Best Albums of the 1960s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1960s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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1960s 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.
1960	596	26,748	Giant Steps (430th)by John Coltrane
1961	568	23,063	My Favorite Things (597th)by John Coltrane
1962	629	21,034	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,057th)by Ray Charles
1963	653	49,904	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (92nd)by Charles Mingus
1964	767	49,344	A Hard Day's Night (223rd)by The Beatles
1965	908	148,078	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	984	190,654	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,203	303,939	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (8th)by The Beatles
1968	1,566	228,071	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,953	349,339	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	9,827	1,390,174

The best artists of the 1960s were The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Led Zeppelin, The Doors and The Rolling Stones.

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25.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

1,007 charts

Rank Score:

10,192

Rank in 1967:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

148

Average Rating:

84 (1,088 votes)

Comments:

31.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

908 charts

Rank Score:

8,479

Rank in 1969:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

190

Average Rating:

84 (1,071 votes)

Comments:

41.

The Band

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

799 charts

Rank Score:

6,828

Rank in 1969:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

256

Average Rating:

81 (954 votes)

Comments:

43.

Music From Big Pink

The Band

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

760 charts

Rank Score:

5,976

Rank in 1968:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

298

Average Rating:

81 (938 votes)

Comments:

105.

Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

311 charts

Rank Score:

1,877

Rank in 1969:

Rank in 1960s:

105

Overall Rank:

959

Average Rating:

79 (389 votes)

Comments:

168.

Clouds

Joni Mitchell

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

203 charts

Rank Score:

998

Rank in 1969:

Rank in 1960s:

168

Overall Rank:

1,697

Average Rating:

78 (242 votes)

Comments:

242.

Song To A Seagull

Joni Mitchell

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

133 charts

Rank Score:

601

Rank in 1968:

Rank in 1960s:

242

Overall Rank:

2,591

Average Rating:

77 (163 votes)

Comments:

254.

Oar

Alexander Spence

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

137 charts

Rank Score:

564

Rank in 1969:

Rank in 1960s:

254

Overall Rank:

2,737

Average Rating:

76 (120 votes)

Comments:

259.

Neil Young

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

160 charts

Rank Score:

546

Rank in 1968:

Rank in 1960s:

259

Overall Rank:

2,808

Average Rating:

74 (261 votes)

Comments:

266.

Night Train

The Oscar Peterson Trio

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

113 charts

Rank Score:

521

Rank in 1963:

Rank in 1960s:

266

Overall Rank:

2,904

Average Rating:

77 (111 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	56	6%
1961	62	6%
1962	49	5%
1963	50	5%
1964	67	7%
1965	94	9%
1966	100	10%
1967	140	14%
1968	194	19%
1969	188	19%

Artist	Albums	%

The Beatles	17	2%
The Beach Boys	15	2%
The Rolling Stones	14	1%
John Coltrane	13	1%
Miles Davis	12	1%
Bob Dylan	10	1%
Nina Simone	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	632	63%
	208	21%
	33	3%
	25	3%
	24	2%
	16	2%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	968	97%
Yes	32	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	960	96%
Yes	40	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	983	98%
Yes	17	2%

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