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)
1	The Beatles	68	Abbey Road (3rd)	301,039
2	Radiohead	22	OK Computer (1st)	258,644
3	Pink Floyd	37	The Dark Side Of The Moon (2nd)	215,307
4	David Bowie	92	The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (9th)	157,168
5	Bob Dylan	78	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)	133,533
6	Led Zeppelin	23	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (12th)	125,865
7	The Rolling Stones	99	Exile On Main St. (44th)	94,599
8	Arcade Fire	7	Funeral (15th)	83,485
9	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	78,455
10	Kendrick Lamar	9	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)	76,656
11	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (14th)	76,374
12	Neil Young	91	After The Gold Rush (82nd)	71,756
13	The Smiths	15	The Queen Is Dead (17th)	71,113
14	Miles Davis	120	Kind Of Blue (38th)	67,889
15	The Beach Boys	72	Pet Sounds (11th)	64,415
16	Kanye West	14	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)	63,717
17	Pixies	26	Doolittle (18th)	61,732
18	R.E.M.	35	Automatic For The People (49th)	59,754
19	Jimi Hendrix	67	Are You Experienced (39th)	59,009
20	Bruce Springsteen	148	Born To Run (70th)	57,879

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