Best Albums of the 1940s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1940s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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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.
1940	69	1,774	Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 1 (3,749th)by Woody Guthrie
1941	75	1,346	The Midnight Special (And Other ... (4,443rd)by Lead Belly
1942	75	755	Her Second Album Of Piano Solos ... (8,705th)by Hazel Scott
1943	76	596	Songs By Lead Belly: Accompanied... (8,836th)by Lead Belly
1944	76	1,293	An Album Of Outstanding Arrangem... (4,944th)by Glenn Miller
1945	79	1,090	Merry Christmas (5,358th)by Bing Crosby
1946	102	1,815	The Voice Of Frank Sinatra (6,605th)by Frank Sinatra
1947	102	1,738	Teddy Wilson - Billie Holiday (5,190th)by Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra F...
1948	102	1,449	Chansons Des Cafés De Paris (5,902nd)by Édith Piaf
1949	104	1,980	Bird Blows The Blues (6,200th)by Charlie Parker
Total	860	13,837

The best artists of the 1940s were Woody Guthrie, Nat King Cole, Lead Belly, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Josh White, Louis Jordan, The King Cole Trio, The Original Broadway Cast and Hazel Scott.

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