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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 39,000 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	384	26,094	Sketches Of Spain (507th)by Miles Davis
1961	406	23,297	King Of The Delta Blues Singers (759th)by Robert Johnson
1962	436	18,251	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,272nd)by Ray Charles
1963	461	68,948	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (135th)by Charles Mingus
1964	543	57,640	A Hard Day's Night (234th)by The Beatles
1965	652	271,773	Highway 61 Revisited (21st)by Bob Dylan
1966	711	389,677	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	939	606,402	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (5th)by The Beatles
1968	1,201	391,212	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,449	614,102	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	7,182	2,467,397

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

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Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

1,964 charts

Rank Score:

77,079

Rank in 1965:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

Average Rating:

89 (2,355 votes)

Comments:

189

10.

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

1,627 charts

Rank Score:

60,847

Rank in 1966:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

Average Rating:

88 (2,012 votes)

Comments:

141

21.

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

995 charts

Rank Score:

25,358

Rank in 1965:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

103

Average Rating:

86 (1,387 votes)

Comments:

28.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1963

Appears in:

785 charts

Rank Score:

17,056

Rank in 1963:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

160

Average Rating:

84 (1,231 votes)

Comments:

64.

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

429 charts

Rank Score:

5,246

Rank in 1964:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

525

Average Rating:

80 (756 votes)

Comments:

91.

Nashville Skyline

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

318 charts

Rank Score:

2,854

Rank in 1969:

Rank in 1960s:

Overall Rank:

905

Average Rating:

77 (586 votes)

Comments:

100.

John Wesley Harding

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

327 charts

Rank Score:

2,662

Rank in 1967:

Rank in 1960s:

100

Overall Rank:

978

Average Rating:

78 (594 votes)

Comments:

107.

Another Side Of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

274 charts

Rank Score:

2,335

Rank in 1964:

Rank in 1960s:

107

Overall Rank:

1,098

Average Rating:

78 (469 votes)

Comments:

195.

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1962

Appears in:

165 charts

Rank Score:

978

Rank in 1962:

Rank in 1960s:

195

Overall Rank:

2,263

Average Rating:

72 (357 votes)

Comments:

387.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Compilation

Bob Dylan

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

49 charts

Rank Score:

318

Rank in 1967:

Rank in 1960s:

387

Overall Rank:

5,456

Average Rating:

81 (152 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	38	4%
1961	48	5%
1962	41	4%
1963	55	6%
1964	65	7%
1965	91	9%
1966	103	10%
1967	145	15%
1968	189	19%
1969	225	23%

Artist	Albums	%

The Beatles	15	2%
The Rolling Stones	14	1%
Frank Sinatra	14	1%
The Beach Boys	14	1%
John Coltrane	13	1%
Nina Simone	11	1%
Miles Davis	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	600	60%
	225	23%
	33	3%
	33	3%
	19	2%
	14	1%
	13	1%
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