Top-ranked artists from United States

The top-ranked artists from United States 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	Bob Dylan	78	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)	133,800
2	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	78,567
3	Kendrick Lamar	9	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)	76,849
4	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (14th)	76,146
5	Miles Davis	120	Kind Of Blue (37th)	67,968
6	The Beach Boys	72	Pet Sounds (11th)	64,421
7	Kanye West	14	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)	63,784
8	Pixies	26	Doolittle (18th)	61,867
9	R.E.M.	35	Automatic For The People (49th)	59,656
10	Jimi Hendrix	67	Are You Experienced (39th)	59,021
11	Bruce Springsteen	148	Born To Run (70th)	57,909
12	Talking Heads	15	Remain In Light (27th)	57,567
13	Sufjan Stevens	27	Illinois (42nd)	55,187
14	The Doors	45	The Doors (30th)	53,783
15	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	48,629
16	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (16th)	41,841
17	The Smashing Pumpkins	26	Siamese Dream (54th)	41,681
18	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (103rd)	40,956
19	Prince	63	Purple Rain (81st)	39,325
20	John Coltrane	81	A Love Supreme (75th)	38,082

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