100 Best-Selling Albums of the 50s

Although the 1950s marks the birth of rock’n’roll and Elvis’s Christmas Album was the best-selling of the decade, there were other, very different best-sellers between 1950 and 1959, such as jazz classic Miles Davies’s Kind of Blue, Broadway musicals such as Olkahoma!, Mantovani’s easy listening arrangements of show tunes and Frank Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours.

In 100 Best-selling Albums of the 50s, each album entry is accompanied by the original sleeve artwork – front and back – and is packed full of facts and recording information, including a complete track listing, musician and production credits, and an authoritative commentary on the record and its place in cultural history. The data is collated from figures provided by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

With vinyl sales at their highest in 25 years, 100 Best-selling Albums of the 50s is an expert celebration of popular music from My Fair Lady to Doris Day, from Harry Belafonte to Nat ‘King’ Cole.