Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Bruce Springsteen: Top 100 Songs

Bruce Springsteen

Top 100 Songs

Rock singer/songwriter and guitarist born Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen on 9/23/1949 in Freehold, NJ. Known as “The Boss.” Worked local clubs in New Jersey and Greenwich Village in the mid-60’s. Married to model/ actress Julianne Phillips from 1985-1989. Married Patti Scialfa on 6/8/91.

Has recorded and toured solo and with the E Street Band. Current members: Roy Bittan (k: 74-), Jake Clemons (sax: 12-), Nils Lofgren (g: 84-), Patti Scialfa (v/k/g: 84-), Gary Tallent (b: 72-), Steven Van Zandt (g: 75-83,95-), and Max Weinberg (d: 74-). Past members have included Clarence Clemons (sax: 72-11; died in 2011), Danny Federici (k: 72-08; died 2008), Vini Lopez (d: 72-74), and David Sancious (k: 72-74).

“Born to Run” is featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999. Two of his albums, Born to Run (1975) and Born in the U.S.A. (1984), are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Albums of All Time.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

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Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast episodes The Best of Bruce Springsteen, 1973-1988 and The Best of Bruce Springsteen, 1992-2022 based on this list. Premieres: February 21 and 28, 2023 at 7pm CST. New episodes based on Dave’s Music Database lists are posted every Tuesday at 7pm CST.

Awards:

Top 100 Songs Written and/or Performed
by Bruce Springsteen

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to charts.)

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Born to Run (1975)
2. Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
3. Dancing in the Dark (1984) #1 CB, #1 AR
4. Streets of Philadelphia (1994) #1 CN
5. Thunder Road (1975)

DMDB Top 2%:

6. Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, 1976) #1 US, 1 CB, 1 HR, 1 RR, 1 CL, 1 CN
7. Hungry Heart (1980)

DMDB Top 5%:

8. Glory Days (1984)
9. The River (1980)
10. I’m on Fire (1984)

11. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (1973)
12. Brilliant Disguise (1987) #1 AR
13. The Rising (2002) #1 AA
14. Because the Night (Patti Smith, 1978)
15. Tunnel of Love (1987) #1 AR
16. Badlands (1978)
17. Jungleland (1975)
18. My Hometown (1984) #1 AC
19. Fire (The Pointer Sisters, 1978)
20. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (live, 1975)
21. Secret Garden (1995)

DMDB Top 10%:

22. Atlantic City (1982)
23. Human Touch (1992) #1 AR
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (1975)
25. Cover Me (1984)
26. War (live, 1985)
27. Pink Cadillac (1984)
28. Prove It All Night (1978)
29. 4th of July (Sandy) (1973)
30. Radio Nowhere (2007)

31. Fire (1978)
32. Because the Night (10,000 Maniacs; 1993)
33. American Skin (41 Shots) (live, 2000)

DMDB Top 20%:

34. The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
35. Devils & Dust (2005)
36. I’m Goin’ Down (1984)
37. Trapped (live, 1984) #1 AR
38. We Take Care of Our Own (2012)
39. Backstreets (1975)
40. Spare Parts (1987)

41. We Shall Overcome (1998)
42. One Step Up (1987)
43. This Land Is Your Land (live, 1980)
44. This Little Girl (Gary “U.S.” Bonds, 1981)
45. Fade Away (1980)
46. 57 Channels and Nothin’ On (1992)
47. Bobby Jean (1984)
48. Better Days (1992)
49. Light of Day (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, 1987)
50. The Promised Land (1978)

51. Lonesome Day (2002)
52. Because the Night (1978)
53. Blinded by the Light (1973)
54. Racing in the Street (1978)
55. Wasted Days (with John Mellencamp, 2021)
56. Murder Incorporated (1982)
57. Working on a Dream (2008)
58. Spirit in the Night (1973)
59. Hello Sunshine (2019)
60. Girls in Their Summer Clothes (2007)

61. No Surrender (1984)
62. The Wrestler (2008)
63. Pink Cadillac (Natalie Cole, 1988)
64. Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
65. Land of Hope and Dreams (1999)
66. My City of Ruins (2000)
67. Thunder Road (live with Melissa Etheridge, 1995)
68. Cadillac Ranch (1980)
69. Letter to You (2020)
70. Tougher Than the Rest (1987)
71. Spirit in the Night (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, 1975)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

72. Candy’s Room (1978)
73. Stand on It (1983)
74. Empty Sky (2002)
75. For You (1973)
76. Rocky Ground (2012)
77. Wrecking Ball (2012)
78. Growin’ Up (1973)
79. My City of Ruins (Eddie Vedder, 2009)
80. Leap of Faith (1992)

81. Youngstown (1995)
82. Point Blank (1980)
83. For You (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, 1981)
84. My Lucky Day (2008)
85. The Ghost of Tom Joad (Rage Against the Machine, 1997)
86. Gypsy Woman (1994)
87. She’s the One (1975)
88. Outlaw Pete (2009)
89. Independence Day (1980)
90. Out in the Street (1980)

91. Be True (1979)
92. I’ll Stand by You Always (2000)
93. Waitin’ on a Sunny Day (2002)
94. Ramrod (1980)
95. High Hopes (1996)
96. Johnny 99 (1982)
97. Lucky Town (1992)
98. Chimes of Freedom (live, 1988)
99. Jack of All Trades (2012)
100. All That Heaven Will Allow (1987)

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First posted 9/23/2011; last updated 2/28/2023.

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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Top 100 Songs from 1910-1919

Top 100 Songs of the Decade:

1910-1919

These are the top 100 songs from the 1910s according to Dave’s Music Database. Rankings are figured by combining sales figures, chart data, radio airplay, video airplay, streaming figures, awards, and appearances on best-of lists.

Check out other “songs of the decade” lists here.

1. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
2. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
3. Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911)
4. Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)
5. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910)
6. American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (1912)
7. Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” (1918)
8. Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
9. Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone” (1919)
10. Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” (1918)

11. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
12. Chauncey Olcott “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” (1913)
13. John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1915)
14. Casey Jones...American Quartet with Billy Murray (1910)
15. Down by the Old Mill Stream...Harry MacDonough (1911)
16. Darktown Strutters’ Ball...Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1918)
17. They Didn't Believe Me...Harry MacDonough with Olive Kline (1915)
18. The Knickerbocker Quartet “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile” (1917)
19. Arthur Fields “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” (1918)
20. Alma Gluck “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (1915)

21. Henry Burr “Beautiful Ohio” (1919)
22. Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (1912)
23. Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (1917)
24. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon” (1914)
25. Charles Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (1918)
26. Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)” (1918)
27. John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” (1919)
28. Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (1919)
29. Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (1915)
30. Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (1914)

31. Billy Murray with the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (1911)
32. Henry Burr “When I Lost You” (1913)
33. George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (“Shure, They Call It Ireland”)” (1915)
34. Elsie Baker “The Missouri Waltz (Hush-a-Bye Ma Baby)” (1917)
35. Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” (1916)
36. Chauncey Olcott “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That’s an Irish Lullaby)” (1913)
37. Prince’s Orchestra “Ballin’ the Jack” (1914)
38. Elsie Baker “I Love You Truly” (1912)
39. Billy Murray & Ada Jones with American Quartet “Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine” (1911)
40. Anna Wheaton with James Harrod “Till the Clouds Roll By” (1917)

41. Fisk University Jubilee Quartet “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1910)
42. Ernestine Schumann-Heink “Danny Boy” (1918)
43. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)” (1911)
44. Irving Kaufman with the Columbia Quartet “Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here” (1918)
45. Bob Roberts “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” (1912)
46. Billy Murray “Pretty Baby” (1916)
47. Nora Bayes “How ‘Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm after They've Seen Paree?” (1919)
48. Henry Burr “Oh! What a Pal Was Mary” (1919)
49. American Quartet “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!” (1917)
50. Henry Burr “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” (1910)

51. Henry Burr “Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)” (1916)
52. Harry MacDonough “Where the River Shannon Flows” (1910)
53. American Quartet “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917)
54. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’” (1913)
55. Prince’s Orchestra “The Star Spangled Banner” (1916)
56. John McCormack “I’m Falling in Love with Someone” (1911)
57. Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra with Harry MacDonough “Smiles” (1918)
58. James F. Harrison “Keep the Home Fires Burning” (1915)
59. Billy Murray & Ada Jones “Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee” (1912)
60. Nora Bayes with Joseph Pasternach’s Orchestra “Over There” (1917)

61. Bert Williams “Play That Barber-Shop Chord” (1910)
62. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (1913)
63. Olive Kline with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!” (1915)
64. Al Jolson “I’ll Say She Does” (1919)
65. Prince’s Orchestra “The Memphis Blues” (1914)
66. Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (The Stammering Song)” (1918)
67. Charles Harrison “Peg O’ My Heart” (1913)
68. Al Jolson “The Spaniard That Blighted My Life” (1913)
69. Henry Burr “Last Night Was the End of the World” (1913)
70. John McCormack “Mother Machree” (1911)

71. Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “I’m on My Way to Mandalay” (1914)
72. Peerless Quartet “Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad” (1911)
73. Joe Hayman “Cohen on the Telephone” (1914)
74. James F. Harrison with James Reed “There’s a Long, Long Trail” (1915)
75. Enrico Caruso “Over There” (1918)
76. Arthur Clough with the Brunswick Quartet “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (1911)
77. Al Jolson “That Haunting Melody” (1912)
78. John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” (1916)
79. Al Jolson “Ragging the Baby to Sleep” (1912)
80. Arthur Collins with Bryon G. Harlan “Under the Yum Yum Tree” (1911)

81. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen” (1912)
82. Ada Jones “Row! Row! Row!” (1913)
83. American Quartet “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1914)
84. Cecil Fanning “A Perfect Day” (1911)
85. Al Jolson “Hello Central, Give Me No Man’s Land” (1918)
86. Nicholas Orlando’s Orchestra with Harry Macdonough & Charles Hart “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
87. Van & Schenck “For Me and My Gal” (1917)
88. Alma Gluck with Efrem Zimbalist “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1915)
89. Charles Harrison “Ireland Must Be Heaven for My Mother Came from There” (1916)
90. Arthur Collins with Bryon G. Harlan “I Love the Ladies” (1914)

91. Peerless Quartet “Over There” (1917)
92. American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (1914)
93. American Quartet “When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose” (1915)
94. Alma Gluck “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1916)
95. Billy Murray “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
96. Harry MacDonough with Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement” (1910)
97. Henry Burr “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (1918)
98. Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “There’s a Quaker Down in Quaker Town” (1916)
99. Arthur Clough “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911)
100. Charles Harrison with the Columbia Stellar Quartet “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1918)

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First posted 4/4/2012; last updated 3/26/2020.

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Friday, February 24, 2023

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1930-1939

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1930-1939

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1930 to 1939. Songs could have hit #1 on any of these charts:

The date indicates the song’s first appearance at #1, regardless of which chart it was. The act associated with the song is then listed. Neither the Gardner book nor the Your Hit Parade charts refer to specific artists, so the artists identified here are those which also hit #1 on another chart, are the highest-ranked version according to Dave’s Music Database, or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner.

Then come the letter codes indicating which charts the song topped. The number following that is the number of weeks at #1. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been adjusted by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. The Mawer charts are drawn from different sources, including Your Hit Parade and USA Weekly – sometimes referencing more than one chart for a single song. They also reference a bi-weekly chart (in which case weeks at #1 have been doubled), which may have been created by Mawer or may be from a non-credited source.

Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here.

