Best Albums of the 1950s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1950s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 41,000 greatest album charts.

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1950s 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.
1950	88	3,862	The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Ja... (2,505th)by Benny Goodman
1951	116	3,441	Genius Of Modern Music: Volume 1 (3,157th)by Thelonious Monk
1952	138	5,902	Bird & Diz (2,294th)by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
1953	174	5,423	Black Coffee (2,127th)by Peggy Lee
1954	198	9,256	Chet Baker Sings (1,081st)by Chet Baker
1955	270	12,211	In The Wee Small Hours (405th)by Frank Sinatra
1956	358	28,163	Elvis Presley (411th)by Elvis Presley
1957	457	40,813	Blue Train (360th)by John Coltrane
1958	468	35,315	Lady In Satin (654th)by Billie Holiday
1959	486	79,544	Kind Of Blue (40th)by Miles Davis
Total	2,753	223,930

The best artists of the 1950s were Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Frank Sinatra, Charles Mingus, Elvis Presley, Art Blakey, Buddy Holly, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.

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991.

Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann

André Cluytens / Orchestre Et Choeur Du Théâtre National De L'Opéra-Comique

Year of Release:

1950

Appears in:

4 charts

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991

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35,122

Average Rating:

77 (2 votes)

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992.

Black, Brown & Beige (1958)

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra Featuring Mahalia Jackson

Year of Release:

1958

Appears in:

9 charts

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993.

Go Blow Your Horn

Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five

Year of Release:

1957

Appears in:

3 charts

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994.

The Jazz Workshop

George Russell

Year of Release:

1957

Appears in:

5 charts

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995.

Ataulfo Alves E Suas Pastoras

Ataulfo Alves

Year of Release:

1959

Appears in:

2 charts

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996.

Pal Joey

The 1951 Studio Cast

Year of Release:

1951

Appears in:

5 charts

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996

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35,270

Average Rating:

74 (2 votes)

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997.

Esta É Morgana

Morgana

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1958

Appears in:

1 chart

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998.

Dream Street

Peggy Lee

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1957

Appears in:

4 charts

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999.

Julie

Julie London

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1958

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5 charts

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1000.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 ('Year 1905')

Leopold Stokowski / Houston Symphony Orchestra

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1958

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3 charts

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Best Albums of the 1950s composition

Year	Albums	%

1950	40	4%
1951	42	4%
1952	52	5%
1953	57	6%
1954	69	7%
1955	89	9%
1956	123	12%
1957	158	16%
1958	182	18%
1959	189	19%

Artist	Albums	%

Billie Holiday	18	2%
Various Artists	16	2%
Frank Sinatra	16	2%
Sonny Rollins	15	1%
Miles Davis	15	1%
Ella Fitzgerald	12	1%
Sarah Vaughan	12	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	766	77%
	54	5%
	33	3%
	31	3%
	24	2%
	10	1%
	8	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	947	95%
Yes	54	5%

Live?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	11	1%

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