Top 100 Music Albums of 1962
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- Chart updated: 10/22/2025 01:45
- (Created: 11/25/2016 17:43).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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1962
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1962
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1962 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 4 | 4% | |
| John Coltrane | 3 | 3% | |
| The Modern Jazz Quartet | 2 | 2% | |
| Charles Mingus | 2 | 2% | |
| Nina Simone | 2 | 2% | |
| Ella Fitzgerald | 2 | 2% | |
| Lightnin' Hopkins | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1962 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 30 from 37th to 7thHow My Heart Sings! by Bill Evans Trio |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 6th to 8thCaravan by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
| Down 2 from 7th to 9thGo by Dexter Gordon |
| Down 2 from 8th to 10thInta Somethin' by Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean |
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| Mosaic by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
| Leavers |
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| Bye Bye Blackbird by John Coltrane |
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| Best Artists of 1963 | |
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| 1. Charles Mingus | |
| 2. Bob Dylan | |
| 3. The Beatles | |
| 4. James Brown | |
| 5. Sam Cooke | |
| 6. Thelonious Monk | |
| 7. The Thelonious Monk Quartet | |
| 8. The Beach Boys | |
| 9. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | |
| 10. Duke Ellington / Charlie Mingus / Max Roach | |
| 11. Jorge Ben | |
| 12. Kenny Burrell | |
| 13. John Coltrane | |
| 14. Oscar Peterson Trio | |
| 15. Oscar Peterson | |
| 16. Roy Orbison | |
| 17. John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman | |
| 18. Herbert Von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker | |
| 19. John Coltrane Quartet | |
| 20. Jimmy Smith |