1930:

  1. 1/4: Leo Reisman “I’ll See You Again” (SM: 2)
  2. 1/11: Roy Ingrahma “Chant of the Jungle” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  3. 2/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris, & Jack Fulton “I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  4. 2/1: Ted Weems with Art Jarrett & Parker Gibbs “The Man from the South with a Big Cigar in His Mouth” (PM: 1)
  5. 2/8: Benny Meroff with Dusty Rhoades “Happy Days Are Here Again” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  6. 2/15: Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  7. 3/1: Harry Richman “Puttin’ on the Ritz” (PM: 1)
  8. 3/22: Rudy Vallee “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (PM: 10, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  9. 4/19: Leo Reisman “What Is This Thing Called Love?” (SM: 1)
  10. 4/26: Ruth Etting “Exactly Like You” (SM: 4)
  11. 5/24: Frank Luther with Carson Robison (as Bud & Joe Billings) “When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver” (GA: 4, SM: 7)
  12. 5/31: Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra with Frank Luther & Carson Robison “When It's Springtime in the Rockies” (PM: 2, SM: 4)
  13. 6/14: Ben Selvin “When It's Springtime in the Rockies” (PM: 3, GA: 4)
  14. 6/14: Bert Lown “Bye Bye Blues” (SM: 2)
  15. 6/28: Earl Burtnett “So Beats My Heart for You” (SM: 2)
  16. 7/1: Nat Shilkret with Lewis James “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” (PM: 7, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  17. 7/12: Smith Ballew & His Orchestra “Time on My Hands (You in My Arms)” (SM: 4)
  18. 8/23: Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “Little White Lies” (PM: 6, GA: 12, SM: 10)
  19. 9/20: George Olsen with Bob Borger “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (SM: 3)
  20. 9/20: McKinney’s Cotton Pickers with George Thomas “If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight” (PM: 2)
  21. 10/4: John Boles with Leroy Shield “For You” (SM: 2)
  22. 10/18: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Body and Soul” (PM: 6, SM: 3)
  23. 11/8: Duke Ellington with the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, & Harry Barris) “Three Little Words” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  24. 11/29: Tom Gerun & His Orchestra “Cheerful Little Earful” (SM: 1)
  25. 12/6: Red Nichols with Dick Robertson “Embraceable You” (SM: 5)
  26. 12/20: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “You’re Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?)” (PM: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)

1931:

  1. 1/17: Don Azpiazu with Arturo Machin “The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)” (PM: 4)
  2. 1/31: Libby Holman “Something to Remember You By” (SM: 5)
  3. 2/14: Ted Lewis “Just a Gigolo” (PM: 2, GA: 8)
  4. 3/7: Libby Holman “Love for Sale” (SM: 2)
  5. 3/21: Leo Reisman with Frances Maddux “Someday I’ll Find You” (SM: 4)
  6. 3/21: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “By the River St. Marie” (PM: 3)
  7. 4/4: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” (PM: 1)
  8. 4/18: Gus Arnheim with Bing Crosby “I Surrender Dear” (SM: 3)
  9. 4/18: Isham Jones “Stardust” (PM: 1)
  10. 4/25: Wayne King with Ernie Burchill “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (PM: 4, SM: 2)
  11. 5/1: Wayne King “The Waltz You Saved for Me” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 5/9: Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Out of Nowhere” (PM: 3, SM: 4)
  13. 6/1: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “There Ought to Be a Moonlight Saving Time” (PM: 3, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  14. 6/6: Gene Austin with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra “When Your Lover has Gone” (SM: 1)
  15. 6/27: Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store” (PM: 3, SM: 3)
  16. 6/27: Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Just One More Chance” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  17. 7/18: Fred Waring’s Pennyslvanians “Dancing in the Dark” (SM: 3)
  18. 8/1: Kate Smith “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” (PM: 2, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  19. 8/8: Bing Crosby “At Your Command” (PM: 3)
  20. 8/22: Gus Arnheim with Donald Novis “Sweet and Lovely” (PM: 6, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  21. 10/1: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Sweet and Lovely” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  22. 10/17: Wayne King “Goodnight, Sweetheart” (PM: 7, GA: 12)
  23. 11/30: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Goodnight, Sweetheart” (PM: 2, GA: 12)
  24. 12/12: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Mildred Bailey “All of Me” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  25. 12/19: The Mills Brothers “Tiger Rag” (PM: 4)

1932:

  1. 1/9: Leo Reisman with Francis Maddux “Paradise” (PM: 6, GA: 12, SM: 7)
  2. 1/16: Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra “River Stay ‘Way from My Door” (PM: 2)
  3. 1/30: Bing Crosby with the Mills Brothers “Dinah” (PM: 2)
  4. 2/1: Louis Armstrong “Home (When Shadows Fall)” (SM: 2)
  5. 2/27: Ruby Newman with Gordon Graham “My Silent Love” (SM: 5)
  6. 2/28: Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (PM: 2, GA: 4)
  7. 3/1: Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers “Was That the Human Thing to Do?” (SM: 2)
  8. 3/15: Morton Downey “Auf Wiederseh’n, My Dear” (SM: 4)
  9. 3/19: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Too Many Tears” (GA: 4, PM: 2)
  10. 3/26: Russ Columbo with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra “Just Friends” (SM: 2)
  11. 3/31: Bert Lown “Was That the Human Thing to Do?” (GA: 4)
  12. 4/16: Fred Waring’s Pennyslvanians “Soft Lights and Sweet Music” (SM: 4)
  13. 4/30: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Paradise” (PM: 3, GA: 12)
  14. 4/30: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee” (SM: 2)
  15. 5/28: Ted Lewis “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” (PM: 10, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  16. 6/4: George Olsen “Lullaby of the Leaves” (PM: 2, SM: 4)
  17. 7/9: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “How Deep Is the Ocean?” (SM: 2)
  18. 7/30: Isham Jones with Frank Hazzard “Just a Little Street Where Old Friends Meet” (SM: 5)
  19. 8/27: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye” (PM: 5, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  20. 9/3: Bing Crosby “Just an Echo in the Valley” (GA: 4, SM: 6)
  21. 9/10: George Olsen with Paul Small “Say It Isn’t So” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  22. 10/15: Bing Crosby with Anson Weeks’ Orchestra “Please” (PM: 6, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  23. 11/1: Rudy Vallee “Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  24. 11/26: Bing Crosby with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (PM: 2)
  25. 12/10: Jack Denny with Paul Small “I’ve Told Every Little Star” (SM: 3)
  26. 12/10: Rudy Vallee “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (PM: 2)
  27. 12/24: Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Night and Day” (PM: 10, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  28. 12/31: Jack Denny with Paul Small “The Song Is You” (SM: 2)

1933:

  1. 2/11: Freddy Martin with Elmer Feldkamp “April in Paris” (SM: 4)
  2. 3/4: Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me” (PM: 4)
  3. 3/11: Gene Autry “Ole Faithful” (SM: 1)
  4. 3/25: Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” (GA: 8, SM: 4)
  5. 4/1: Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Dudley Mecum “42nd Street” (PM: 3)
  6. 4/22: Leo Reisman with Harold Arlen “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (PM: 8, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  7. 4/22: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Lover” (SM: 2)
  8. 5/6: Joe Green’s Novelty Orchestra “In the Valley of the Moon” (GA: 4, SM: 3)
  9. 6/17: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (PM: 3, GA: 4)
  10. 7/1: Bing Crosby with Jimmy Grier’s Orchestra “Shadow Waltz” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  11. 7/8: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Under a Blanket of Blue” (SM: 2)
  12. 7/15: Ted Lewis “Lazy Bones” (PM: 4, GA: 4)
  13. 7/15: Duke Ellington “Sophisticated Lady” (SM: 2)
  14. 8/5: Don Redman with Harlan Lattimore “Lazy Bones” (GA: 4, SM: 6)
  15. 8/19: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “Love Is the Sweetest Thing” (PM: 5, SM: 3)
  16. 9/9: Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Florence Case, Frank Sherryl, & Charles Yontz “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” (SM: 1)
  17. 9/23: George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (PM: 9, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  18. 10/28: Leo Reisman “By a Waterfall” (SM: 3)
  19. 10/31: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “The Last Round-Up” (PM: 3, GA: 8)
  20. 11/18: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “It’s the Talk of the Town” (SM: 1)
  21. 11/25: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bob Lawrence “If I Love Again” (SM: 3)
  22. 12/1: Henry King with Joe Study “Good Night Little Girl of My Dreams” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  23. 12/15: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?” (PM: 3, SM: 4)
  24. 1/20: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bob Lawrence “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (PM: 6, SM: 5)

1934:

  1. 1/6: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel” (PM: 3, GA: 16, SM: 12)
  2. 2/24: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Let’s Fall in Love” (PM: 5, SM: 2)
  3. 2/24: Bing Crosby “Temptation (Tim-Tay-Shun)” (SM: 3)
  4. 3/3: Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Mercellino “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii” (PM: 1, SM: 2)
  5. 3/31: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bob Lawrence “Wagon Wheels” (PM: 1, SM: 3)
  6. 3/31: Enric Madriguera with Patricia Gillmore “The Carioca” (PM: 2)
  7. 4/14: Bing Crosby with Jimmy Grier’s Orchestra “Little Dutch Mill” (PM: 5, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  8. 4/21: Ben Pollack with Doris Robbins “The Beat of My Heart” (SM: 3)
  9. 5/12: Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two” (PM: 5)
  10. 5/12: Emil Coleman with Jerry Cooper “Little Man, You’ve Hada Busy Day” (SM: 1)
  11. 5/16: Bing Crosby with Nat Finston’s Orchestra “Love Thy Neighbor” (SM: 4)
  12. 6/9: Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Mercellino “I’ll String Along with You” (PM: 5, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  13. 6/16: Rudy Vallee “Lost in a Fog” (SM: 6)
  14. 7/7: Benny Goodman “Moonglow” (PM: 1)
  15. 7/14: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Very Thought of You” (PM: 5)
  16. 7/14: Jan Garber with Fritz Heilbron “All I Do Is Dream of You” (PM: 2)
  17. 7/28: The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Bob Crosby “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” (SM: 2)
  18. 8/1: Jan Garber with Fritz Heilbron “All I Do Is Dream of You” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  19. 8/11: Leo Reisman with George Bueler “With My Eyes Wide Open, ‘Dreaming” (SM: 2)
  20. 8/18: Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson’s Orchestra “Love in Bloom” (PM: 6, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  21. 8/25: Grace Moore “One Night of Love” (PM: 4, SM: 3)
  22. 9/5: Freddy Martin with Elmer Feldkamp “I Saw Stars” (PM: 4)
  23. 9/15: Johnny Green with George Bouler “Two Cigarettes in the Dark” (SM: 3)
  24. 10/6: Ben Selvin with Howard Phillips “I Only Have Eyes for You” (SM: 4)
  25. 10/27: Leo Reisman “The Continental (You Kiss While We're Dancing)” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  26. 11/10: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Stars Fell on Alabama” (PM: 4, SM: 3)
  27. 12/1: Jimmie Grier with Harry Foster “Stay As Sweet As You Are” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  28. 12/8: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “June in January” (PM: 7, SM: 4)
  29. 12/29: Jimmie Grier with Pinky Tomlin “The Object of My Affection” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  30. 12/29: George Hall with Sonny Schuyler “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (SM: 1)

1935:

  1. 1/12: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “Isle of Capri” (PM: 7, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  2. 1/26: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Blue Moon” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  3. 1/26: The Boswell Sisters “The Object of My Affection” (PM: 2, GA: 4)
  4. 2/2: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Ramona Davies “I Get a Kick Out of You” (SM: 2)
  5. 3/23: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Lovely to Look At” (PM: 4, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  6. 3/30: Henry Busse “Lookie Lookie Lookie, Here Comes Cookie” (SM: 1)
  7. 4/6: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “I Won’t Dance” (PM: 3, SM: 2)
  8. 4/13: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “It’s Easy to Remember” (PM: 2)
  9. 4/15: The Dorsey Brothers with Bob Crosby “Lullaby of Broadway” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  10. 4/20: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Soon” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  11. 5/15: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “When I Grow Too Old to Dream” (PM: 4, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  12. 5/18: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “What’s the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You?” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  13. 6/1: Ozzie Nelson “About a Quartet to Nine” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  14. 6/1: Ruth Etting “Life Is a Song” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  15. 6/15: Bob Crosby with Frank Tennille “In a Little Gypsy Tea Room” (PM: 3, HP: 2, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  16. 6/22: The Dorsey Brothers with Bob Eberly “Chasing Shadows” (PM: 3, HP: 4, SM: 5)
  17. 6/22: Victor Young with Hal Burke & the Tune Twisters “She’s a Latin from Manhattan” (PM: 4)
  18. 7/20: Ray Noble & the Freshmen “Let’s Swing It” (PM: 2)
  19. 7/27: Hal Hemp with Skinnay Ennis “In the Middle of a Kiss” (HP: 1, SM: 1)
  20. 8/3: Jimmie Lunceford with Willie Smith “Rhythm Is Our Business” (PM: 1)
  21. 8/10: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (PM: 11, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  22. 8/10: Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “Paris in the Spring” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  23. 8/17: Ozzie Nelson “And Then Some” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  24. 8/24: Tom Coakley with Carl Ravazza “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  25. 8/31: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “You’re All I Need” (HP: 2, SM: 1)
  26. 9/7: Little Jack Little “I’m in the Mood for Love” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  27. 10/19: Fats Waller “Truckin’” (PM: 3)
  28. 11/2: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “You Are My Lucky Star” (PM: 3, HP: 3, SM: 3)
  29. 11/15: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  30. 11/23: Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Red Sails in the Sunset” (PM: 2, , HP: 4, GA: 4)
  31. 11/30: Tommy Dorsey with Edyth Wright “On Treasure Island” (PM: 1, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  32. 12/28: Fats Waller “A Little Bit Independent” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)

1936:

  1. 1/4: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round” (PM: 5, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  2. 1/4: Riley-Farley Orchestra with Mike Reilly “The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round” (PM: 3, HP: 3, GA: 4)
  3. 2/1: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Moon Over Miami” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  4. 2/8: Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone” (PM: 7, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  5. 2/29: Jan Garber with Lew Palmer “A Beautiful Lady in Blue” (PM: 2)
  6. 3/7: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Lights Out (Close Your Eyes and Dream of Me)” (PM: 1, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  7. 3/14: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody” (PM: 6, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  8. 4/4: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket” (PM: 1)
  9. 4/11: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “It’s Been So Long” (PM: 2)
  10. 4/25: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Lost” (PM: 2, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  11. 5/9: Jan Gaber with Leo Bennett “A Melody from the Sky” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 2)
  12. 5/23: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “You” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  13. 5/30: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “The Glory of Love” (PM: 6, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  14. 6/1: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Is It True What They Say About Dixie” (PM: 4, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  15. 6/6: Fats Waller “All My Life” (PM: 1)
  16. 7/11: Hal Kemp “There’s a Small Hotel” (PM: 2)
  17. 7/15: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  18. 7/18: Eddy Duchin with Jerry Cooper “Take My Heart” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 4)
  19. 7/25: Fats Waller “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” (PM: 4, GA: 4)
  20. 8/15: Shep Fields with Charles Chester “Did I Remember?” (PM: 4, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  21. 8/15: Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis “When I’m with You” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  22. 8/22: Andy Kirk with Pha Terrell “Until the Real Thing Comes Along” (PM: 2)
  23. 9/5: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song)” (PM: 5)
  24. 10/3: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “The Way You Look Tonight” (PM: 6, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  25. 10/10: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “When Did You Leave Heaven?” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  26. 11/14: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “You Turned the Tables on Me” (PM: 2)
  27. 11/28: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (PM: 10, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  28. 12/5: Eddy Duchin with Jimmy Newell “I’ll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  29. 12/12: Shep Fields “In the Chapel in the Moonlight” (PM: 2, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)

