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Albums in the Year 1953

This page lists the top albums of 1953 in the source charts. The way that the various charts are combined to reach this final list is described in the home page. Before 1960 quality chart information for albums is sparse, the result should therefore be assumed to be subjective and liable to be biased. A list of biggest hit songs of 1953 can be found here.

#	Artist	Album Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Peggy Lee	Black Coffee	1953	RYM 2 of 1953, UK 20 - Oct 1961
2	Thelonious Monk	Thelonious Monk Trio	1953	RYM 1 of 1953
3	Tom Lehrer	Songs By Tom Lehrer	1953	UK 7 - Nov 1958, RYM 7 of 1953
4	Duke Ellington	Ellington Uptown	1953	RYM 4 of 1953, Acclaimed 2442
5	June Christy	Something Cool	1953	RYM 9 of 1953, Acclaimed 1606
6	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol 2	1953	RYM 10 of 1954, Acclaimed 2905
7	Gerry Mulligan	Gerry Mulligan Quartet	1953	RYM 69 of 1953, Acclaimed 2718
8	Shelly Manne	The West Coast Sound	1953	RYM 86 of 1955, Acclaimed 2536
9	Giacomo Puccini	Tosca	1953	RYM 3 of 1953
10	Richard Wagner	Tristan Und Isolde	1953	RYM 5 of 1953
11	J J Johnson	With Clifford Brown	1953	RYM 6 of 1953
12	Georges Brassens	Vol 1 - Georges Brassens chante les chansons poetiques	1953	RYM 8 of 1953
13	Yma Sumac	Inca Taqui	1953	RYM 10 of 1953
14	Lee Konitz	Konitz Meets Mulligan	1953	RYM 11 of 1953
15	Bud Powell	Jazz at Massey Hall, Vol 2	1953	RYM 12 of 1953
16	Richard Strauss	Four Last Songs; Orchestral Songs; Also sprach Zarathustra	1953	RYM 13 of 1953
17	Nat King Cole	Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love	1953	RYM 14 of 1953
18	Various Artists	Kismet	1953	RYM 15 of 1953
19	Nat King Cole	Ballads of the Day	1953	RYM 16 of 1953
20	Dmitri Shostakovich	Symphony No 10	1953	RYM 17 of 1953
21	Moondog	Moondog & His Friends	1953	RYM 18 of 1953
22	Ludwig van Beethoven	Violin Concerto (Menuhin, Furtwangler)	1953	RYM 19 of 1953
23	Hank Williams	Honky-Tonkin'	1953	RYM 20 of 1953
24	Eartha Kitt	RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt	1953	RYM 21 of 1953
25	Olivier Messiaen	Catalogue d'Oiseaux	1953	RYM 22 of 1953
26	Oscar Peterson	Plays Duke Ellington	1953	RYM 23 of 1953
27	Miklos Rozsa	Julius Caesar	1953	RYM 24 of 1953
28	Dave Brubeck	Jazz at Oberlin	1953	RYM 25 of 1953
29	Karlheinz Stockhausen	Kontra-Punkte	1953	RYM 26 of 1953
30	Ogden Nash	Reads Ogden Nash	1953	RYM 27 of 1953
31	Kenny Drew	New Faces - New Sounds	1953	RYM 28 of 1953
32	Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam	Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam	1953	RYM 29 of 1953
33	Marilyn Monroe	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1953	RYM 30 of 1953
34	Charles Aznavour	Charles Aznavour chante... (Jezebel)	1953	RYM 31 of 1953
35	Jackie Gleason	Music for Lovers Only	1953	RYM 32 of 1953
36	Various Artists	The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever	1953	RYM 33 of 1953
37	Anna Russell	Anna Russell Sings! Again?	1953	RYM 34 of 1953
38	Hank Williams	Memorial Album	1953	RYM 35 of 1953
39	Edith Piaf	Le bel indifferent	1953	RYM 36 of 1953
40	Hank Jones	Urbanity	1953	RYM 37 of 1953
41	Paul Bley	Introducing Paul Bley	1953	RYM 38 of 1953
42	Wynton Kelly	New Faces - New Sounds	1953	RYM 39 of 1953
43	Barney Kessel	Easy Like, Vol 1	1953	RYM 40 of 1953
44	Horace Silver	New Faces - New Sounds	1953	RYM 41 of 1953
45	Yves Montand	Recital au Theatre de l'Etoile	1953	RYM 42 of 1953
46	Laurindo Almeida & Bud Shank	Brazilliance, Vol 1	1953	RYM 44 of 1953
47	Ted Heath Orchestra	Strike Up the Band / Fats Waller Album	1953	RYM 45 of 1953
48	George Lewis	Jazz Funeral In New Orleans	1953	RYM 46 of 1953
49	Luis Mariano	La Belle de Cadix	1953	RYM 48 of 1953
50	Buddy DeFranco	Mr Clarinet	1953	RYM 49 of 1953
51	George Wallington	George Wallington Trio Vol 2	1953	RYM 50 of 1953
52	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	Smokey Mountain Ballads	1953	RYM 51 of 1953
53	Dalva de Oliveira	A voz sentimental do Brasil	1953	RYM 52 of 1953
54	Charlie Parker	One Night in Washington - Charlie Parker with the Orchestra	1953	RYM 54 of 1953
55	Igor Stravinsky	Three Songs From William Shakespeare	1953	RYM 55 of 1953
56	Ruth Wallis	Saucy Hit Parade	1953	RYM 56 of 1953
57	Engelbert Humperdinck	Hansel und Gretel (Herbert von Karajan)	1953	RYM 57 of 1953
58	Oscar Pettiford	The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet	1953	RYM 59 of 1953
59	Kenny Dorham	Kenny Dorham Quintet	1953	RYM 60 of 1953
60	Jackie & Roy	Empathy	1953	RYM 61 of 1953
61	Gerry Mulligan	Gerry Mulligan Quartet (PJLP-2)	1953	RYM 62 of 1953
62	Dizzy Gillespie	The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever	1953	RYM 63 of 1953
63	Count Basie	Li'l Ol' Groovemaker....BASIE!	1953	RYM 64 of 1953
64	Larry Elgart	Impressions of Outer Space	1953	RYM 65 of 1953
65	Louis Armstrong	Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines	1953	RYM 66 of 1953
66	Alfred Newman	The Robe	1953	RYM 67 of 1953
67	Les Paul & Mary Ford	The Hit Makers!	1953	RYM 68 of 1953
68	Doris Day	Calamity Jane	1953	RYM 70 of 1953
69	Moondog	Improvisations at a Jazz Concert	1953	RYM 71 of 1953
70	Gustav Mahler	Symphony No. 7, B Minor (Hermann Scherchen, Vienna SOO / MCA)	1953	RYM 72 of 1953
71	Jackie Gleason	Music to Make You Misty	1953	RYM 74 of 1953
72	Leo Diamond	Off Shore	1953	RYM 75 of 1953
73	Percy Faith	Kismet	1953	RYM 76 of 1953
74	Modern Jazz Quartet	Modern Jazz Quartet Vol 2	1953	RYM 77 of 1953
75	Elmo Hope	New Faces - New Sounds	1953	RYM 78 of 1953
76	The Quintet	The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever	1953	Acclaimed 514
77	Lester Young	The President Plays With the Oscar Peterson Trio	1953	Acclaimed 1820
78	J J Johnson	The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson	1953	Acclaimed 2084
79	Fred Astaire	The Astaire Story	1953	Acclaimed 2208