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2009;

1 Alela Diane - To Be Still
2 Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
3 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4 Archive - Controlling Crowds
5 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
6 Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
7 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
8 Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones
9 The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
10 Tosca - No Hassle

2008;

1 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
2 Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
3 Portishead - Third
4 Grace Jones - Hurricane
5 Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
6 Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
7 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
8 Barry Adamson - Back To The Cat
9 Lulu Rouge - Bless You
10 The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost

2007;

1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2 The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs
3 Radiohead - In Rainbows
4 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
5 Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
6 The Angels of Light - We Are Him
7 Adrian Orange & Her Band - Adrian Orange & Her Band
8 The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
9 Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
10 Tinariwen - Aman Iman; Water Is Life

2006;

1 Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
2 Tom Waits - Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
3 Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel
4 Ray LaMontagne - 'Till The Sun Turns Black
5 !!! - Myth Takes
6 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
7 Burial - Burial
8 Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
9 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
10 Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard De L'independance

2005;

1 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
2 Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
3 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
4 Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin' Up
5 Black Mountain - Black Mountain
6 Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
7 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
8 Gorillaz - Demon Days
9 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
10 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

2004;

1 Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
2 Los Lobos - The Ride
3 Zita Swoon - A Song About A Girls
4 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre Of Orpheus
5 Razorlight - Up All Night
6 Electrelane - The Power Out
7 J.J. Cale - To Tulsa and Back
8 Kings of Convenience - Riot On Empty Street
9 Jane Birkin - Rendez-Vous
10 Ozomatli - Street Signs

2003;

1 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
2 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
3 The White Stripes - Elephant
4 Hieroglyphics - Full Circle
5 Calexico - Feast of Wire
6 Nitin Sahwney - Human
7 Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
8 Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon
9 Vetiver - Vetiver
10 Kelis - Tasty

2002;

1 N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
2 Johnny Cash - American IV; The Man Comes Around
3 Moloko - Statues
4 Clinic - Walking With Thee
5 Missy Elliott - Under Construction
6 Wilco - Yankee FoxTrot
7 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
8 Spinvis - Spinvis
9 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
10 Orchestra Baobab - Specialist In All Styles

2001;

1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
2 Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion; Esperanza
3 Tinariwen - The Radio Tisdas Sessions
4 Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul
5 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
6 Rufus Wainwright - Poses
7 The Strokes - Is This It
8 Noir Désir - Des visages des figures
9 Gomez - Liquid Skin
10 Bilal - 1st Born Second

2000;

1 Johnny Cash - American III; Solitary Man
2 U2 - All you can't leave behind
3 Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott?
4 Antony and the Johnsons - Antony and the Johnsons
5 Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
6 Amon Tobin - Supermodified
7 Radiohead - Kid A
8 Jurrasic 5 - quality control
9 D'Angelo - Voodoo
10 Elevator Suite - Barefoot & Shitfaced

1999;

1 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
2 Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
3 Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
4 Johnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other Side
5 dEUS - The Ideal Crash
6 Le Tigre - Le Tigre
7 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
8 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
9 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
10 Zita Swoon - I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress

1998;

1 Manu Chao - Clandestino
2 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3 Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
4 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
5 Rae & Christian - Northern Sulphuric Soul
6 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
7 David Gray - White Ladder
8 Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
9 PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
10 Madonna - Ray of Light

1997;

1 Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
2 Portishead - Portishead
3 Howie B - Turn The Dark Off
4 Morphine - Like Swimming
5 Radiohead - OK Computer
6 Björk - Homogenic
7 The Verve - Urban Hymns
8 Jim White - Wrong-Eyed Jesus
9 U2 - Pop
10 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

1996;

1 16 Horsepower - Sackloth 'N Ashes
2 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
3 Los Lobos - Colossal Head
4 Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
5 Porno for Pyros - Good God's Urge
6 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
7 R.L. Burnside - A Ass Pocket of Whiskey
8 Patti Smith - Gone Again
9 Girls Against Boys - House of GVSB
10 LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression

1995;

1 Tricky - Maxinquay
2 Leftfield - Leftism
3 Tindersticks - Tindersticks II
4 Long Fin Killie - Houdini
5 Björk - Post
6 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
7 Kyuss - And the Circus Leaves Town
8 The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
9 Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
10 Thomas Mapfumo - Chimurenga Forever

1994;

1 Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
2 Portishead - Dummy
3 Massive Attack - Protection
4 The God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying
5 Bark Psychosis - Hex
6 The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
7 Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
8 dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
9 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
10 Soundgarden - Superunknown

1993;

