Top-ranked artists from United States

The top-ranked artists from United States that appear most prominently in over 56,000 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	Bob Dylan	78	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)	127,799
2	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	73,164
3	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (13th)	72,972
4	Kendrick Lamar	10	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)	72,318
5	Miles Davis	121	Kind Of Blue (36th)	66,677
6	The Beach Boys	74	Pet Sounds (12th)	61,006
7	Kanye West	15	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)	60,397
8	R.E.M.	35	Automatic For The People (49th)	58,844
9	Pixies	27	Doolittle (18th)	57,337
10	Jimi Hendrix	70	Are You Experienced (39th)	56,349
11	Bruce Springsteen	150	Born To Run (75th)	55,595
12	Talking Heads	17	Remain In Light (26th)	55,180
13	Sufjan Stevens	29	Illinois (43rd)	52,144
14	The Doors	46	The Doors (29th)	51,808
15	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	45,387
16	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (100th)	41,116
17	The Smashing Pumpkins	27	Siamese Dream (55th)	39,956
18	Prince	66	Purple Rain (72nd)	39,550
19	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (17th)	37,647
20	John Coltrane	84	A Love Supreme (73rd)	37,098

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