1937:

  1. 1/2: Eddy Duchin with Jerry Cooper “It’s De-Lovely” (PM: 2, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  2. 2/6: Benny Goodman with Ella Fitzgerald “Goodnight My Love” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 8, SM: 4)
  3. 2/20: Hal Hemp with Skinnay Ennis “This Year’s Kisses” (PM: 4)
  4. 2/20: Henry Busse with Bob Hannon “With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldn't Do)” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  5. 2/27: Benny Goodman with Margaret McRae “This Year’s Kisses” (PM: 3, HP: 3, SM: 2)
  6. 3/13: Guy Lombardo “When My Dream Boat Comes Home” (HP: 1, SM: 1)
  7. 3/15: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “Moonlight and Shadows” (SM: 2)
  8. 3/27: Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “Marie” (PM: 2)
  9. 4/1: Guy Lombardo “Boo Hoo” (PM: 5, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  10. 4/17: Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani” (PM: 10)
  11. 4/24: Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra “Too Marvelous for Words” (PM: 1)
  12. 5/1: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (PM: 1)
  13. 5/15: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “September in the Rain” (PM: 4, HP: 5, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  14. 5/15: Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson’s Orchestra “Carelessly” (PM: 3, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  15. 7/1: Guy Lombardo with Lebert Lombardo “It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane” (PM: 5, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  16. 7/3: Russ Morgan with Jimmie Lewis “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down” (PM: 2)
  17. 7/17: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  18. 7/24: Hal Kemp with Bob Allen “Where or When” (PM: 1)
  19. 7/31: Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton “Gone with the Wind” (PM: 1)
  20. 7/31: Fats Waller “Smarty (You Know It All)” (PM: 2)
  21. 8/7: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “A Sailboat in the Moonlight” (PM: 3, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  22. 8/21: Tommy Dorsey “Satan Takes a Holiday” (PM: 3)
  23. 9/1: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “So Rare” (PM: 1, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  24. 9/4: Bob Crosby with Kay Weber “Whispers in the Dark” (PM: 4, HP: 4, SM: 4)
  25. 9/11: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Big Apple” (PM: 2)
  26. 9/25: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “The Moon Got in My Eyes” (PM: 4)
  27. 10/9: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “That Old Feeling” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  28. 10/16: Teddy Wilson “You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming” (PM: 2, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  29. 11/6: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Remember Me?” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  30. 11/15: Rudy Vallee “Vieni, Vieni” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 2)
  31. 11/27: Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While” (PM: 7, HP: 7, GA: 4, SM: 7)
  32. 11/27: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Dipsy Doodle” (PM: 6)
  33. 12/11: Bing Crosby with Connee Boswell & John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)” (PM: 1)

1938:

  1. 1/1: Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Rosalie” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  2. 1/1: Fred Astaire with Ray Noble “Nice Work if You Can Get It” (PM: 1)
  3. 1/15: The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You’re Grand)” (PM: 5, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  4. 1/29: Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol “You’re a Sweetheart” (PM: 1, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  5. 2/26: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “Thanks for the Memory” (PM: 4, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  6. 2/26: Russ Morgan with Bernice Parks “I Double Dare You” (HP: 1, SM: 1)
  7. 3/19: Horace Heidt with Lysbeth Hughes & Larry Cotton “Ti-Pi-Tin” (PM: 6, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  8. 3/19: Benny Goodman “Don’t Be That Way” (PM: 5)
  9. 4/23: Duke Ellington “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart” (PM: 3, GA: 4)
  10. 5/7: Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Please Be Kind” (PM: 2, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  11. 5/14: Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Love Walked In” (HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 5/21: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Cry Baby Cry” (PM: 4, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  13. 5/28: Shep Fields with Jerry Stewart “Cathedral in the Pines” (PM: 3)
  14. 6/11: Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart” (PM: 1, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  15. 6/18: Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Says My Heart” (PM: 4, HP: 4, SM: 4)
  16. 6/25: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (PM: 10, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  17. 7/15: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music Maestro Please!” (PM: 6, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  18. 9/15: Russ Morgan “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (PM: 2, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  19. 9/17: Fred Astaire with Ray Noble’s Orchestra “Change Partners” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  20. 9/24: Bing Crosby with Connee Boswell & John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (PM: 2)
  21. 10/1: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “My Reverie” (PM: 8, HP: 8, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  22. 10/1: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4. SM: 4)
  23. 10/15: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Change Partners” (PM: 2, HP: 2)
  24. 10/29: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Heart and Soul” (PM: 1)
  25. 11/5: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (PM: 6)
  26. 12/17: Fats Waller “Two Sleepy People” (PM: 2)
  27. 12/31: Bing Crosby with Bob Crosby’s Orchestra “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” (PM: 2, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  28. 12/31: Andy Kirk with Pha Terrell “I Won’t Tell a Soul I Love You” (PM: 2)

1939:

  1. 1/7: Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest “They Say” (PM: 2)
  2. 1/14: Al Donahue with Paula Kelly “Jeepers Creepers” (PM: 5, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  3. 1/14: Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest “Thanks for Everything” (PM: 1)
  4. 2/4: Kay Kyser with Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt “The Umbrella Man” (PM: 1)
  5. 2/11: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (PM: 9, HP: 7, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  6. 3/18: Guy Lombardo “Penny Serenade” (PM: 1)
  7. 4/22: Glen Gray with Clyde Burke “Heaven Can Wait” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  8. 5/1: Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “Our Love” (PM: 1, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  9. 5/13: Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “And the Angels Sing” (PM: 5, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  10. 5/20: Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt, Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble “Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  11. 6/3: Will Glahe “Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)” (PM: 4)
  12. 6/10: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Wishing Will Make It So” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 8, SM: 4)
  13. 7/8: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Stairway to the Stars” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  14. 8/12: Glen Gray “Sunrise Serenade” (PM: 2)
  15. 7/1: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Moon Love” (PM: 4, HP: 4, SM: 4)
  16. 9/9: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Over the Rainbow” (PM: 7, HP: 7, GA: 8, SM: 7)
  17. 9/9: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (HP: 7, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  18. 9/9: Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Man with the Mandolin” (PM: 3)
  19. 9/30: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Blue Orchids” (PM: 1, SM: 1)
  20. 10/21: Bob Crosby with Helen Ward “Day in, Day Out” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  21. 11/1: Shep Fields with Hal Derwin “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” (PM: 5, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  22. 11/11: The Ink Spots “Address Unknown” (PM: 1)
  23. 11/25: Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (PM: 8, HP: 6, GA: 8, SM: 6)

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Saturday, February 18, 2023

In Concert: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, MO on 2/18/2023

image from UltimateClassicRock.com

The E Street Band:

  • Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, harmonica)
  • Roy Bittan (piano, synthesizer, accordion)
  • Nils Lofgren (guitar, background vocals)
  • Patti Scialfa (background vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine)
  • Garry Tallent (bass, background vocals)
  • Steven Van Zandt (guitar, background vocals)
  • Max Weinberg (drums)

Additional Players:

  • Anthony Almonte (percussion, congos, bongos, backing vocals)
  • Jake Clemons (saxophone, percussion, background vocals) – missed Kansas City show because of Covid-19
  • Barry Danielan (trumpet, percussion)
  • Charles Giordano (organ, accordion, electronic glockenspiel)
  • Ed Manion (saxophone, percussion)
  • Ozzie Melendez (trombone, percussion)
  • Curt Ramm (trumpet, percussion)
  • Soozie Tyrell (violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals)
  • Ada Dyer, Curtis King Jr., Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore (backing vocals, percussion)

Review:

This is my second time to see Bruce Springsteen live. The first time was in 2000. You can click here to read about that show. It’s worth noting that the two shows had seven songs in common: “Badlands,” “Born to Run,” “Candy’s Room,” “Out in the Street,” “The Promised Land,” “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” and “Thunder Road.” Those songs are all from 1980 or earlier. Fourteen of the songs in the 2023 were from those same years.

“Last Man Standing” and show closer “I’ll See You in My Dreams” were both from Springsteen’s most recent studio album of new material, 2020’s Letter to You. He also dipped into his 2022 R&B covers album Only the Strong Survive with a performance of the Commodores 1985 hit “Night Shift.”

live from Dallas, 2/10/2023

Those comprised three of only seven songs in the show which are new since the show I attended in 2000. Understandably the setlist relied on the classics, but I’ve been such a follower of The Boss that I would have been content with a show that leaned largely on his 21st century material. Singles such as “We Take Care of Our Own” and “Radio Nowhere” are strong latter-day rockers that would have worked well and, while I certainly didn’t expect them, I would have loved hearing some of my favorite album cuts like “Empty Sky,” “Sundown,” and “Rocky Ground.”

live from Orlando, 2023

Of course, the crowd favorites were understandably concert staples such as “Born to Run” and “Thunder Road.” The songs that best showcased Springsteen and the band’s showmanship, however, were the more obscure album cuts – most notably “Kitty’s Back” and “The E Street Shuffle.” Both songs were originally on Springsteen’s 1973 sophomore album The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle. Their appearances in the setlist showed Springsteen’s faith in even the deepest corners of his catalog. His faith wasn’t misplaced – those songs let the band cut lose with extended, crowd-pleasing jams that left me convinced Springsteen could put together an entire setlist of his least familiar material and still leave fans satisfied.

live from Atlanta, 2/3/2023

There were also touching tributes to some of Springsteen’s former bandmates. During “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” there were photos of saxophonist Clarence Clemons, Springsteen’s longtime bandmate and friend who died in 2011. He introduced the song “Last Man Standing” with a history into his first experiences in rock bands, including playing in the Castilles in the mid-‘60s with George Theiss. He died in 2018 which left Springsteen the “last man standing” from the Castilles.

Click here to see other concerts I’ve attended.

The Set List:

1. No Surrender 8
2. Ghosts 21
3. Prove It All Night 5
4. Letter to You 21
5. The Promised Land 5
6. Out in the Street 6
7. Candy’s Room 5
8. Kitty’s Back 2
9. Night Shift 22
10. The E Street Shuffle 2
11. Johnny 99 7
12. Last Man Standing 21
13. Backstreets 3
14. Because the Night 4
15. She’s the One 3
16. Wrecking Ball 18
17. The Rising 13
18. Badlands 5
19. Thunder Road 3
20. Born to Run 3
21. Rosalita 2
22. Glory Days 8
23. Dancing in the Dark 8
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 3
25. I’ll See You in My Dreams 21

Discography:

1 Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
2 The Wild, the Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
3 Born to Run (1975)
4 The Promise (archives, 1976-78)
5 Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
6 The River (1980)
7 Nebraska (1982)
8 Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
9 Tunnel of Love (1987)
10 Human Touch (1992)
11 Lucky Town (1992)
12 The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
13 The Rising (2002)
14 Devils & Dust (2005)
15 We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (covers, 2006)
16 Magic (2007)
17 Working on a Dream (2009)
18 Wrecking Ball (2012)
19 High Hopes (2014)
20 Western Stars (2019)
21 Letter to You (2020)
22 Only the Strong Survive (2023)

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Friday, February 17, 2023

World’s Best-Selling Albums Each Year, 1955-2022

World’s Best-Selling Albums:

1955-2022

Astonishingly, there is no clearcut resource for worldwide album sales. By pooling together data from various sources (links here), Dave’s Music Database has compiled a list of the best-selling album from each year since 1955.

Check out other album of the year awards here.

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The DMDB Top 1000 Albums of All Time

Dave’s Music Database:

The Top 1000 Albums of All Time

Below is a list of the top 1000 albums of all time, according to Dave’s Music Database. To see more details about the creation and goals of this list, click on the appropriate link below or just head straight to the list.

