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Most number ones Best-selling albums |
The Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday; it was published for the first time on the week ending April 3, 1960. Prior to 1960 there was no official albums chart. During the decade, a total of 45 albums reached number one. The most successful artist of the 1960s was the English band The Beatles, who topped the Albums Chart for 190 weeks with thirteen different albums. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, their eighth studio album, was the biggest-selling album of 1967 and the biggest-selling of the decade. The first number-one album of the 1960s was the compilation Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2, by American singer and actor Elvis Presley, while the final number one was Led Zeppelin II (1969), the second album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Number-one albums
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| † | Best-selling album of the year |
| Best-selling album of the decade | |
| Runner-up album of the decade |
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Artists with the most number ones
editThree artists all had at least six number-one albums during the 1960s.
| Artist | Number ones | Albums |
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| The Beatles | 13 | List
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| Elvis Presley | 7 | List
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| Frank Sinatra | 6 | List
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Albums with the most weeks at number one
editThe following albums spent at least twenty weeks at number one during the 1960s.
| Artist | Album | Weeks at number one |
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| The Beatles | Please Please Me | 23 |
| A Hard Day's Night | 21 | |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
Artists with the most weeks at number one
editThree different artists have spent fifty weeks or more at number one on the album chart during the 1960s.
| Artist | Weeks at number one |
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| The Beatles | 190 | List
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| Elvis Presley | 81 | List
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| Frank Sinatra | 55 | List
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Best-selling albums of the 1960s
edit| No. | Album | Artist | Year | Weeks at number one |
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| 1 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 1967 | 21 |
| 2 | The Beatles | 1968 | 15 | |
| 3 | Please Please Me | 1963 | 23 | |
| 4 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | 1969 | 16 |
| 5 | The Doors | The Doors | 1967 | 9 |
| 6 | A Hard Day's Night | The Beatles | 1964 | 21 |
| 7 | Abbey Road | 1969 | 6 | |
| 8 | Rubber Soul | 1965 | 18 | |
| 9 | Help! | 10 | ||
| 10 | With the Beatles | 1963 | 18 | |
| 11 | Bookends | Simon & Garfunkel | 1968 | 12 |
| 12 | Revolver | The Beatles | 1966 | 18 |
| 13 | Look at Us | Sonny & Cher | 1965 | 8 |
| 14 | Beatles for Sale | The Beatles | 1964 | 15 |
| 15 | Blue Hawaii | Elvis Presley | 1961 | 19 |
| 16 | Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits! | Frank Sinatra | 1968 | 6 |
| 17 | Magical Mystery Tour | The Beatles | 1967 | 12 |
| 18 | G.I. Blues | Elvis Presley | 1960 | 17 |
| 19 | Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2 | 1959 | 9 | |
| 20 | Yellow Submarine | The Beatles | 1968 | 7 |