Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists 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)
21	Talking Heads	15	Remain In Light (27th)	57,607
22	Sufjan Stevens	27	Illinois (42nd)	55,149
23	U2	35	The Joshua Tree (52nd)	54,578
24	The Cure	37	Disintegration (32nd)	53,924
25	The Doors	45	The Doors (30th)	53,912
26	King Crimson	88	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	53,840
27	The Who	48	Who's Next (40th)	53,063
28	The Clash	19	London Calling (20th)	48,868
29	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	48,598
30	Fleetwood Mac	41	Rumours (21st)	44,559
31	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (38th)	43,904
32	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (127th)	43,180
33	Black Sabbath	45	Paranoid (56th)	42,352
34	Björk	25	Homogenic (93rd)	42,138
35	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (22nd)	42,099
36	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (16th)	41,993
37	The Smashing Pumpkins	26	Siamese Dream (54th)	41,794
38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (66th)	41,379
39	Metallica	29	Master Of Puppets (105th)	40,946
40	Prince	63	Purple Rain (81st)	39,384

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