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Almost a third of the decade had gone before The Beatles made their album chart debut in 1963 with Please Please Me, but the Fab Four went on to dominate album sales like no act before or since, spending 133 weeks at number one, and supplying eight of the decade's 10 biggest sellers, their supremacy being interrupted only by soundtrack albums The Sound Of Music and West Side Story. Though these, performed well, the album chart became increasingly reflective of the singles chart, with pop and rock acts dominating.
Folk was in vogue too, with The Seekers, Simon & Garfunkel and, most of ...