Top-ranked artists of the 1980s

The top-ranked artists of the 1980s that appear most prominently in over 53,000 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 Smiths	15	The Queen Is Dead (17th)	71,036
2	Prince	63	Purple Rain (81st)	54,904
3	Pixies	26	Doolittle (18th)	54,101
4	The Cure	37	Disintegration (32nd)	48,525
5	Talking Heads	15	Remain In Light (27th)	43,518
6	U2	35	The Joshua Tree (52nd)	34,558
7	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (105th)	30,946
8	Kate Bush	17	Hounds Of Love (57th)	29,363
9	R.E.M.	35	Murmur (141st)	28,166
10	The Stone Roses	9	The Stone Roses (34th)	25,911
11	Sonic Youth	40	Daydream Nation (69th)	25,059
12	Michael Jackson	24	Thriller (77th)	21,494
13	Bruce Springsteen	148	Born In The U.S.A. (199th)	20,700
14	Tom Waits	26	Rain Dogs (108th)	19,987
15	Iron Maiden	36	The Number Of The Beast (269th)	19,979
16	Prince And The Revolution (See also Prince)	4	Purple Rain (81st)	19,359
17	Joy Division	12	Closer (80th)	18,440
18	New Order	30	Power, Corruption & Lies (250th)	17,412
19	Talk Talk	13	Spirit Of Eden (134th)	16,927
20	Rush	37	Moving Pictures (153rd)	16,594

« prev
1
2
3
4
...
49
50
next »
Goto Page:

Total artists: 1,000. Page 1 of 50

If you enjoy our site, please consider supporting us by sparing a few seconds to disable your ad blocker.

A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(

We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.