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 (598th)by John Coltrane
1962	629	21,034	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,055th)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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991.

We Are Paintermen

The Creation

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

33 charts

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992.

Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Kindertotenlieder

Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

6 charts

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992

Overall Rank:

13,915

Average Rating:

72 (6 votes)

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993.

Braziliana

Luiz Bonfá & Maria Toledo

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

7 charts

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993

Overall Rank:

14,035

Average Rating:

72 (14 votes)

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994.

Folk Roots, New Routes

Davy Graham & Shirley Collins

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

27 charts

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994

Overall Rank:

14,052

Average Rating:

74 (21 votes)

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995.

Down To Earth

Stevie Wonder

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

35 charts

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996.

One

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

7 charts

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997.

Interplay

Bill Evans

Year of Release:

1962

Appears in:

17 charts

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997

Overall Rank:

14,084

Average Rating:

76 (14 votes)

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998.

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album

The Beach Boys

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

43 charts

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998

Overall Rank:

14,101

Average Rating:

66 (80 votes)

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999.

Léo Ferré (1969)

Léo Ferré

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

4 charts

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1000.

Agnetha Fältskog

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

5 charts

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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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