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 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.
1950	122	5,214	Voice Of The Xtabay (2,056th)by Yma Sumac
1951	140	4,224	Genius Of Modern Music (2,769th)by Thelonious Monk
1952	150	6,851	Bird & Diz (1,987th)by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
1953	193	6,468	Black Coffee With Peggy Lee (1,854th)by Peggy Lee
1954	229	11,179	Chet Baker Sings (674th)by Chet Baker
1955	322	14,876	In The Wee Small Hours (381st)by Frank Sinatra
1956	434	32,554	Elvis Presley (365th)by Elvis Presley
1957	564	45,408	Blue Train (300th)by John Coltrane
1958	564	41,280	Lady In Satin (566th)by Billie Holiday
1959	608	82,094	Kind Of Blue (37th)by Miles Davis
Total	3,326	250,146

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

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851.

New Sounds Of Africa

Spokes Mashiyane / Miriam Makeba / Leo De Lyon

Year of Release:

1959

Appears in:

4 charts

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852.

The Man With The Golden Arm (Soundtrack)
Soundtrack

Elmer Bernstein

Year of Release:

1956

Appears in:

6 charts

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853.

Plenty Valente!

Caterina Valente

Year of Release:

1957

Appears in:

4 charts

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854.

Puente In Percussion

Tito Puente

Year of Release:

1956

Appears in:

8 charts

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855.

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Playboys

Chet Baker & Art Pepper

Year of Release:

1958

Appears in:

15 charts

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856.

Jazz At Storyville

The Stan Getz Quintette

Year of Release:

1952

Appears in:

10 charts

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856

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30,438

Average Rating:

69 (7 votes)

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857.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Arturo Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra

Year of Release:

1951

Appears in:

9 charts

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857

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30,494

Average Rating:

73 (6 votes)

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858.

New Faces New Sounds

Lou Donaldson

Year of Release:

1952

Appears in:

8 charts

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858

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30,515

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71 (8 votes)

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859.

Brahms: Concerto In D, Op. 77 For Violin And Orchestra

Wilhelm Furtwängler / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Yehudi Menuhin

Year of Release:

1950

Appears in:

4 charts

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859

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30,523

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70 (6 votes)

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860.

Camino Del Indio

Atahualpa Yupanqui

Year of Release:

1957

Appears in:

4 charts

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Best Albums of the 1950s composition

Year	Albums	%

1950	40	4%
1951	40	4%
1952	58	6%
1953	62	6%
1954	76	8%
1955	86	9%
1956	118	12%
1957	152	15%
1958	174	17%
1959	194	19%

Artist	Albums	%

Various Artists	19	2%
Billie Holiday	18	2%
Miles Davis	16	2%
Sonny Rollins	15	2%
Frank Sinatra	15	2%
Ella Fitzgerald	13	1%
Sarah Vaughan	11	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	779	78%
	40	4%
	31	3%
	26	3%
	21	2%
	12	1%
	10	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	943	94%
Yes	57	6%

Live?	Albums	%
No	963	96%
Yes	37	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	977	98%
Yes	23	2%

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