Best Albums of the 1960s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1960s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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1960s decade summary

Year	Albums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts.	Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year)	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
1960	594	26,791	Giant Steps (435th)by John Coltrane
1961	559	23,072	My Favorite Things (592nd)by John Coltrane
1962	625	20,840	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,113th)by Ray Charles
1963	647	50,033	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (92nd)by Charles Mingus
1964	763	49,198	A Hard Day's Night (226th)by The Beatles
1965	902	148,901	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	976	192,299	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,200	307,236	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (8th)by The Beatles
1968	1,562	229,643	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,942	351,803	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	9,770	1,399,817

The best artists of the 1960s were The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Led Zeppelin, The Doors and The Rolling Stones.

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