Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s
by Exist-en-ciel 
Favorite songs of the decade:
• Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley (1958)
• Better Git It in Your Soul - Charles Mingus (1959)
• Blue Train - John Coltrane (1958)
• Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman (1959)
• Moanin' - Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (1958)
• My Baby Just Cares for me - Nina Simone (1959)
• So What - Miles Davis (1959)
• St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins (1957)
• Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday (1956)
• Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
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- (Created: 12/10/2025 09:13).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Year of Release:
1959
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20,839
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1956
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918
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1959
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6,749
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1958
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3,537
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Year of Release:
1958
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5,389
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Year of Release:
1959
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3,836
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Year of Release:
1959
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6,314
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Year of Release:
1957
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2,695
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1950 | 4 | 4% | |
| 1951 | 4 | 4% | |
| 1952 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1953 | 4 | 4% | |
| 1954 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1955 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1956 | 16 | 16% | |
| 1957 | 15 | 15% | |
| 1958 | 20 | 20% | |
| 1959 | 19 | 19% |
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| Miles Davis | 3 | 3% | |
| Ella Fitzgerald | 3 | 3% | |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 3% | |
| Billie Holiday | 3 | 3% | |
| Charles Mingus | 3 | 3% | |
| Clifford Brown & Max Roach | 3 | 3% | |
| Art Blakey | 3 | 3% | |
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84 | 84% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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