Top-ranked bands

The top bands 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)
	41	Fleetwood Mac	28	Rumours (38th)	30,039
	42	Sonic Youth	24	Daydream Nation (48th)	29,790
	43	Black Sabbath	25	Paranoid (85th)	28,277
	44	Guns N' Roses	9	Appetite For Destruction (45th)	27,695
	45	Arctic Monkeys	5	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (52nd)	27,650
	46	Sigur Rós	10	Ágætis Byrjun (80th)	27,382
	47	Tom Waits	25	Rain Dogs (103rd)	26,450
	48	AC/DC	22	Back In Black (72nd)	26,284
	49	Modest Mouse	11	The Moon & Antarctica (104th)	26,223
	50	Michael Jackson	12	Thriller (63rd)	26,044
	51	Jeff Buckley	7	Grace (40th)	24,773
	52	Weezer	9	Weezer (The Blue Album) (92nd)	24,463
	53	Genesis	24	Selling England By The Pound (166th)	24,375
	54	Wilco	9	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (61st)	24,181
	55	Nick Drake	7	Pink Moon (76th)	24,064
	56	Rush	27	Moving Pictures (151st)	23,345
	57	King Crimson	23	In The Court Of The Crimson King (73rd)	23,125
	58	Prince	34	Purple Rain (115th)	22,749
	59	Green Day	14	American Idiot (111th)	22,526
	60	The National	8	Boxer (125th)	22,207