Top-ranked bands from United States

The top bands from United States that appear most prominently in over 9,600 greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com are listed below:

N.B. Artists 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 important than albums).

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	Rank	Band	Albums   The number of albums by this band featuring in the greatest album charts.	Top Ranked Album   The top ranked album by this band and where it ranks in the overall chart.	Score   Total rank score for this band (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
	1	Bob Dylan	52	Highway 61 Revisited (17th)	145,557
	2	Nirvana	14	Nevermind (6th)	99,071
	3	The Velvet Underground	12	The Velvet Underground And Nico (12th)	76,237
	4	The Beach Boys	46	Pet Sounds (13th)	62,320
	5	Pixies	10	Doolittle (21st)	60,661
	6	Jimi Hendrix	29	Are You Experienced (29th)	57,887
	7	Bruce Springsteen	25	Born To Run (36th)	56,947
	8	The Doors	18	The Doors (28th)	49,015
	9	R.E.M.	25	Automatic For The People (44th)	48,377
	10	Pearl Jam	23	Ten (34th)	43,538
	11	Neutral Milk Hotel	4	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (18th)	41,784
	12	The Strokes	5	Is This It (27th)	41,150
	13	Metallica	15	Master Of Puppets (74th)	40,061
	14	The Smashing Pumpkins	14	Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (62nd)	38,356
	15	Miles Davis	68	Kind Of Blue (43rd)	37,290
	16	The White Stripes	7	Elephant (49th)	35,170
	17	Red Hot Chili Peppers	13	Blood Sugar Sex Magik (87th)	34,219
	18	The Flaming Lips	17	The Soft Bulletin (79th)	31,752
	19	Talking Heads	14	Remain in Light (70th)	30,566
	20	Sonic Youth	24	Daydream Nation (48th)	29,799