Best Albums of the 1960s : Best Ever Albums

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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Abbey Road

The Beatles

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

3,071 charts

Rank Score:

153,378

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Average Rating:

91 (3,807 votes)

Comments:

389

Revolver

The Beatles

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

3,009 charts

Rank Score:

150,622

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Average Rating:

91 (3,823 votes)

Comments:

416

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

2,931 charts

Rank Score:

139,622

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Average Rating:

90 (3,836 votes)

Comments:

406

The Beatles (The White Album)

The Beatles

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

2,447 charts

Rank Score:

105,011

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Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

1,936 charts

Rank Score:

73,363

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Average Rating:

88 (2,796 votes)

Comments:

212

12.

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,595 charts

Rank Score:

52,822

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13.

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,577 charts

Rank Score:

50,346

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Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,424 charts

Rank Score:

41,032

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Average Rating:

86 (1,750 votes)

Comments:

103

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Led Zeppelin

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

1,404 charts

Rank Score:

39,033

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Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

1,236 charts

Rank Score:

38,011

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Average Rating:

85 (1,408 votes)

Comments:

109

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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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