1 Björk - Debut
2 Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume I
3 Swell - 41
4 Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
5 Tool - Undertow
6 Junkhouse - Strays
7 Nirvana - In Utero
8 Morphine - Good
9 Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
10 Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion

1992;

1 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
2 Blind Melon - Blind Melon
3 Gang Starr - Daily Operation
4 Red Devils - King King
5 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
6 Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
7 Alice in Chains - Dirt
8 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
9 Faith No More - Angel Dust
10 Tom Waits - Bone Machine

1991;

1 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2 Nirvana - Nevermind
3 U2 - Achtung Baby
4 Pearl Jam - Ten
5 Urban Dance Squad - Life'N Perspective Of A Genuine Crossover
6 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
7 N.W.A - Niggaz For Life
8 Metallica - Metallica
9 MC Solaar - Qui Seme Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo
10 Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

1990;

1 Happy Mondays - Pills'n Thrills And Bellyaches
2 Depeche Mode - Violator
3 George Michael - Listen without prejudice vol. I
4 Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
5 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
6 Deee-Lite - World Clique
7 Sonic Youth - Goo
8 Ride - Nowhere
9 The Shamen - En-Tact
10 Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement

1989;

1 Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
2 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3 De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
4 Faith No More - The Real Thing
5 Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
6 John Lee Hooker - The Healer
7 Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One
8 Pixies - Doolittle
9 The Cure - Disintegration
10 Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii

1988;

1 U2 - Rattle & Hum
2 The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
3 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
4 EPMD - Strictly Business
5 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
6 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
7 Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
8 Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
9 Burning Spear - Live in Paris
10 Les Négresses Vertes - Mlah

1987;

1 Prince - Sign O' The Times
2 U2 - The Joshua Tree
3 Salif Keita - Soro
4 Boogy Down Productions - Criminal Minded
5 The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
6 Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby
7 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
8 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Trio
9 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
10 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands

1986;

1 Paul Simon - Graceland
2 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
3 Metallica - Master of Puppets
4 Les Mysteres des Voix Bulgares - Les Mysteres Des Voix Bulgares
5 Prince & The Revolution - Parade
6 Alpha Blondy - Jerusalem
7 Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
8 Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
9 They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
10 Robert Cray Band - Strong Persuader

1985;

1 The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
2 Simply Red - Picture Book
3 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
4 Prince & The Revolution - Around the World in a Day
5 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
6 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
7 David Byrne - The Knee Plays
8 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
9 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
10 The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball

1984;

1 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
2 Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
3 Sade - Diamond Life
4 David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
5 Talk Talk - It's My Life
6 Nena - ? Fragezeichen
7 Everything but the Girl - Eden
8 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
9 Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive
10 Tina Turner - Private Dancer

1983;

1 Michael Jackson - Thriller
2 ESG - Come Away With ESG
3 Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
4 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
5 The The - Soul Mining
6 ZZ Top - Elimanator
7 David Bowie - Let's Dance
8 Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
9 R.E.M. - Murmur
10 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

1982;

1 King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
2 Virgin Prunes - If I Die... I Die
3 Orchestra Baobab - Pirate's Choice
4 The Cure - Pornography
5 Eek-A-Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem
6 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
7 Joe Jackson - Night & Day
8 Doe Maar - Doris Day & andere stukken
9 Simon & Garfunkel - Concert In Central Park
10 Fun Boy Three - The Fun Boy Three

1981;

1 Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
2 Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
3 UB40 - Signing Off
4 Japan - Tin Drum
5 The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
6 Black Uhuru - Red
7 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture And Morality
8 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau
9 Bobby Womack - The Poet
10 Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

1980;

1 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
3 Joy Division - Closer
4 Suicide - Suicide II
5 Queen - The Game
6 Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
7 John Lennon - Double Fantasy
8 Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
9 Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine
10 Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

1979;

1 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2 The Clash - London Calling
3 Pink Floyd - The Wall
4 Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
5 The B 52's - The B 52's
6 The Specials - The Specials
7 Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
8 Wire - 154
9 Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
10 XTC - Drums and Wires

1978;

1 Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street band - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
2 Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
3 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
4 Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
5 Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
6 Willie Colón - Siembra
7 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon by Bus
8 The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
9 Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
10 Dire Straits - Dire Straits

1977;

1 The Congos - The Heart of the Congos
2 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
3 Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
4 Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
5 Horace Andy - In the Light
6 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
7 Fela Anikulapo Kuti - No Agreement
8 David Bowie - Heroes
9 Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
10 Muddy Waters - Hard Again

1976;

