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 54,000 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	683	26,971	Giant Steps (428th)by John Coltrane
1961	602	22,890	My Favorite Things (603rd)by John Coltrane
1962	632	21,096	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,063rd)by Ray Charles
1963	659	49,621	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	772	49,316	A Hard Day's Night (222nd)by The Beatles
1965	918	146,795	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	997	188,849	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,216	301,991	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (8th)by The Beatles
1968	1,573	226,765	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,976	347,362	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,028	1,381,656

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.

Sings Big Bill

Muddy Waters

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

30 charts

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991

Overall Rank:

13,926

Average Rating:

75 (27 votes)

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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:

13,929

Average Rating:

72 (6 votes)

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993.

Ask The Unicorn

Ed Askew

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

7 charts

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994.

Koko Taylor

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

15 charts

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995.

We Are Paintermen

The Creation

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

33 charts

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996.

The Idle Race

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

9 charts

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997.

Safe Mode: On

The Power Of The True Love Knot

Shirley Collins

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

17 charts

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998.

Satchmo Plays King Oliver

Louis Armstrong

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

7 charts

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998

Overall Rank:

14,028

Average Rating:

72 (14 votes)

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999.

Wake Up...It's Tomorrow

The Strawberry Alarm Clock

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

30 charts

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1000.

Folk Roots, New Routes

Davy Graham & Shirley Collins

Year of Release:

1964

Appears in:

27 charts

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1,000

Overall Rank:

14,097

Average Rating:

75 (21 votes)

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	57	6%
1961	60	6%
1962	49	5%
1963	51	5%
1964	68	7%
1965	93	9%
1966	98	10%
1967	142	14%
1968	193	19%
1969	189	19%

Artist	Albums	%

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

	631	63%
	208	21%
	33	3%
	24	2%
	24	2%
	16	2%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	970	97%
Yes	30	3%

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

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

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