The greatest albums of the 1940s

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No. 1

Songs by Sinatra

Frank Sinatra · Columbia · 1947

16.560

Why this number?

Ranking Reach × Acclaim By decade

The full board

2 Struggle Woody Guthrie · Folkways Records · 1945 12.600

3 Blue Skies Bing Crosby · Decca Records · 1946 5.440

4 Peter and the Wolf Prokofiev · Columbia Masterworks · 1941 4.020