly atypical albums (John Barleycorn Must Die, Moby Grape), but overall WAY too biased on 60s/70s. This list is from 2008 and there's only 3 albums from after 1985? Really?
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alistamina 06/14/2010 16:25 | #12880
alistamina 06/14/2010 16:25 | #12880
Here are really great stuffs, but it is funny to see 43 albums from 60s & 70s. At Least got a little relieved to see 'Nevermind' and finally 'OK Computer'.
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Fedfan 10/18/2012 18:10 | #52677
wow, music died after the 70s here !
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