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  1. Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (composer) Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) (classical, composed 1562)
  2. Thomas Tallis (composer) Spem in Alium, Motet for 40 Voices (1570)
  3. Claudio Monteverdi (composer) L’Orfeo (Orpheus) (opera, composed 1607, premiered 2/24/1607)
  4. Claudio Monteverdi (composer) Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (classical, composed 1610)
  5. Claudio Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea) (opera: 1642)
  6. Henry Purcell (composer) Dido and Aeneas (premiered 12/1/1687)
  7. Johann Pachelbel (composer) “Canon in D major” (1694)

    1700-1749

  8. George Friedrich Handel (composer) Water Music (classical, composed 1717, premiered 7/17/1717)
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Sonatas and Partitas for Violin (classical, composed 1720)
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Brandenburg Concertos (classical, composed 1719-21)
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Cello Suites (classical, composed 1717-23)
  12. George Friedrich Händel (composer) Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) (classical, composed 1724)
  13. Antonio Vivaldi (composer) The Four Seasons (classical, composed 1725)
  14. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) St. Matthew Passion (classical, composed 1729-36)
  15. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Goldberg Variations (classical, composed 1741)
  16. George Friedrich Händel (composer) Messiah (classical, composed 1741, premiered 4/13/1742)
  17. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Mass in B Minor (classical, composed 1733-1749)

    1750-1799

  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Symphony No. 35 (Haffner) (classical, composed 1782)
  19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Piano Concerto No. 20 (classical, composed 1785, premiered 2/11/1785)
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Piano Concerto No. 21 (classical, composed 1785, premiered 3/10/1785)
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (classical, composed 1786)
  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor (classical, composed 1786)
  23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (opera, composed 1786)
  24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Symphony No. 38 in D Major (Prague) (classical, composed 1786, premiered 1/19/1787)
  25. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Don Giovanni (opera, composed 1787, premiered 10/29/1787)
  26. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Symphony No. 39 in E flat major (classical, composed 1788)
  27. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Symphony No. 40 in G minor (classical, composed 1788)
  28. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” (classical, composed 1788)
  29. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Requiem Mass in D minor (classical, composed 1791)
  30. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Clarinet Concerto in A Major (classical, composed 1791)
  31. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (classical, composed 1791)
  32. Franz Josef Haydn (composer) Symphony No. 104 in D major (London) (composed 1795)

    1800-1819

  33. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Piano Concerto No. 3 (classical, composed 1800)
  34. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 3 in E-flat “Sinfonia Eroica” (classical, composed 1804)
  35. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Fidelio (classical, composed 1805)
  36. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Violin Concerto in D Major (classical, composed 1806)
  37. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Piano Concerto No. 4 (classical, composed 1806)
  38. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 4 (classical, composed 1806, premiered 3/1807)
  39. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 5 (classical, composed 1808, premiered 12/22/1808)
  40. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” (classical, composed 1808, premiered 12/22/1808)
  41. Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” (classical, premiered 1/13/1811)
  42. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 7 (classical, composed 1812, premiered 12/8/1813)
  43. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 8 (classical, composed 1812, premiered 2/27/1814)
  44. Gioacchino Rossini (composer) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) (opera, composed 1816)
  45. Franz Schubert (composer) Piano Quintet in A Major (“Trout”) (classical, composed 1819)

    1820-1839

  46. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Piano Sonatas (32) (classical, composed 1795-1822)
  47. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 9 (classical, composed 1824, premiered 5/7/1824)
  48. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) String Quartets (16) (classical, composed 1798-1826)
  49. Franz Schubert (composer) Symphony No. 9 in C major (The Great) (classical, composed 1828)
  50. Hector Berlioz (composer) Symphonie Fantastique (classical, composed 1830)
  51. Vincenzo Bellini (composer) Norma (classical, composed 1831, premiered 12/26/1831)

    1840-1879

  52. Felix Mendessohn (composer) Violin Concerto in E minor (composed 1838-45, premiered 3/14/1845)
  53. Giuseppe Verdi (composer) Rigoletto: La Donna E Mobile (composed 1851, premiered 3/11/1851)
  54. Giuseppe Verdi (composer) La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) (opera, composed 1853, premiered 3/6/1853)
  55. Richard Wagner (composer) Tristan Und Isolde (opera, composed 1857-59, premiered 6/10/1865)
  56. Franz Schubert (composer) Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) (classical, composed 1822, premiered 12/17/1865)
  57. Edvard Grieg (composer) Piano Concerto in A minor (composed 1868)
  58. Giuseppe Verdi (composer) Aida (opera, composed 1871, premiered 12/1871)
  59. Modest Mussorgsky (composer) Tableaux d'une Exposition (Pictures at an Exhibition) (classical, composed for piano in 1874, reworked for orchestra in 1922, premiered 10/19/1923)
  60. Richard Wagner (composer) Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (opera, composed 1848-1874, premiered 8/17/1876)
  61. Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor (composed 1876, premiered 11/4/1876)
  62. Georges Bizet (composer) Carmen (opera, composed 1873-74, premiered 3/3/1875)
  63. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (composer) Piano Concerto No. 1 (classical, composed 1875, premiered 10/15/1875)
  64. Johannes Brahms (composer) Violin Concerto in D Major (composed 1878, premiered 1/1/1879)

    1880-1899

  65. Johannes Brahms (composer) Symphony No. 4 (classical, composed 1885)
  66. Gustav Mahler (composer) Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titan) (classical, composed 1884-88, premiered 11/20/1889)
  67. Antonin Dvorák (composer) Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World) (classical, composed 1893, premiered 5/24/1893)
  68. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (composer) Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) (classical, composed 1893, premiered 10/28/1893)
  69. Gustav Mahler (composer) Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” (composed: 1888-94, premiered 12/13/1895)
  70. Giacomo Puccini (composer) La Bohème (The Bohemian Life) (opera, composed 1896, premiered 2/1/1896)

    1900-1929

  71. Giacomo Puccini (composer) Tosca (opera, composed 1900, premiered 1/14/1900)
  72. Sergei Rachmaninov (composer) Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (classical, composed 1901, premiered 11/9/1901)
  73. Gustav Mahler (composer) Symphony No. 5 (composed 1902, premiered 10/18/1904)
  74. Richard Strauss (composer) Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose) (classical, composed 1911, premiered 1/26/1911)
  75. Gustav Mahler (composer) Symphony No. 9 in D Major (Farewell) (composed 1909, premiered 6/26/1912)
  76. Igor Stravinsky (composer) Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (ballet, composed 1913, premiered 5/29/1913)
  77. Arthur Collins The King of the Ragtime Singers (compilation: 1902-1916, released 2014)
  78. Giacomo Puccini (composer) Turandot (opera, composed 1926, stage debut: 4/25/1926)
  79. Jerome Kern (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) Show Boat (stage debut: 12/27/27, cast recorded 1933, soundtrack released 1951)
  80. Paul Whiteman Masterpieces (compilation: 1920-27, released 2015)
  81. Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (box set, recorded 1925-28, released 8/22/2000)
  82. Henry Burr Anthology: The Original King of Pop (compilation: 1903-28, released 2005)

    1930-1939

  83. Various Artists compiled by Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music (box set, recorded 1926-32, released 1952)
  84. Bessie Smith The Essential (compilation, 1923-33, released 9/23/1997)
  85. Charlie Patton Founder of the Delta Blues (compilation: 1929-34, released 1969)
  86. George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward (composers) Porgy and Bess (opera/musical, composed 1935, stage debut: 9/30/35)
  87. Dmitry Shostakovich (composer) Symphony No. 5 in D minor (classical, composed 1937, premiered 11/21/1937)
  88. Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings (compilation: 1936-37, released 8/28/90)
  89. Benny Goodman The Complete Legendary Carnegie Hall Concert (live, recorded 1/16/38)
  90. Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, & Herbert Stothart (composers) The Wizard of Oz (soundtrack, 8/25/39)

    1940-1949

  91. Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads (7/40)
  92. Billy Murray Anthology: The Denver Nightingale (compilation: 1903-40, released 2002)
  93. Glenn Miller Glenn Miller (aka “Glenn Miller & His Orchestra”) (compilation: 1939-42, charted 3/24/45)
  94. Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band (box set: 1939-42, released 10/25/90)
  95. Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) Oklahoma! (stage debut: 3/31/43, cast recording released 12/4/44, soundtrack released 8/1/55)
  96. Béla Bartók (composer) Concerto for Orchestra (classical, composed 1944, premiered 12/1/44)
  97. Glenn Miller Very Best of (compilation: 1939-44, released 2010)
  98. Richard Rodgers (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) Carousel (stage debut: 4/19/45, cast recording released 5/21/45, soundtrack charted 2/25/56)
  99. Bing Crosby Merry Christmas (aka ‘White Christmas’) (Christmas, charted 12/1/45)
  100. Irving Berlin (music & lyrics) Annie Get Your Gun (stage debut: 5/16/46, cast recording released 7/8/46, soundtrack charted 6/10/50)
  101. Al Jolson Songs He Made Famous (soundtrack, released 11/46)
  102. Cole Porter (composer) Kiss Me, Kate (stage debut: 12/30/48, cast recording released 1949, soundtrack charted 1/23/54)
  103. Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) South Pacific (stage debut: 4/4/49, cast released 5/9/49, soundtrack released 3/19/58)
  104. Al Jolson Best of (compilation: 1913-49; released 6/27/1007)

    1950-1955

  105. Miles Davis Birth of the Cool (recorded 1/21/49 to 3/9/50, released 1957)
  106. Frank Loesser (composer) Guys and Dolls (stage debut: 11/24/50, cast recording: 12/3/50, released 1/8/51)
  107. Guy Lombardo The Band Played On: 25 Number One Hits! (compilation: 1927-50, released 2002)
  108. Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) The King and I (stage debut: 3/29/51, cast recording charted 5/28/51, soundtrack charted 7/21/56)
  109. George & Ira Gershwin (composers) An American in Paris (classical, soundtrack released 10/4/51)
  110. Jane Froman With a Song in My Heart (soundtrack, charted 3/29/52)
  111. Jackie Gleason Music for Lovers Only (charted 1/17/53)
  112. Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1947-53, released 1978)
  113. Mario Lanza The Student Prince (soundtrack, charted 7/10/54)
  114. Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours (4/25/55)
  115. Muddy Waters His Best 1947-55 (includes all of Best of, compilation: 1947-55, released 1997)
  116. Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions (aka Sunrise, The Sun Years, or The Sun Collection) (archives, recorded 1954-55, released 3/76)

    1956

  117. Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1/16/56)
  118. Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe (composers) My Fair Lady (stage debut: 3/15/56, cast recorded 3/24/56, cast album charted 4/28/56, soundtrack charted 10/10/64)
  119. Elvis Presley Elvis Presley (aka Rock ‘N’ Roll) (3/23/56)
  120. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (covers, released 3/27/56)
  121. Harry Belafonte Calypso (charted 6/16/56)
  122. Duke Ellington At Newport (live, recorded 7/7/56)
  123. Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus (recorded 3/22/56 to 10/5/56)
  124. Various Artists The First Rock and Roll Record (1916-56, released 10/20/11)

    1957

  125. Little Richard Here’s Little Richard (3/57)
  126. Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim (composers) West Side Story (stage debut: 9/26/57, cast recording charted 3/17/58, soundtrack charted 10/23/61)
  127. Elvis Presley Elvis’ Christmas Album (10/57)
  128. Buddy Holly & the Crickets The Chirping Crickets (11/27/57)
  129. Meredith Willson (composer) The Music Man (stage debut: 12/19/57, cast recording charted 2/24/58, soundtrack charted 8/11/62)
  130. Bing Crosby The Definitive Collection (compilation, 1931-57, released 1/24/2006)

    1958

  131. Johnny Mathis Johnny’s Greatest Hits (compilation: 1956-58, 3/58)
  132. Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe (composers) Gigi (soundtrack, charted 6/23/58, cast: 1973)
  133. Buddy Holly & The Crickets 20 Golden Greats (compilation: 1956-58, released 2/17/78)

    1959

  134. Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn (soundtrack, charted 2/9/59)
  135. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (recorded 3/2/59 to 4/22/59)
  136. Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um (recorded 5/5/59 to 5/12/59)
  137. Jule Styne (music) & Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) Gypsy (stage debut: 5/21/59, cast recording: 5/28/59, soundtrack: 12/15/62)
  138. Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come (recorded 5/22/59)
  139. The Kingston Trio At Large (charted 6/22/59)
  140. Dave Brubeck Time Out (released 6/59)
  141. Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) The Sound of Music (stage debut: 11/16/59, cast recording released 11/59, soundtrack released 3/65)
  142. John Coltrane Giant Steps (recorded 4/1/59 to 12/2/59, released 1960)

    1960

  143. Miles Davis/Gil Evans Sketches of Spain (recorded 11/15/59 to 3/10/60)
  144. Lionel Bart (composer) Oliver! (musical: 6/30/60; movie: 9/26/68)
  145. Muddy Waters At Newport (live, recorded 7/3/60)
  146. Elvis Presley G.I. Blues (soundtrack, 10/60)
  147. Bobby “Blue” Bland Two Steps from the Blues (compilation: 1956-60, released 11/12/60)
  148. Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner (composers) Camelot (cast recording, stage debut: 12/3/60, soundtrack: 1967)

    1961

  149. Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall (live, recorded 4/23/61, released 7/10/61)
  150. Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard (live, recorded 6/25/61; released 10/61)
  151. Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii (soundtrack, 10/1/61)

    1962

  152. Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (charted 4/21/62)
  153. James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, recorded 10/24/62, released 1/63)
  154. Howlin’ Wolf Moanin’ in the Moonlight/Howlin’ Wolf (aka ‘The Rockin’ Chair Album’) (compilations: 1951-62, released in 1959 and 1962)

