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	26,886	Giant Steps (428th)by John Coltrane
1961	602	22,894	My Favorite Things (604th)by John Coltrane
1962	631	21,100	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,063rd)by Ray Charles
1963	659	49,639	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (93rd)by Charles Mingus
1964	770	49,328	A Hard Day's Night (222nd)by The Beatles
1965	917	146,919	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	997	188,997	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,216	302,177	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (8th)by The Beatles
1968	1,573	226,895	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,976	347,711	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	10,024	1,382,545

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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731.

Bratříčku, Zavírej Vrátka

Karel Kryl

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

11 charts

Rank Score:

118

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732.

Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas

Víctor Jara

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

34 charts

Rank Score:

118

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733.

Work Song

Nat Adderley

Year of Release:

1960

Appears in:

25 charts

Rank Score:

118

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733

Overall Rank:

9,987

Average Rating:

74 (26 votes)

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734.

Matthew & Son

Cat Stevens

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

39 charts

Rank Score:

118

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735.

Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village
Live

Albert Ayler

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

24 charts

Rank Score:

118

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736.

The Natch'l Blues

Taj Mahal

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

38 charts

Rank Score:

118

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737.

We Get Requests

The Oscar Peterson Trio

Year of Release:

1965

Appears in:

16 charts

Rank Score:

118

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737

Overall Rank:

10,033

Average Rating:

75 (13 votes)

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738.

Milton Nascimento

Year of Release:

1967

Appears in:

20 charts

Rank Score:

117

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739.

Magic Bus: The Who On Tour
Compilation

The Who

Year of Release:

1968

Appears in:

38 charts

Rank Score:

117

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740.

Ode To Quetzalcoatl

Dave Bixby

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

30 charts

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117

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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 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	%

	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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