Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 57,000 greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com are listed below:

N.B. Artist from before the mid-1960s may not be as well represented in this chart, because this chart only takes into account their albums. (Before that time, singles were far more prevalent than albums).

Rank	Artist	Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring in the greatest album charts.	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart.	Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
1	The Beatles	70	Abbey Road (3rd)	271,412
2	Radiohead	25	OK Computer (1st)	226,255
3	Pink Floyd	35	The Dark Side Of The Moon (2nd)	192,386
4	David Bowie	93	The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (7th)	144,980
5	Bob Dylan	79	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)	124,378
6	Led Zeppelin	23	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (12th)	116,090
7	The Rolling Stones	102	Exile On Main St. (45th)	88,127
8	Arcade Fire	8	Funeral (15th)	73,249
9	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (13th)	71,493
10	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	70,755
11	Neil Young	94	After The Gold Rush (83rd)	70,138
12	Kendrick Lamar	10	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)	69,749
13	Miles Davis	125	Kind Of Blue (37th)	65,361
14	The Smiths	15	The Queen Is Dead (16th)	64,486
15	The Beach Boys	76	Pet Sounds (11th)	59,399
16	R.E.M.	36	Automatic For The People (48th)	58,448
17	Kanye West	15	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (34th)	58,165
18	Pixies	28	Doolittle (18th)	55,112
19	Bruce Springsteen	154	Born To Run (76th)	54,534
20	Jimi Hendrix	70	Are You Experienced (39th)	54,493

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