    1963

  155. Stan Getz/João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto (recorded 3/19/63)
  156. The Beatles Please Please Me (3/22/63)
  157. Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (5/27/63)
  158. Jerry Herman (composer) Hello, Dolly! (musical: 11/18/63)
  159. The Beatles With the Beatles (11/22/63)
  160. Patsy Cline 12 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1957-63, released 2/4/73)
  161. Elmore James The Sky Is Crying: The History of (compilation: 1951-63; released 4/6/1993)

    1964

  162. Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! (recorded 2/25/64)
  163. The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones (aka ‘England’s Newest Hitmakers’) (4/16/64)
  164. The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night (7/10/64)
  165. Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan (8/8/64)
  166. Richard M. Sherman/Robert B. Sherman (composers) Mary Poppins (soundtrack, released 8/27/64)
  167. Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick (composers) Fiddler on the Roof (stage debut: 9/22/64, cast recording charted 10/31/64, soundtrack charted 10/30/71)
  168. B.B. King Live at the Regal (live, recorded 11/21/64, released 1965)
  169. The Beatles Beatles for Sale (12/4/64)
  170. John Coltrane A Love Supreme (recorded 12/9/64, released 2/65)
  171. Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight (compilation: 1955-65, released 1982)

    1965

  172. Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (3/22/65)
  173. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream & Other Delights (charted 5/15/65)
  174. The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man (6/21/65)
  175. The Beatles Help! (8/6/65)
  176. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (8/30/65)
  177. Otis Redding Otis Blue (8/65)
  178. Junior Wells with Buddy Guy Hoodoo Man Blues (11/65)
  179. The Beatles Rubber Soul (12/3/65)
  180. The Who The Who Sings My Generation (12/20/65)
  181. Sam Cooke The Man and His Music (compilation: 1951-65, released 2/86)
  182. Roy Orbison For the Lonely - 18 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1956-64, released 1/7/89)

    1966

  183. The Rolling Stones Aftermath (4/15/66)
  184. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (5/16/66)
  185. Bob Dylan The Royal Albert Hall Concert (The Bootleg Series Volume 4) (live, recorded 5/17/66)
  186. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (6/20/66)
  187. The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! (6/27/66)
  188. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers/Eric Clapton Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (7/22/66)
  189. The Beatles Revolver (8/5/66)
  190. Simon & Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (9/66)
  191. John Kander/Fred Ebb (composers) Cabaret (musical: 11/20/66, movie: )
  192. Bob Dylan Greatest Hits (compilation: 1962-66, released 3/27/67)

    1967

  193. The Doors The Doors (1/4/67)
  194. The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday (2/6/67)
  195. Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (3/10/67)
  196. The Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (3/12/67)
  197. Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow (charted 3/25/67)
  198. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (5/12/67)
  199. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (6/1/67)
  200. Moby Grape Moby Grape (6/67)
  201. Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign (7/67)
  202. Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (8/5/67)
  203. Byrds Greatest Hits (compilation: 1965-67, released 8/7/67)
  204. The Doors Strange Days (9/25/67)
  205. Galt MacDermot (music) with Gerome Ragni & James Rado (lyrics) Hair (stage debut: 10/17/67, cast recording charted 8/3/68, soundtrack: 1979)
  206. Buffalo Springfield Again (10/30/67)
  207. The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed (11/11/67)
  208. Cream Disraeli Gears (charted 11/18/67)
  209. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (11/27/67)
  210. The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat (11/30/67)
  211. Love Forever Changes (11/67)
  212. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love (12/1/67)
  213. The Who Sell Out (12/16/67)
  214. Leonard Cohen The Songs of Leonard Cohen (12/27/67)
  215. Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding (12/27/67)

    1968

  216. The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1/3/68)
  217. Simon & Garfunkel/Dave Grusin The Graduate (soundtrack, 1/21/68)
  218. Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (live, recorded 1/13/68, released 3/1/68)
  219. Aretha Franklin Lady Soul (1/22/68)
  220. The Mothers of Invention We’re Only in It for the Money (3/4/68)
  221. Simon & Garfunkel Bookends (3/68)
  222. The Zombies Odessey & Oracle (4/68)
  223. Iron Butterfly In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida (6/14/68)
  224. The Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (charted 6/23/68)
  225. Cream Wheels of Fire (studio/live, 6/68)
  226. The Band Music from Big Pink (7/1/68)
  227. Big Brother & the Holding Company Cheap Thrills (8/12/68)
  228. The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo (8/30/68)
  229. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (9/16/68)
  230. The MC5 Kick Out the Jams (live, recorded 10/30-31/68, charted 3/8/69)
  231. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (11/22/68)
  232. The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society (11/22/68)
  233. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (11/68)
  234. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (12/6/68)
  235. Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears (12/11/68)
  236. Various Artists Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (box set: 1964-68, released 9/72)
  237. Bob Dylan & The Band The Basement Tapes (archives, recorded 1967-68, released 6/26/75)
  238. Ray Charles Anthology (compilation: 1955-68, charted 10/29/88)

    1969

  239. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I (1/12/69)
  240. Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis (1/18/69)
  241. Johnny Cash At San Quentin (live, recorded 2/24/69, released 6/4/69)
  242. The Grateful Dead Live/Dead (live, recorded 3/2/69, released 11/10/69)
  243. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground (3/31/69)
  244. Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline (4/9/69)
  245. Sly & the Family Stone Stand! (charted 4/26/69)
  246. Chicago Chicago Transit Authority (4/69)
  247. The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin (charted 5/3/69)
  248. Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (5/14/69)
  249. The Who Tommy (5/23/69)
  250. Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash (5/29/69)
  251. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (6/16/69)
  252. Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul (charted 7/12/69)
  253. Blind Faith Blind Faith (7/21/69)
  254. Various Artists Woodstock (live soundtrack, recorded 8/15-18/69, released 8/70)
  255. The Stooges The Stooges (charted 8/23/69)
  256. Nick Drake Five Leaves Left (9/1/69)
  257. Miles Davis In a Silent Way (charted 9/6/69)
  258. Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River (charted 9/13/69)
  259. The Band The Band (9/22/69)
  260. The Beatles Abbey Road (9/26/69)
  261. King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (10/10/69)
  262. Frank Zappa Hot Rats (10/10/69)
  263. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II (10/22/69)
  264. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (11/28/69)
  265. Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys (charted 12/13/69)
  266. The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out (live, recorded 11/28/69, released 9/4/70)
  267. Fairport Convention Liege and Lief (12/69)
  268. Willie Dixon/various artists The Chess Box (compilation: 1951-69, released 1988)
  269. Various Artists produced by Phil Spector Back to Mono (box set: 1958-69, released 11/12/91)

    1970

  270. Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys (live, recorded 12/31/69 to 1/1/70, charted 5/2/70)
  271. Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (1/26/70)
  272. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath (2/13/70)
  273. The Who Live at Leeds (live, recorded 2/14/70, released 5/16/70)
  274. Van Morrison Moondance (2/28/70)
  275. Crosby, Stills & Nash Déjà Vu (3/11/70)
  276. James Taylor Sweet Baby James (charted 3/14/70)
  277. The Beatles Let It Be (5/8/70)
  278. Miles Davis Bitches Brew (charted 5/16/70)
  279. Deep Purple In Rock (charted 6/3/70)
  280. Grateful Dead Workingman’s Dead (6/14/70)
  281. The Stooges Fun House (7/7/70)
  282. Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory (charted 7/25/70)
  283. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (8/31/70)
  284. Velvet Underground Loaded (8/31/70)
  285. Black Sabbath Paranoid (charted 9/19/70)
  286. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III (10/5/70)
  287. Santana Abraxas (charted 10/10/70)
  288. Grateful Dead American Beauty (11/1/70)
  289. Nick Drake Bryter Layter (11/1/70)
  290. Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (charted 11/21/70)
  291. Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice (composers) Jesus Christ Superstar (studio: 11/21/70, stage debut: 10/12/71, soundtrack: 6/30/73)
  292. Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman (11/23/70)
  293. George Harrison All Things Must Pass (11/27/70)
  294. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (12/11/70)
  295. Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits (compilation: 1964-70, released 6/20/72)
  296. The Beatles 1 (compilation: 1962-70, released 11/14/00)

    1971

  297. Janis Joplin Pearl (1/11/71)
  298. Carole King Tapestry (2/10/71)
  299. The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East (live, recorded 3/12/71 to 3/13/71, released 7/71)
  300. Jethro Tull Aqualung (charted 3/19/71)
  301. Yes The Yes Album (3/19/71)
  302. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (4/23/71)
  303. The Doors L.A. Woman (4/29/71)
  304. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (5/21/71)
  305. Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story (charted 6/19/71)
  306. Joni Mitchell Blue (6/22/71)
  307. The Who Who’s Next (8/14/71)
  308. John Lennon Imagine (9/9/71)
  309. T-Rex Electric Warrior (9/24/71)
  310. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (11/8/71)
  311. Sly & the Family Stone There’s a Riot Goin’ On (charted 11/13/71)
  312. Yes Fragile (11/26/71)
  313. The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-71 (compilation: 1964-71, released 12/15/71)
  314. David Bowie Hunky Dory (12/17/71)
  315. Janis Joplin Greatest Hits (compilation: 1967-71, charted 7/14/73)
  316. The Doors The Best of (compilation: 1966-71, charted 8/8/87)
  317. Various Artists Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 (box set: 1959-71, released 11/13/92)

    1972

  318. Neil Young Harvest (2/14/72)
  319. Nick Drake Pink Moon (2/25/72)
  320. John Prine John Prine (charted 2/26/72)
  321. Deep Purple Machine Head (3/25/72)
  322. Todd Rundgren Something/Anything? (charted 3/25/72)
  323. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (5/12/72)
  324. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (6/6/72)
  325. Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won (live box set, recorded 6/25/72 and 6/27/72, released 5/27/03)
  326. Jimmy Cliff et al The Harder They Come (soundtrack, released 7/7/72)
  327. Curtis Mayfield Superfly (soundtrack, 7/72)
  328. Deep Purple Made in Japan (live, recorded 8/15/72 to 8/17/72, charted 4/21/73)
  329. Neil Diamond Hot August Night (live, recorded 8/24/72, charted 12/9/72)
  330. Yes Close to the Edge (9/13/72)
  331. Stevie Wonder Talking Book (10/27/72)
  332. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken (10/72)
  333. Lou Reed Transformer (11/8/72)
  334. Steely Dan Can’t Buy a Thrill (11/72)
  335. The Temptations Anthology (compilation: 1964-72, released 8/23/73)
  336. John Denver Greatest Hits (compilation: 1969-72, released 11/15/73)
  337. Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle (compilation: 1968-72, charted 3/6/76)

    1973

  338. Gram Parsons G.P. (1/73)
  339. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (3/1/73)
  340. Roxy Music For Your Pleasure (3/23/73)
  341. Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy (3/28/73)
  342. Bob Marley & the Wailers Catch a Fire (4/13/73)
  343. David Bowie Aladdin Sane (4/13/73)
  344. Iggy & the Stooges Raw Power (charted 4/28/73)
  345. Al Green Call Me (charted 5/19/73)
  346. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells (5/25/73)
  347. ZZ Top Tres Hombres (7/26/73)
  348. Lou Reed Berlin (7/73)
  349. Various Artists American Graffiti (soundtrack, 8/2/73)
  350. Stevie Wonder Innervisions (8/3/73)
  351. Marvin Gaye Let’s Get It On (8/28/73)
  352. New York Dolls New York Dolls (charted 9/1/73)
  353. Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (charted 9/22/73)
  354. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (10/5/73)
  355. Genesis Selling England by the Pound (charted 10/13/73)
  356. Herbie Hancock Head Hunters (10/13/73)
  357. The Who Quadrophenia (10/19/73)
  358. Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run (12/5/73)
  359. Neil Young Tonight’s the Night (recorded 1973, released 7/12/75)
  360. Al Green Greatest Hits (compilation: 1971-73, charted 3/22/75)
  361. The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers (recorded 1973, released 1976)
  362. Sly & the Family Stone Anthology (includes all of 1970’s Greatest Hits) (compilation: 1968-73, released 1981)

    1974

  363. Joni Mitchell Court and Spark (1/17/74)
  364. Gram Parsons Grievous Angel (charted 2/16/74)
  365. Steely Dan Pretzel Logic (2/20/74)
  366. Big Star Radio City (2/74)
  367. Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (4/74)
  368. David Bowie Diamond Dogs (5/24/74)
  369. Bad Company Bad Company (6/26/74)
  370. Neil Young On the Beach (7/16/74)
  371. Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard (charted 7/20/74)
  372. Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness’ First Finale (7/22/74)
  373. Bob Marley & The Wailers Natty Dread (10/25/74)
  374. Kraftwerk Autobahn (11/1/74)
  375. Elton John Greatest Hits (compilation: 1970-74, released 11/4/74)
  376. Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (11/18/74)
  377. Supertramp Crime of the Century (charted 12/7/74)
  378. Various Artists Atlantic Rhythm & Blues (box set: 1947-74, released 10/15/91)
  379. Aretha Franklin Queen of Soul: The Very Best of (compilation: 1967-74, released 10/17/94)

