Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 51,000 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 (28th)	58,160
22	U2	35	The Joshua Tree (52nd)	55,623
23	Sufjan Stevens	26	Illinois (42nd)	55,597
24	King Crimson	88	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	55,288
25	The Cure	37	Disintegration (31st)	55,136
26	The Doors	45	The Doors (30th)	54,946
27	The Who	47	Who's Next (40th)	54,598
28	The Clash	18	London Calling (20th)	50,816
29	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	49,825
30	Fleetwood Mac	41	Rumours (23rd)	45,115
31	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (38th)	45,097
32	Genesis (UK)	34	Selling England By The Pound (129th)	44,127
33	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (21st)	43,619
34	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (16th)	43,484
35	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (63rd)	42,813
36	The Smashing Pumpkins	26	Siamese Dream (55th)	42,636
37	Black Sabbath	45	Paranoid (58th)	42,300
38	Björk	25	Homogenic (94th)	42,237
39	Metallica	29	Master Of Puppets (107th)	41,386
40	Prince	63	Purple Rain (81st)	39,593

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