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With album sales running at around 10m a year and the record industry's attention sharply focused on singles, only 92 albums made the album chart in the 178 chart weeks which elapsed between the list's inception in 1956 and the end of the Fifties.
Soundtrack albums were easily the dominant force, and at least one of the 15 which appeared in the chart in the decade was present in every chart. These aside, the market was divided between MOR, comedy and rock'n'roll.
MOR was most visible, with artists such as Johnny Mathis, Pat Boone, Perry ...