    1975

  380. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1/17/75)
  381. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (2/24/75)
  382. Earth, Wind & Fire That’s the Way of the World (soundtrack, charted 3/15/75)
  383. Aerosmith Toys in the Attic (4/8/75)
  384. Elton John Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (5/19/75)
  385. John Kander & Fred Ebb (composers) Chicago (musical: 6/3/1975; soundtrack released 1/14/2003)
  386. Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac (7/11/75)
  387. Bob Marley & the Wailers Live! (At the Lyceum) (live, recorded 7/18/75, released 12/19/75)
  388. Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger (charted 7/26/75)
  389. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (8/25/75)
  390. Kiss Alive! (live, 9/10/75)
  391. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here (9/15/75)
  392. Brian Eno Another Green World (9/75)
  393. Patti Smith Horses (11/8/75)
  394. Queen A Night at the Opera (11/21/75)
  395. Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! (live, recorded 3/24/75 to 11/22/75, charted 1/31/76)
  396. Parliament Mothership Connection (12/15/75)
  397. Big Star Third/Sister Lovers (recorded 1975, released 7/78)

    1976

  398. Bob Dylan Desire (1/16/76)
  399. David Bowie Station to Station (1/23/76)
  400. Rush 2112 (charted 4/10/76)
  401. Ramones Ramones (4/23/76)
  402. Aerosmith Rocks (charted 5/29/76)
  403. Boston Boston (8/25/76)
  404. Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (9/28/76)
  405. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Night Moves (10/1/76)
  406. Abba Arrival (10/11/76)
  407. James Taylor Greatest Hits (compilation: 1968-76, released 11/1/76)
  408. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice (composers) Evita (studio album: 11/19/76, stage debut: 6/21/78, soundtrack: 11/12/96)
  409. The Doobie Brothers Best of the Doobies (compilation: 1972-76, released 11/20/76)
  410. The Band The Last Waltz (live, recorded 11/26/76; released April 1978)
  411. Eagles Hotel California (12/8/76)
  412. Neil Young Decade (compilation: 1966-76, charted 11/26/77)
  413. The Supremes Anthology (compilation: 1962-76, released 1986)

    1977

  414. David Bowie Low (1/14/77)
  415. Pink Floyd Animals (1/23/77)
  416. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (2/4/77)
  417. Television Marquee Moon (2/8/77)
  418. The Clash The Clash (4/8/77)
  419. Kraftwerk Trans-Europa Express (Trans Europe Express) (charted 4/16/77)
  420. Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus (6/3/77)
  421. Styx The Grand Illusion (7/7/1977)
  422. Elvis Costello My Aim Is True (7/22/77)
  423. Iggy Pop Lust for Life (charted 9/17/77)
  424. Billy Joel The Stranger (9/29/77)
  425. Steely Dan Aja (10/8/77)
  426. David Bowie Heroes (10/14/77)
  427. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (10/21/77)
  428. The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (10/28/77)
  429. Various Artists (Bee Gees et al) Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 11/15/77)
  430. Eric Clapton Slowhand (charted 11/26/77)
  431. Wire Pink Flag (11/77)
  432. Jackson Browne Running on Empty (12/6/77)
  433. Elvis Presley 30 #1 Hits (compilation: 1956-77, released 9/24/02)

    1978

  434. Van Halen Van Halen (2/10/78)
  435. Elvis Costello & The Attractions This Year’s Model (3/17/78)
  436. Various Artists (including Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta) Grease (soundtrack, 4/14/78)
  437. Cheap Trick At Budokan (live, recorded 4/78, charted 2/24/79)
  438. Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town (6/2/78)
  439. The Cars The Cars (6/6/78)
  440. The Rolling Stones Some Girls (6/9/78)
  441. Dire Straits Dire Straits (charted 7/22/78)
  442. Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (7/78)
  443. Blondie Parallel Lines (charted 9/16/78)
  444. Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove (charted 10/7/78)
  445. Billy Joel 52nd Street (charted 10/28/78)
  446. The Police Outlandos D’Amour (11/2/78)
  447. The Jam All Mod Cons (11/3/78)
  448. Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978 (compilation: 1974-78, released 11/15/78)
  449. Rod Stewart Greatest Hits (compilation: 1971-78, charted 11/24/79)

    1979

  450. Elvis Costello & the Attractions Armed Forces (1/5/79)
  451. Bee Gees Spirits Having Flown (charted 2/17/79)
  452. Stephen Sondheim (composer) Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (stage debut: 3/1/79, cast: 1979, soundtrack charted 1/5/08)
  453. Supertramp Breakfast in America (charted 3/31/79)
  454. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (6/14/79)
  455. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Rust Never Sleeps (7/2/79)
  456. AC/DC Highway to Hell (8/3/79)
  457. Talking Heads Fear of Music (8/3/79)
  458. The B-52s The B-52s (charted 8/4/79)
  459. Michael Jackson Off the Wall (8/10/79)
  460. Eagles The Long Run (9/24/79)
  461. Gang of Four Entertainment! (9/79)
  462. Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady (compilation: 1977-79, released 9/79)
  463. The Police Reggatta De Blanc (10/5/79)
  464. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Damn the Torpedoes (10/19/79)
  465. The Specials The Specials (10/19/79)
  466. Public Image Ltd. Metal Box (aka “Second Edition”) (11/23/79)
  467. Pink Floyd The Wall (11/30/79)
  468. The Clash London Calling (12/14/79)
  469. Aerosmith Greatest Hits (compilation: 1973-79, charted 11/29/80)
  470. Led Zeppelin Mothership (compilation: 1969-79, released 11/12/2007)

    1980

  471. Pretenders Pretenders (1/7/80)
  472. Billy Joel Glass Houses (3/10/80)
  473. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Against the Wind (charted 3/15/80)
  474. Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (third album) (5/30/80)
  475. Queen The Game (6/30/80)
  476. Joy Division Closer (7/18/80)
  477. AC/DC Back in Black (7/25/80)
  478. Dexy’s Midnight Runners Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (charted 7/26/80)
  479. David Bowie Scary Monsters (9/12/80)
  480. Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (charted 9/13/80)
  481. Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz (charted 9/20/80)
  482. Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) with Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics) Les Misérables (stage debut: 9/22/80, cast: 10/8/85, soundtrack: 12/21/12)
  483. Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits (compilation: 1977-80, released 9/23/80)
  484. The Police Zenyatta Mondatta (10/3/80)
  485. Talking Heads Remain in Light (10/8/80)
  486. Bruce Springsteen The River (10/10/80)
  487. John Lennon/Yoko Ono Double Fantasy (11/17/80)
  488. REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity (11/21/80)
  489. Blondie Best of (compilation: 1976-80, charted 10/30/81)
  490. John Lennon The Collection (compilation: 1969-80, released 11/1/1982)
  491. Frank Sinatra Best of the Best (compilation: 1953-80; released 11/15/2011)

    1981

  492. Styx Paradise Theater (charted 1/31/81)
  493. Phil Collins Face Value (2/9/81)
  494. Rush Moving Pictures (2/12/81)
  495. Motörhead No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (live, recorded 3/28/80 to 3/30/81, charted 6/27/81)
  496. Foreigner 4 (7/2/81)
  497. Journey Escape (7/17/81)
  498. The Rolling Stones Tattoo You (8/30/81)
  499. The Police Ghost in the Machine (charted 10/2/81)
  500. The Human League Dare! (10/16/81)
  501. Queen Greatest Hits (compilation: 1973-81, released 11/3/81)
  502. Men at Work Business As Usual (11/9/81)
  503. Barbra Streisand Memories (released as Love Songs in the UK) (compilation: 1974-81, released 11/81)
  504. Black Flag Damaged (12/5/81)
  505. Bob Dylan Biograph (box: 1962-81, released 11/7/85)
  506. Eric Clapton The Cream of Clapton (compilation: 1966-81, released 3/7/95)
  507. Carpenters The Singles 1969-1981 (includes all of The Singles 1969-1973) (compilation: 1969-81, released 5/23/00)

    1982

  508. Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out the Lights (3/15/82)
  509. Asia Asia (3/18/82)
  510. Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast (3/22/82)
  511. Duran Duran Rio (3/29/82)
  512. Toto Toto IV (4/8/82)
  513. John Cougar (Mellencamp) American Fool (4/12/82)
  514. Roxy Music Avalon (charted 6/5/82)
  515. ABC Lexicon of Love (6/21/82)
  516. Elvis Costello & The Attractions Imperial Bedroom (7/2/82)
  517. Bruce Springsteen Nebraska (9/20/82)
  518. Prince 1999 (10/27/82)
  519. Donald Fagen The Nightfly (charted 10/30/82)
  520. Michael Jackson Thriller (11/30/82)
  521. Abba Gold: Greatest Hits (compilation: 1974-82, released 9/21/92)
  522. The Who Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy/Ultimate Collection (compilation: 1964-82, released 6/11/02)

    1983

  523. Def Leppard Pyromania (1/20/83)
  524. U2 War (2/28/83)
  525. R.E.M. Murmur (4/11/83)
  526. David Bowie Let’s Dance (4/11/83)
  527. Violent Femmes Violent Femmes (4/13/83)
  528. Various Artists Flashdance (soundtrack, 4/15/83)
  529. ZZ Top Eliminator (charted 4/23/83)
  530. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Texas Flood (6/13/83)
  531. The Police Synchronicity (charted 6/17/83)
  532. Madonna Madonna (7/27/83)
  533. U2 Under a Blood Red Sky (live, recorded 8/20/83)
  534. Billy Joel An Innocent Man (charted 8/20/83)
  535. Huey Lewis & The News Sports (9/15/83)
  536. Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones (9/83)
  537. Lionel Richie Can’t Slow Down (10/11/83)
  538. Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual 10/14/83)
  539. Culture Club Colour by Numbers (10/22/83)
  540. Talking Heads Stop Making Sense (live soundtrack, recorded 12/83, charted 9/22/84)
  541. Bob Marley & the Wailers Legend (compilation: 1973-83, released 5/8/84)

    1984

  542. Van Halen 1984 (1/9/84)
  543. Various Artists Footloose (soundtrack, 1/31/84)
  544. The Smiths The Smiths (2/20/84)
  545. Tina Turner Private Dancer (5/29/84)
  546. Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. (6/4/84)
  547. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 6/25/84)
  548. Sade Diamond Life (charted 7/28/84)
  549. Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime (7/84)
  550. Metallica Ride the Lightning (charted 9/29/84)
  551. Hüsker Dü Zen Arcade (9/84)
  552. U2 The Unforgettable Fire (10/1/84)
  553. The Replacements Let It Be (10/2/84)
  554. Bryan Adams Reckless (10/29/84)
  555. Wham! Make It Big (11/5/84)
  556. Madonna Like a Virgin (11/12/84)
  557. James Brown Star Time (box set: 1956-84, released 5/7/91)

    1985

  558. Whitney Houston Whitney Houston
  559. Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair (2/17/85)
  560. Phil Collins No Jacket Required (2/18/85)
  561. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (5/13/85)
  562. Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles (6/1/85)
  563. Marillion Misplaced Childhood (6/17/85)
  564. Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & II (compilation: 1973-85, released 7/2/85)
  565. John Cougar Mellencamp Scarecrow (8/5/85)
  566. Kate Bush Hounds of Love (charted 9/28/85)
  567. Tom Waits Rain Dogs (9/30/85)
  568. Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy (charted 11/30/85)
  569. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live 1975/1985 (live box: 1975-85, released 11/10/86)

    1986

  570. Janet Jackson Control (2/6/86)
  571. Metallica Master of Puppets (2/24/86)
  572. Prince & the Revolution Parade (3/31/86)
  573. Anita Baker Rapture (charted 4/16/86)
  574. Peter Gabriel So (5/13/86)
  575. Various Artists Top Gun (soundtrack, 5/20/86)
  576. Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell (5/27/86)
  577. Genesis Invisible Touch (6/9/86)
  578. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (6/28/86)
  579. Madonna True Blue (6/30/86)
  580. Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet (8/18/86)
  581. Paul Simon Graceland (8/25/86)
  582. Andrew Lloyd Webber/Charles Hart/Richard Stigoe (composers) Phantom of the Opera (cast, opened 10/9/86)
  583. The Police Every Breath You Take – The Singles (compilation: 1978-1986; released 10/27/86)
  584. Slayer Reign in Blood (10/28/86)
  585. Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill (11/11/86)
  586. Robert Cray Strong Persuader (charted 11/15/86)

    1987

  587. U2 The Joshua Tree (3/17/87)
  588. Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (3/30/87)
  589. Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night (4/13/87)
  590. Whitney Houston Whitney (6/2/87)
  591. Eric B. & Rakim Paid in Full (7/9/87)
  592. Terence Trent D’Arby Introducing the Hardline… (7/13/87)
  593. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (7/21/87)
  594. Def Leppard Hysteria (8/3/87)
  595. New Order Substance (compilation: 1981-87, released 8/11/87)
  596. Michael Jackson Bad (8/31/87)
  597. Various Artists Dirty Dancing (soundtrack, 9/1/87)
  598. R.E.M. Document (9/8/87)
  599. Paul McCartney All the Best! (compilation: 1970-87, released 9/18/87)
  600. Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love (10/9/87)
  601. INXS Kick (10/20/87)
  602. George Michael Faith (11/3/87)
  603. Eric Clapton Crossroads (1963-87, released 4/18/88)
  604. Journey Greatest Hits (compilation: 1978-87, released 11/15/88)
  605. Bee Gees Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits (compilation: 1966-87, released 4/21/17)

