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)
	21	Guns N' Roses	9	Appetite For Destruction (45th)	27,790
	22	Tom Waits	25	Rain Dogs (104th)	26,755
	23	Michael Jackson	12	Thriller (63rd)	26,156
	24	Modest Mouse	11	The Moon & Antarctica (106th)	25,997
	25	Weezer	9	Weezer (The Blue Album) (89th)	24,896
	26	Jeff Buckley	7	Grace (40th)	24,786
	27	Wilco	9	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (59th)	24,529
	28	Prince	34	Purple Rain (114th)	22,930
	29	The National	8	Boxer (126th)	22,738
	30	Green Day	14	American Idiot (111th)	22,731
	31	Iggy Pop	22	Fun House (155th)	22,156
	32	Kanye West	5	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (108th)	21,881
	33	Stevie Wonder	21	Songs in the Key of Life (132nd)	21,694
	34	Beck	14	Odelay (142nd)	21,286
	35	Animal Collective	15	Merriweather Post Pavilion (98th)	21,222
	36	Tool	6	Aenima (140th)	21,027
	37	Pavement	9	Slanted & Enchanted (124th)	20,439
	38	Marvin Gaye	14	What's Going On (58th)	20,346
	39	Fleet Foxes	4	Fleet Foxes (90th)	19,845
	40	Simon and Garfunkel	14	Bridge Over Troubled Water (115th)	18,803