Best Albums of the 1960s : Best Ever Albums

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Best Albums of the 1960s

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Listed below are the greatest 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	372	25,580	Sketches Of Spain (512th) by Miles Davis
1961	388	22,824	My Favorite Things (748th) by John Coltrane
1962	419	16,936	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,305th) by Ray Charles
1963	458	68,379	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (137th) by Charles Mingus
1964	532	57,151	A Hard Day's Night (229th) by The Beatles
1965	627	269,018	Highway 61 Revisited (21st) by Bob Dylan
1966	696	385,824	Revolver (4th) by The Beatles
1967	930	603,141	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (5th) by The Beatles
1968	1,167	387,746	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th) by The Beatles
1969	1,432	608,067	Abbey Road (3rd) by The Beatles
Total	7,021	2,444,665

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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United Kingdom

Year of Release:

1969

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16,074

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81 (1,218 votes)

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32.

Trout Mask Replica

United States

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

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1969

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14,800

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Five Leaves Left

United Kingdom

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1969

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14,766

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Axis: Bold As Love

United States

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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1967

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13,593

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83 (1,115 votes)

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Canada

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1969

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12,970

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United Kingdom

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1965

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12,944

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81 (1,553 votes)

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United Kingdom

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1967

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12,512

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A Hard Day's Night

United Kingdom

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1964

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12,385

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81 (1,511 votes)

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Canada

Neil Young With Crazy Horse

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1969

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12,303

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United States

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1969

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12,050

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Best Albums of the 1960s composition

Year	Albums	%

1960	35	4%
1961	47	5%
1962	38	4%
1963	55	6%
1964	64	6%
1965	93	9%
1966	103	10%
1967	142	14%
1968	192	19%
1969	231	23%

Artist	Albums	%

The Beatles	15	2%
The Rolling Stones	14	1%
The Beach Boys	14	1%
Frank Sinatra	13	1%
Nina Simone	12	1%
John Coltrane	12	1%
Miles Davis	10	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	599	60%
	223	22%
	34	3%
	33	3%
	21	2%
	14	1%
	13	1%
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