    1988

  606. Pixies Surfer Rosa (3/21/88)
  607. Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman (4/5/88)
  608. Bobby Brown Don’t Be Cruel (6/20/88)
  609. Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl (6/21/88)
  610. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (6/28/88)
  611. Metallica …And Justice for All (8/25/88)
  612. New Kids on the Block Hangin’ Tough (charted 8/27/88)
  613. Bon Jovi New Jersey (9/20/88)
  614. U2 Rattle and Hum (studio/live soundtrack, 10/11/88)
  615. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (10/88)
  616. R.E.M. Green (11/8/88)
  617. Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits (compilation: 1975-88, released 11/22/88)
  618. Beach Boys Very Best of (compilation: 1962-88; released 6/30/01)

    1989

  619. N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1/10/89)
  620. Milli Vanilli Girl You Know It’s True (aka All or Nothing) (3/7/89)
  621. De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising (3/14/89)
  622. Madonna Like a Prayer (3/21/89)
  623. Bonnie Raitt Nick of Time (3/21/89)
  624. The Pixies Doolittle (4/18/89)
  625. Tom Petty Full Moon Fever (4/24/89)
  626. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (5/2/89)
  627. The Cure Disintegration (5/2/89)
  628. Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique (7/25/89)
  629. Aerosmith Pump (9/12/89)
  630. Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 (9/19/89)
  631. Phil Collins …But Seriously (11/17/89)
  632. Van Morrison Best of (compilation: 1965-89, charted 4/7/90)
  633. Eurythmics Greatest Hits (compilation: 1983-89; released 5/24/91)
  634. U2 Best of 1980-1990 (compilation: 1980-89, released 11/3/98)

    1990

  635. M.C. Hammer Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (2/12/90)
  636. David Bowie ChangesBowie (compilation: 1969-90, released 3/4/90)
  637. Depeche Mode Violator (3/19/90)
  638. Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet (3/20/90)
  639. Sinéad O’Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (3/20/90)
  640. Mariah Carey Mariah Carey (6/12/90)
  641. Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, & Jose Carreras The Three Tenors in Concert/Mehta (live, recorded 7/7/1990)
  642. Garth Brooks No Fences (8/27/90)
  643. Vanilla Ice To the Extreme (9/10/90)
  644. Madonna The Immaculate Collection (compilation: 1983-90, released 11/13/90)
  645. Happy Mondays Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches (charted 11/17/90)
  646. Olivia Newton-John Magic: The Best Of (compilation: 1973-90, released 11/9/01)

    1991

  647. R.E.M. Out of Time (3/12/91)
  648. Boyz II Men Cooleyhighharmony (4/30/91)
  649. Natalie Cole Unforgettable: With Love (covers, 6/11/91)
  650. Crowded House Woodface (7/2/91)
  651. Massive Attack Blue Lines (8/6/91)
  652. Metallica Metallica (aka “The Black Album”) (8/12/91)
  653. Pearl Jam Ten (8/27/91)
  654. Garth Brooks Ropin’ the Wind (9/2/91)
  655. Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion I (9/17/91)
  656. Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion II (9/17/91)
  657. Nirvana Nevermind (9/24/91)
  658. Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik (9/24/91)
  659. A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory (9/24/91)
  660. Primal Scream Screamadelica (10/8/91)
  661. Alan Menken (music) with Howard Ashman & Tim Rice (lyrics) Beauty and the Beast (movie: 10/29/91, musical: 4/18/94)
  662. Queen Greatest Hits II (compilation: 1981-91, released 10/30/91)
  663. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (11/5/91)
  664. Pet Shop Boys Discography – The Complete Singles Collection (compilation: 1985-91, released 11/5/91)
  665. U2 Achtung Baby (11/19/91)
  666. Michael Jackson Dangerous (11/26/91)
  667. Various Artists The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song (1926-91, released 9/14/92)

    1992

  668. Tori Amos Little Earthquakes (1/13/92)
  669. Eric Clapton Unplugged (live, recorded 1/16/92; released 8/25/92)
  670. Pavement Slanted and Enchanted (charted 3/31/92)
  671. Lionel Richie Back to Front (compilation: 1977-92, released 5/5/92)
  672. Billy Ray Cyrus Some Gave All (5/19/92)
  673. Alice in Chains Dirt (9/29/92)
  674. Stone Temple Pilots Core (9/29/92)
  675. R.E.M. Automatic for the People (10/6/92)
  676. Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (11/3/92)
  677. Various artists (Whitney Houston e al) The Bodyguard (soundtrack, 11/17/92)
  678. Dr. Dre The Chronic (12/15/92)
  679. Prince Very Best of (compilation: 1979-92, released 7/31/01)

    1993

  680. Sting Ten Summoner’s Tales (3/9/93)
  681. Janet Jackson janet. (5/18/93)
  682. Ace of Base The Sign (6/1/93)
  683. Liz Phair Exile in Guyville (6/22/93)
  684. U2 Zooropa (7/5/93)
  685. Björk Debut (7/13/93)
  686. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (7/27/93)
  687. Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club (8/3/93)
  688. Mariah Carey Music Box (8/31/93)
  689. Counting Crows August and Everything After (9/14/93)
  690. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (9/14/93)
  691. Nirvana In Utero (9/21/93)
  692. Pearl Jam Vs. (10/19/93)
  693. Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (10/22/93)
  694. Bryan Adams So Far So Good (compilation: 1982-93, released 11/2/93)
  695. Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (11/9/93)
  696. Celine Dion The Colour of My Love (11/9/93)
  697. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits (compilation: 1977-93, released 11/16/93)
  698. Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (recorded live 11/18/93, released 11/1/94)
  699. Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle (11/23/93)
  700. Garth Brooks The Hits (compilation: 1989-93: released 12/13/94)

    1994

  701. Green Day Dookie (2/1/94)
  702. Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (charted 2/26/94)
  703. Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral (3/8/94)
  704. Soundgarden Superunknown (3/8/94)
  705. The Offspring Smash (4/11/94)
  706. Hole Live Through This (4/12/94)
  707. Live Throwing Copper (4/19/94)
  708. Nas Illmatic (4/19/94)
  709. Blur Parklife (4/25/94)
  710. Johnny Cash American Recordings (4/26/94)
  711. Weezer Weezer (aka “The Blue Album”) (5/10/94)
  712. Beastie Boys Ill Communication (5/23/94)
  713. Elton John/ Tim Rice/ Hans Zimmer (composers) The Lion King (soundtrack, 6/4/94)
  714. various artists Forrest Gump (soundtrack, 6/28/94)
  715. Hootie & the Blowfish Cracked Rear View (7/5/94)
  716. Jeff Buckley Grace (8/23/94)
  717. Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible (8/29/94)
  718. Oasis Definitely Maybe (8/30/94)
  719. Boyz II Men II (8/30/94)
  720. Portishead Dummy (charted 9/3/94)
  721. The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die (9/13/94)
  722. Eric Clapton: From the Cradle (covers, 9/13/94)
  723. various artists Pulp Fiction (soundtrack, 9/27/94)
  724. Bon Jovi Cross Road (compilation: 1984-94, released 10/18/94)
  725. Bob Seger Greatest Hits (compilation: 1976-94, released 10/25/94)
  726. Sting Fields of Gold – The Best of (compilation: 1985-94, released 11/8/94)
  727. TLC CrazySexyCool (11/15/94)
  728. Pearl Jam Vitalogy (12/6/94)
  729. Pink Floyd Echoes: The Best of (compilation: 1967-1994, released 11/6/01)
  730. Nirvana Nirvana (Greatest Hits) (compilation: 1988-94, released 10/29/02)
  731. Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits (compilation: 1987-94, released 3/23/04)

    1995

  732. Shania Twain The Woman in Me (2/7/95)
  733. Tricky Maxinquaye (2/20/95)
  734. PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love (2/28/95)
  735. Jewel Pieces of You (2/28/95)
  736. Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits (compilation: 1975-95, released 2/28/95)
  737. Radiohead The Bends (3/13/95)
  738. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (6/13/95)
  739. Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball (9/26/95)
  740. Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (10/3/95)
  741. Mariah Carey Daydream (10/3/95)
  742. No Doubt Tragic Kingdom (10/10/95)
  743. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (10/24/95)
  744. Alan Jackson The Greatest Hits Collection (compilation: 1989-95, released 10/24/95)
  745. Pulp Different Class (10/30/95)
  746. Various Artists (Whitney Houston et al) Waiting to Exhale (soundtrack, 11/14/95)

    1996

  747. Fugees The Score (2/12/96)
  748. Tupac Shakur (2pac) All Eyez on Me (2/13/96)
  749. Celine Dion Falling into You (3/11/96)
  750. Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go (5/20/96)
  751. Beck Odelay (6/18/96)
  752. Matchbox 20 Yourself or Someone Like You (10/1/96)
  753. Tool Ænima (10/1/96)
  754. Spice Girls Spice (11/4/96)
  755. Belle & Sebastian If You’re Feeling Sinister (11/18/96)
  756. DJ Shadow Endtroducing… (11/19/96)

    1997

  757. The Notorious B.I.G. Life after Death (3/25/97)
  758. Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole (4/7/97)
  759. Radiohead OK Computer (6/16/97)
  760. Various Artists Buena Vista Social Club (6/21/97)
  761. The Prodigy Fat of the Land (7/1/97)
  762. Sarah McLachlan Surfacing (7/15/97)
  763. The Verve Urban Hymns (9/30/97)
  764. Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind (9/30/97)
  765. Shania Twain Come on Over (11/4/97)
  766. Celine Dion Let’s Talk about Love (11/15/97)
  767. James Horner (composer) Titanic (soundtrack, 11/18/97)

    1998

  768. Air Moon Safari (1/19/98)
  769. Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces (1/27/98)
  770. Madonna Ray of Light (3/3/98)
  771. Massive Attack Mezzanine (4/20/98)
  772. Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (6/30/98)
  773. Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (8/25/98)
  774. Phil Collins Hits (compilation: 1981-98, released 10/5/98)
  775. Garth Brooks Double Live (live, 11/17/98)
  776. Mariah Carey #1’s (compilation: 1990-98, released 11/17/98)
  777. Stevie Wonder The Definitive Collection (compilation: 1962-98, released 10/29/02)

    1999

  778. Britney Spears …Baby One More Time (1/12/99)
  779. Eminem The Slim Shady LP (2/23/99)
  780. Moby Play (5/17/99)
  781. The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin (5/17/99)
  782. Backstreet Boys Millennium (5/18/99)
  783. Dido No Angel (6/1/99)
  784. Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (6/8/99)
  785. Santana Supernatural (6/15/99)
  786. Destiny’s Child The Writing’s on the Wall (7/27/99)
  787. Dixie Chicks Fly (8/31/99)
  788. The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (9/7/99)
  789. Creed Human Clay (9/28/99)
  790. Celine Dion All the Way…A Decade of Song (compilation: 1991-99, released 11/13/99)
  791. Tim McGraw Greatest Hits (compilation: 1994-99, released 11/21/00)

    2000

  792. D’Angelo Voodoo (1/11/00)
  793. N Sync No Strings Attached (3/21/00)
  794. David Gray White Ladder (5/13/00)
  795. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (5/23/00)
  796. Nelly Country Grammar (6/27/00)
  797. Coldplay Parachutes (7/10/00)
  798. Madonna Music (9/19/00)
  799. Radiohead Kid A (10/3/00)
  800. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (10/24/00)
  801. OutKast Stankonia (10/31/00)
  802. U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind (10/31/00)
  803. PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (10/31/00)
  804. Various Artists O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack, 12/5/00)
  805. Madonna GHV2 (compilation: 1991-2000, released 11/13/01)
  806. U2 Best of 1990-2000 (compilation: 1991-2000; released 11/5/2002)

    2001

  807. Daft Punk Discovery (3/9/01)
  808. Destiny’s Child Survivor (5/1/01)
  809. Radiohead Amnesiac (5/30/01)
  810. Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (6/5/01)
  811. The White Stripes White Blood Cells (7/3/01)
  812. The Strokes Is This It (7/30/01)
  813. Björk Vespertine (8/28/01)
  814. System of a Down Toxicity (9/4/01)
  815. Bob Dylan Love and Theft (9/11/01)
  816. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (9/18/01)
  817. Jay-Z The Blueprint (9/18/01)
  818. Pink M!ssundaztood (11/20/01)

    2002

  819. Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2/26/02)
  820. The Streets Original Pirate Material (3/25/02)
  821. Eminem The Eminem Show (5/26/02)
  822. Avril Lavigne Let Go (6/4/02)
  823. Nelly Nellyville (6/25/02)
  824. Maroon 5 Songs about Jane (6/25/02)
  825. Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way (7/9/02)
  826. The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (7/16/02)
  827. Bruce Springsteen The Rising (7/30/02)
  828. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (8/20/02)
  829. Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (8/27/02)
  830. Dixie Chicks Home (8/27/02)
  831. Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (8/27/02)
  832. Beck Sea Change (9/24/02)
  833. The Libertines Up the Bracket (10/21/02)
  834. Various Artists (Eminem et al) 8 Mile (10/29/02)
  835. Justin Timberlake Justified (11/5/02)
  836. Shania Twain Up! (11/19/02)

