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	590	26,424	Giant Steps (448th)by John Coltrane
1961	553	22,769	My Favorite Things (584th)by John Coltrane
1962	623	20,777	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,109th)by Ray Charles
1963	644	50,098	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (92nd)by Charles Mingus
1964	756	48,790	A Hard Day's Night (230th)by The Beatles
1965	894	149,059	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	974	193,043	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,201	307,357	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (7th)by The Beatles
1968	1,562	228,889	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,942	350,937	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	9,739	1,398,141

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.

Tauhid

Pharoah Sanders

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

29 charts

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992.

Empty Sky

Elton John

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

42 charts

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993.

The Nat King Cole Story

Nat King Cole

Year of Release:

1961

Appears in:

16 charts

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993

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14,160

Average Rating:

68 (24 votes)

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994.

H. P. Lovecraft II

H. P. Lovecraft

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

30 charts

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995.

The Progressive Blues Experiment

Johnny Winter

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

32 charts

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996.

Forest

Forest (UK)

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

20 charts

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997.

Best Of Cream
Compilation

Cream

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

13 charts

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998.

That's My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues

John Lee Hooker

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

32 charts

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998

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14,251

Average Rating:

73 (24 votes)

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999.

Gilberto Gil (1969)

Gilberto Gil

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

25 charts

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1000.

Contact High

The Godz (Psychedelic)

Year of Release:

1966

Appears in:

28 charts

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1,000

Overall Rank:

14,263

Average Rating:

65 (28 votes)

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	55	6%
1961	61	6%
1962	48	5%
1963	50	5%
1964	66	7%
1965	92	9%
1966	99	10%
1967	141	14%
1968	194	19%
1969	194	19%

Artist	Albums	%

The Beatles	17	2%
The Beach Boys	14	1%
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	%

	627	63%
	211	21%
	33	3%
	26	3%
	22	2%
	16	2%
	13	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	967	97%
Yes	33	3%

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

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

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