Top 10 Music Albums of the 1950s
by weedygonsalez 
A whole bunch of wonderful things happened to music in the 1950's. Unfortunately, very few of these wonderful things could accurately be chronicled by an album-oriented site, since much of it occurred in a segregated market still dominated by the influence of singles and radio. Still, I'll try to represent, as best I can, some of these changes and their accompanying highlights in the album game.
ALSO, and I am perfectly aware that this is cheating, but I am going to include a brief list of my Best Songs Ever in this space because A) there isn't a chart for songs yet and probably never will be, and B) there isn't anything else really going on in this space. Unordered until further notice:
* Dan Deacon - Wham City
* Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell
* The Zombies - Care For Cell 44
* Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
* My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
* LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
* Kanye West - POWER
* Sufjan Stevens - John My Beloved
* Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
* The Mountain Goats - There Will Be No Divorce
* Gil Scott-Heron - Comment #1
* John Coltrane - Giant Steps
* Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
* Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
* Daft Punk - Digital Love
* Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
* Prince - Kiss
* Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
* Deerhunter - Helicopter
* Basement Jaxx - Romeo
* The Beatles - Taxman
* Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline
* Louis Logic - The Great Divide
* Pixies - Debaser
* Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
* Ghostface - Shakey Dog
* Lungfish - Space Orgy
* Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks
* Built to Spill - Big Dipper
* Weezer - Across the Sea
* Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
* Miles Davis - Shhhh/Peaceful
* Portishead - Glory Box
* The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
* Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
* Cutty Ranks - Limb by Limb
* Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
* The Bug (ft. Flowdan) - Skang
* The-Dream - Yamaha
* Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy
* Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
* Thao Nguyen - Bag of Hammers
* The Weeknd - The Morning
* Bell Biv Devoe - Poison
* N.O.R.E. - Nothin'
* Sean Paul - Like Glue
* Jane's Addictoin - Ocean Size
* Tom Waits - Downtown Train
* The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
* Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park
* GZA - 4th Chamber
* Low - Closer
* UGK ft. Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem
* Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
* The Jesus Lizard - Boilermaker
* Massive Attack - Angel
* Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours (Revisited)
* De La Soul - A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays
* TLC - Waterfalls
* Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow
* David Bowie - Be My Wife
* 2Pac - Temptations
* Ginuwine - Pony
* Galaxie 500 - Decomposing Trees
* Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity
* Waka Flocka Flame - Hard in Da Paint
* The Pharcyde - Ya Mama
* Bone Thungs-N-Harmony - 1st of Tha Month
* The KLF - What Time is Love
* Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
* Young Marble Giants - Searching for Mr. Right
* D'Angelo - The Line
* R.E.M. - Nightswimming
* Mission of Burma - Dead Pool
* Foo Fighters - Everlong
* Bjork - Joga
* Geto Boys - Mind Playin Tricks on Me
* Beastie Boys - Shadrach
* Titus Andronicus - My Eating Disorder
* Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
* The Walkmen - The Rat
* Notorious B.I.G. - Things Done Changed
* Radiohead - The National Anthem
* Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
* Bingo Gazingo & His Robot Friend - You're Out of the Computer
* Chvurches - Gun
- Chart updated: 07/01/2015 04:45
- (Created: 12/05/2011 13:55).
- Chart size: 10 albums.
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[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
Year of Release:
1959
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Rank Score:
6,958
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[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
Year of Release:
1958
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Rank Score:
5,574
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Year of Release:
1957
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Rank Score:
4,175
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[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
Year of Release:
1957
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Rank Score:
2,502
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[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
Year of Release:
1959
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3,867
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Most blues smashes released in the '50s came out on smaller formats than LPs, only to be compiled in the later decades, so consider this a stand-in for the absolute musical juggernaut of Chicago Blues in the 1950s. Muddy Waters is perhaps the best-known artist to emerge from that scene, with damn good reason. He was the seventh son of a seventh son before anyone in Iron Maiden was even born.
[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
Year of Release:
1958
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Rank Score:
807
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[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
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Total albums: 10. Page 1 of 1
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Top 10 Music Albums of the 1950s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1951 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1952 | 1 | 10% | |
| 1953 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1954 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1955 | 1 | 10% | |
| 1956 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1957 | 2 | 20% | |
| 1958 | 2 | 20% | |
| 1959 | 3 | 30% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Little Richard | 1 | 10% | |
| Miles Davis | 1 | 10% | |
| Ornette Coleman | 1 | 10% | |
| Muddy Waters | 1 | 10% | |
| Sun Ra And The Arkestra | 1 | 10% | |
| Stan Getz / Lionel Hampton | 1 | 10% | |
| Horace Silver | 1 | 10% | |
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Top 10 Music Albums of the 1950s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 1 from 9th to 8thSound Of Joy by Sun Ra And The Arkestra |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 8th to 9thHamp & Getz by Stan Getz / Lionel Hampton |
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