1 Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape
2 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
3 Parliament - Mothership Connection
4 Tom Waits - Small Change
5 Fela Kuti and Afrika '70 - Zombie
6 Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
7 Peter Tosh - Legalize It
8 The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
9 Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
10 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration

1975;

1 Patti Smith - Horses
2 Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit
3 Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
4 Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
5 Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
6 Terry Callier - I Just Can't Help Myself
7 Hugh Masekela - The boys doin' it
8 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
9 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
10 Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby

1974;

1 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
2 J.J. Cale - Okie
3 Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
4 Cymande - Second Time Round
5 Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
6 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread
7 Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
8 Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Winter In America
9 Neil Young - On the Beach
10 Sparks - Kimono My House

1973;

1 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire
2 John Martyn - Solid Air
3 ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
4 Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
5 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
6 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
7 Can - Future Days
8 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
9 Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
10 Roxy Music - Stranded

1972;

1 Neil Young - Harvest
2 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
3 Frankie Miller - Once in a Blue Moon
4 Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
5 Al Green - Let's Stay Together
6 Parliament - First Thangs
7 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Clear Spot
8 The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St
9 Lou Reed - Transformer
10 The Temptations - All Directions

1971;

1 Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' on
2 Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
3 J.J. Cale - Naturally
4 T. Rex - Electric Warrior
5 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
7 John Lennon - Imagine
8 Dr. John - The Sun, Moon and Herbs
9 David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
10 Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson

1970;

1 The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
2 Santana - Abraxas
3 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
4 Allen Toussaint - From a Whisper to a Scream
5 John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
6 Janis Joplin - Pearl
7 Neil Young - After The Goldrush
8 Grateful Dead - American Beauty
9 The Doors - Morrison Hotel
10 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

1969;

1 Funkadelic - Funkadelic
2 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
3 The Stooges - The Stooges
4 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
5 The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
7 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
9 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
10 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country

1968;

1 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2 The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
4 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
5 Nico - Chelsea Girl
6 The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
7 Dr. John - Gris-Gris
8 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
9 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
10 Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B.

1967;

1 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2 The Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4 Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
5 The Doors - The Doors
6 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
8 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9 The Doors - Strange Days
10 Love - Forever Changes

1966;

1 The Beatles - Revolver
2 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
3 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4 Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
5 The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
6 The Kinks - Face to Face
7 Them - Them Again
8 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1
9 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
10 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Midnight Ride

1965;

1 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
2 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3 The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
4 The Zombies - The Zombies (Featuring She's Not There and Tell Her No)
5 The Who - My Generation
6 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
7 Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
8 The Beatles - Help!
9 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
10 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

1964;

1 Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
4 Solomon Burke - Rock 'N' Soul
5 Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
7 The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
8 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
9 Jacques Brel - Olympia 64
10 Horace Silver - Song For My Father

1963;

1 Sam Cooke - Night Beat
2 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
3 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
4 Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
5 Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club
6 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
7 Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
8 The Beatles - With the Beatles
9 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
10 Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond

1962;

1 James Brown - Live At The Apollo
2 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (The Rockin' Chair Album)
3 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
4 Odetta - Odetta and the blues
5 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
6 Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song
7 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
8 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
9 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
10 Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice

1961;

1 Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit
2 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee's Greatest
3 Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Newport
4 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
5 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
6 Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
7 Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
8 Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
9 Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!
10 Bobby Vee - Bobby Vee

1960;

1 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
2 Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
3 Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
4 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
5 Link Wray - Link Wray & the Wraymen
6 John Lee Hooker - The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker
7 Etta James - At Last!
8 Oscar Brown Jr - Sin & Soul
9 James Brown - Please Please Please
10 Joan Baez - Joan Baez

1959;

1 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
3 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
4 Sonny Boy Williamson - Down and Out Blues
5 Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley
6 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out!
7 Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns - Having A Good Time
8 Elvis Presley - For LP Fans Only
9 The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
10 Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul

1958;

1 Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
2 Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
3 Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
4 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins
5 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
6 The Kingston Trio - The Kingston Trio
7 John Coltrane - Blue Trane
8 Tito Puente - Dance Mania
9 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
10 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon

1957;

1 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
2 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis
3 Louis Prima - The Wildest!
4 Machito - Kenya
5 The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets
6 Dale Hawkins - Oh! Suzy Q
7 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
8 Sabu - Palo Congo
9 Ray Charles - Ray Charles
10 Carl Perkins - Dance Album

1956;

1 Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
2 Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
3 Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
4 Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
5 Harry Belafonte - Calypso
6 Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas
7 Bill Haley - Shake Rattle and Roll
8 Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop!
9 Fats Domino - This Is Fats
10 Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers!