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).

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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)
United States101Pavement16Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (174th)21,880
United States102Nas21Illmatic (65th)21,746
United States103Interpol10Turn On The Bright Lights (88th)21,624
United Kingdom104Paul McCartney46Band On The Run (266th)21,575
United States105Lou Reed37Transformer (136th)21,361
United States106Beck19Odelay (257th)21,315
United Kingdom107Elvis Costello37This Year's Model (312th)20,951
United States108Creedence Clearwater Revival23Cosmo's Factory (180th)20,463
United States109Jeff Buckley14Grace (58th)20,282
United States110A Tribe Called Quest13The Low End Theory (138th)20,230
Jamaica111Bob Marley45Exodus (273rd)19,692
112Nine Inch Nails23The Downward Spiral (160th)19,409
United States113Joanna Newsom7Ys (173rd)19,390
United Kingdom114Peter Gabriel28So (229th)19,389
United Kingdom115Slowdive9Souvlaki (116th)19,153
United States116Love18Forever Changes (72nd)19,139
United Kingdom117Jethro Tull43Thick As A Brick (287th)19,036
United States118Paul Simon28Graceland (124th)18,895
United Kingdom119Massive Attack10Mezzanine (152nd)18,800
United Kingdom120Cocteau Twins17Heaven Or Las Vegas (162nd)18,798
Total artists: 1,000. Page 6 of 50
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