Best Albums of 1940

Listed below are the best albums of 1940 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 2 hours ago).
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1940 year summaryThe best artists of 1940 were Woody Guthrie, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Leopold Stokowski / Philadelphia Orchestra / Sergei Rachmaninov, Arnold Schoenberg / Erika Stiedry-Wagner / Stefan Auber / Kalman Bloch / Leonard Posella / Eduard Steuermann / Rudolf Kolisch, Josh White, Woody Herman, Woody Herman And His Orchestra, Marlene Dietrich and Igor Stravinsky / The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York.
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"The start of the folk revival, but much more. A stylistic decision made by lack of alternatives, but it automatically is the perfect style to express political critique. Other than other folk revivals it didn't originate from chauvinistic longing to simpler times, but rather from a need for chang..."  [+]  Reply
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Total albums: 33. Page 1 of 4

Best Albums of 1940 composition

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