    2003

  837. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2/6/03)
  838. Evanescence Fallen (3/4/03)
  839. Linkin Park Meteora (3/25/03)
  840. The White Stripes Elephant (4/1/03)
  841. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell (4/29/03)
  842. Radiohead Hail to the Thief (6/9/03)
  843. Beyoncé Dangerously in Love (6/17/03)
  844. Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner (7/21/03)
  845. Alan Jackson Greatest Hits Volume 2 and Some Other Stuff (compilation: 1996-2003, released 8/12/03)
  846. OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (9/23/03)
  847. Eagles Very Best of (includes all of 1976’s Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and 1982’s Greatest Hits Volume 2) (compilation: 1971-2003, released 10/21/03)
  848. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (10/21/03)
  849. R.E.M. In Time – The Best of 1988-2003 (compilation: 1988-2003, released 10/28/03)
  850. Jay-Z The Black Album (11/4/03)
  851. Michael Jackson Number Ones (compilation: 1978-2003, released 11/17/03)
  852. Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits (compilation: 1989-2003, released 11/17/03)
  853. Alicia Keys The Diary of… (12/2/03)
  854. Johnny Cash The Legend of… (compilation: 1955-2003, released 8/2/05)

    2004

  855. Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (2/9/04)
  856. Kanye West The College Dropout (2/10/04)
  857. Norah Jones Feels Like Home (2/10/04)
  858. Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters (3/9/04)
  859. Usher Confessions (3/23/04)
  860. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (4/6/04)
  861. Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose (4/27/04)
  862. Keane Hopes and Fears (5/10/04)
  863. Streets A Grand Don’t Come for Free (5/10/04)
  864. The Killers Hot Fuss (6/7/04)
  865. Arcade Fire Funeral (9/14/04)
  866. Green Day American Idiot (9/21/04)
  867. Brian Wilson Smile (9/28/04)
  868. James Blunt Back to Bedlam (10/11/04)
  869. Robbie Williams Greatest Hits (compilation: 1997-2004, released 10/12/04)
  870. Shania Twain Greatest Hits (compilation: 1994-2004, released 11/8/04)
  871. Eminem Encore (11/12/04)
  872. U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (11/23/04)
  873. Kelly Clarkson Breakaway (11/30/04)

    2005

  874. Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (1/25/05)
  875. Bloc Party Silent Alarm (2/2/05)
  876. Jack Johnson In Between Dreams (3/1/05)
  877. 50 Cent The Massacre (3/3/05)
  878. Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi (4/12/05)
  879. Gorillaz Demon Days (5/24/05)
  880. Coldplay X & Y (6/6/05)
  881. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (7/4/05)
  882. Kanye West Late Registration (8/30/05)
  883. Nickelback All the Right Reasons (10/4/05)
  884. Carrie Underwood Some Hearts (11/15/05)
  885. Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits (compilation: 1999-2005, charted 12/4/05)

    2006

  886. Various Artists High School Musical (TV soundtrack, 1/10/06)
  887. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (1/23/06)
  888. Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (5/9/06)
  889. Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way (5/23/06)
  890. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (7/6/2006)
  891. Bob Dylan Modern Times (8/29/06)
  892. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (9/12/06)
  893. Amy Winehouse Back to Black (10/6/06)
  894. Taylor Swift Taylor Swift (10/24/06)

    2007

  895. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (3/20/07)
  896. Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare (4/23/07)
  897. The National Boxer (5/22/07)
  898. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (6/5/07)
  899. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (7/8/07)
  900. High School Musical 2 (TV soundtrack, 8/14/07)
  901. Kanye West Graduation (9/11/07)
  902. Bruce Springsteen Magic (10/2/07)
  903. Radiohead In Rainbows (10/10/07)
  904. Robert Plant & Allison Krauss Raising Sand (10/23/07)

    2008

  905. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (1/28/08)
  906. Adele 19 (1/28/08)
  907. Lil’ Wayne Tha Carter III (5/13/08)
  908. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (6/3/08)
  909. Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (6/11/08)
  910. Lady Gaga The Fame (8/19/08)
  911. Kings of Leon Only by the Night (9/19/08)
  912. Taylor Swift Fearless (11/11/08)
  913. Beyoncé I Am…Sasha Fierce (11/11/08)

    2009

  914. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (1/20/09)
  915. U2 No Line on the Horizon (3/2/09)
  916. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) (6/3/09)
  917. Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (10/2/09)

    2010

  918. Lady Antebellum Need You Now (1/26/10)
  919. The National High Violet (5/11/10)
  920. Janelle Monáe The Arch Android (5/18/10)
  921. LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening (5/18/10)
  922. The Black Keys Brothers (5/18/10)
  923. Eminem Recovery (6/21/10)
  924. Arcade Fire The Suburbs (8/3/10)
  925. Katy Perry Teenage Dream (8/24/10)
  926. Bruno Mars Doo Wops & Hooligans (10/4/10)
  927. Taylor Swift Speak Now (10/25/10)
  928. Rihanna Loud (11/16/10)
  929. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (11/22/10)

    2011

  930. Adele 21 (1/19/11)
  931. PJ Harvey Let England Shake (2/14/11)
  932. Lady Gaga Born This Way (5/23/11)
  933. Bon Iver Bon Iver (6/17/11)
  934. Ed Sheeran Plus (+) (9/18/11)
  935. Michael Bublé Christmas (10/21/11)
  936. Drake Take Care (11/15/11)

    2012

  937. Lana Del Rey Born to Die (1/27/12)
  938. The Lumineers The Lumineers (4/3/12)
  939. Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (6/19/12)
  940. Frank Ocean Channel Orange (7/10/12)
  941. Imagine Dragons Night Visions (9/4/12)
  942. Mumford & Sons Babel (9/21/12)
  943. Kendrick Lamar Good Kid m.A.A.d. City (10/22/12)
  944. Taylor Swift Red (10/22/12)
  945. Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox (12/6/2012)

    2013

  946. Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience (3/15/13)
  947. Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer, Different Park (3/19/13)
  948. Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City (5/14/13)
  949. Daft Punk Random Access Memories (5/17/13)
  950. Kanye West Yeezus (6/18/13)
  951. Arctic Monkeys AM (9/6/13)
  952. Lorde Pure Heroine (9/27/13)
  953. Various Artists Frozen (soundtrack, 11/25/13)
  954. Beyoncé Beyoncé (12/13/13)

    2014

  955. Beck Morning Phase (2/21/14)
  956. St. Vincent St. Vincent (2/24/14)
  957. The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream (3/18/14)
  958. Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour (5/26/14)
  959. Ed Sheeran X (Multiply) (6/20/14)
  960. U2 Songs of Innocence (9/9/2014)
  961. Taylor Swift 1989 (10/27/14)
  962. D’Angelo & the Vanguard Black Messiah (12/15/14)

    2015

  963. Lin-Manuel Miranda (composer) Hamilton (musical premiered 2/17/15, cast album released 9/25/15)
  964. Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (3/15/15)
  965. Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit (3/20/15)
  966. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell (3/31/15)
  967. Alabama Shakes Sound & Color (4/21/15)
  968. Chris Stapleton Traveller (5/5/15)
  969. The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness (8/28/15)
  970. Adele 25 (11/20/15)

    2016

  971. David Bowie Blackstar (1/15/16)
  972. Rihanna Anti (1/27/16)
  973. Sturgill Simpson A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (4/15/16)
  974. Beyoncé Lemonade (4/23/16)
  975. Drake Views (4/29/16)
  976. Frank Ocean Blond (8/20/16)
  977. Solange A Seat at the Table (9/30/16)
  978. Bruno Mars 24K Magic (11/18/16)

    2017

  979. Ed Sheeran ÷ (Divide) (3/3/17)
  980. Kendrick Lamar Damn. (4/14/17)
  981. Lorde Melodrama (6/16/17)
  982. Various Artists The Greatest Showman (soundtrack, 12/8/2017)

    2018

  983. Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour (3/20/18)
  984. Cardi B Invasion of Privacy (4/6/18)
  985. Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer (4/27/18)
  986. Drake Scorpion (6/29/18)

    2019

  987. Ariana Grande Thank U, Next (2/8/2019)
  988. Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (3/29/2019)
  989. Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! (8/30/2019)
  990. Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding (9/6/2019)

    2020

  991. Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters (4/17/2020)
  992. Taylor Swift Folklore (7/24/2020)
  993. Bruce Springsteen Letter to You (10/23/2020)
  994. Chris Stapleton Starting Over (11/13/2020)

    2021

  995. Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album (1/8/2021)
  996. Olivia Rodrigo Sour (5/21/2021)
  997. Adele 30 (11/17/2021)

    2022

  998. Harry Styles Harry’s House (5/20/2022)
  999. Beyoncé Renaissance (7/29/2022)
  1000. Taylor Swift Midnights (10/21/2022)

How This List Was Created

When I set out to create this list as the 20th century was drawing to a close, my aim was to compile a “best of the best” list; that is, combine all the other “best-of” lists out there into one. The goal in averaging multiple lists together was to weed out the idiocyncrisies of individual lists and create a more objective, definitive best-of list. Here are links to the lists, chart information, and sales data that went into the creation of the DMDB 1000:

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Representing Multiple Genres

One of the huge bonuses in compiling lots of lists is the better representation of multiple genres of music. Most lists are very skewered toward post-‘50s rock and roll. By pooling lists from multiple sources, the DMDB 1000 represents classical, show tunes, jazz, folk, country, R&B, rock and roll, adult contemporary, pop, rap, and more.

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Multiple Versions of the Same Album or Work

Representing multiple genres poses a challenge, however. There are cases where there are multiple versions of the same work. When that occurred, all versions are compiled into one entry. This possibility most likely occurred in one of three situations:

  1. classical works that are recorded multiple times (example: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations is listed as being composed by Bach in 1741 and no specific recordings of that work are noted).

  2. cast album recordings that later surfaced as soundtracks as well (example: 1959’s The Sound of Music cast album and 1965’s soundtrack version are listed as one entry under 1959 and credited to writers Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II).

  3. British rock albums in the mid-‘60s that were slightly altered when they hit American shores (example: The Beatles U.K. album With the Beatles was released in the U.S., with some alterations, as Meet the Beatles!. The first release is generally what is listed).
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What Constitutes an Album

In addition to the aforementioned re-definings of what makes an album an album, the DMDB also wanted to be as inclusive as possible in different formats of albums. Some best-of lists, for example, disregard compilations or live recordings and focus only on studio efforts. As such, the DMDB 1000 list contains standard studio albums alongside “specialty albums,” such as compilations, box sets, live recordings, soundtracks, cast albums, various artist collections, classical works, operas, and Christmas recordings.

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Why Chronological and Not Ranked

The more inclusive approaches described above diminished the merits of presenting this as a ranked list. Any list generates enough heat about what makes the cut and what doesn’t without a debate over why an album is ranked at #999 instead #998. However, a debate over whether Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is a more important work than Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is most likely to keep people firmly entrenched in their genre camps. By not focusing on where an album is on the list, the focus becomes, more appropriately, why it makes the list. Since all the albums link to individual DMDB pages, you can check out those justifications for yourself and see if you think the album is list worthy.

Another benefit of presenting this list chronologically is how it shows the emergence of new public tastes and the development of the album over the years. Combined with the no-genres-excluded approach, this makes for a fascinating observation of how entire musical genres dominated at different times. In a nutshell, one can see the following trends:

  • the dominance of classical works, which would later fit into an album-length format, from the pre-20th century era through the first quarter of the 20th century (Beethoven, Bach)
  • the rise of cast recordings of hugely successful Broadway productions in roughly the second quarter of the 20th century (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
  • the beginnings of “albums” recorded by single artists with the predominace of jazz recordings in the ‘40s and ‘50s (Miles Davis, John Coltrane)
  • the birth of rock & roll in the mid-‘50s (led by Elvis Presley) through to the early-‘60s British Invasion (led by The Beatles)
  • the explosion of the album as a true force in the ‘60s (The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones)
  • the development of the album rock format in the late-‘60s and early-‘70s (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd)
  • the rise of the superstar mega-selling albums of the late-‘70s and early-‘80s (Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, Prince, Bruce Springsteen)
  • the emergence of critically acclaimed indie and experimental albums in the ‘80s (U2, REM, Talking Heads)
  • the move toward albums that seemed to launch their own genres in the ‘90s (Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day)
  • the attempt to keep the album format alive in the 21st century with music that harkens back to earlier decades (The Strokes, The White Stripes)
Listing albums chronologically is not as easy as it sounds. Even for conventional studio recordings, release dates aren’t always available so sometimes an album’s first chart appearance was used. Classical works are listed by the date they were composed and/or first performed. Dates for cast recordings and soundtracks may include the date a show opened on stage, the date a cast recording was made, and/or the first chart appearance.

Compilations and live albums are listed by the date of recording instead of release. For example, The Beatles’ 1 is a greatest hits collection released in 2001, but it covers 1962-1970 so its date notation is (compilation: 1962-70, released 11/14/2000), meaning the album is listed under ‘1970.’

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Honorable Mentions

These are albums formerly in the DMDB 1000 which have since been bumped, but are still acknowledged with honorable mentions.

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