Top-ranked artists from United States

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 on this site.	Top Ranked Album The top-ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart (N.B. some artists might not have a top-ranked album, if their albums are ranked outside the top 100,000)	Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
	1	Bob Dylan	81	Highway 61 Revisited (29th)	117,190
	2	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (13th)	66,464
	3	The Velvet Underground	19	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	65,158
	4	Kendrick Lamar	10	To Pimp A Butterfly (21st)	64,472
	5	Miles Davis	127	Kind Of Blue (36th)	62,155
	6	R.E.M.	36	Automatic For The People (45th)	56,630
	7	The Beach Boys	77	Pet Sounds (11th)	54,886
	8	Kanye West	15	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (35th)	54,180
	9	Bruce Springsteen	161	Born To Run (81st)	52,257
	10	Pixies	28	Doolittle (17th)	51,792
	11	Talking Heads	19	Remain In Light (25th)	50,758
	12	Jimi Hendrix	71	Are You Experienced (38th)	50,728
	13	Sufjan Stevens	35	Illinois (43rd)	48,500
	14	The Doors	49	The Doors (28th)	48,463
	15	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	42,699
	16	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (95th)	39,420
	17	Prince	67	Purple Rain (71st)	37,759
	18	The Smashing Pumpkins	31	Siamese Dream (55th)	37,350
	19	The National	18	High Violet (120th)	34,902
	20	John Coltrane	90	A Love Supreme (76th)	34,483