Best Albums of 1940

Listed below are the best albums of 1940 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 51,000 greatest album charts.

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1940 year summaryThe best artists of 1940 were Woody Guthrie, Bessie Smith, Josh White, Arnold Schoenberg / Erika Stiedry-Wagner / Stefan Auber / Kalman Bloch / Leonard Posella / Eduard Steuermann / Rudolf Kolisch, Leopold Stokowski / Philadelphia Orchestra / Sergei Rachmaninov, Louis Armstrong, Woody Herman, Marlene Dietrich, Woody Herman And His Orchestra and Joshua White And His Carolinians.
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Total albums: 29. Page 1 of 3

Best Albums of 1940 composition

Country Albums %


United States 22 76%
Mixed Nationality 2 7%
United Kingdom 2 7%
Portugal 1 3%
Trinidad and Tobago 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 27 93%
Yes 2 7%
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