Best Albums of 1940

Listed below are the best albums of 1940 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 55,000 greatest album charts.

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1940 year summaryThe best artists of 1940 were Woody Guthrie, Bessie Smith, Arnold Schoenberg / Erika Stiedry-Wagner / Stefan Auber / Kalman Bloch / Leonard Posella / Eduard Steuermann / Rudolf Kolisch, Josh White, Louis Armstrong, Leopold Stokowski / Philadelphia Orchestra / Sergei Rachmaninov, Woody Herman And His Orchestra, Woody Herman, Marlene Dietrich and Igor Stravinsky / The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York.
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1940
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394
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Year of Release:
1940
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331
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1940
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121
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Buy album United States
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Year of Release:
1940
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90
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Year of Release:
1940
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86
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1940
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81
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1940
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71
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1940
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66
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Year of Release:
1940
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54
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1940
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49
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Total albums: 29. Page 1 of 3

Best Albums of 1940 composition

Country Albums %


United States 22 76%
United Kingdom 2 7%
Mixed Nationality 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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