Top-ranked artists from United States

The top-ranked artists from United States that appear most prominently in over 50,000 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	77	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)	141,876
2	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	84,767
3	Kendrick Lamar	9	To Pimp A Butterfly (20th)	81,482
4	Nirvana (US)	17	Nevermind (15th)	80,747
5	Miles Davis	118	Kind Of Blue (38th)	71,370
6	The Beach Boys	70	Pet Sounds (11th)	68,607
7	Kanye West	14	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (32nd)	68,204
8	Pixies	26	Doolittle (18th)	66,595
9	Jimi Hendrix	66	Are You Experienced (39th)	62,423
10	R.E.M.	35	Automatic For The People (51st)	61,095
11	Bruce Springsteen	142	Born To Run (72nd)	60,830
12	Talking Heads	15	Remain In Light (29th)	59,368
13	The Doors	45	The Doors (30th)	56,642
14	Sufjan Stevens	25	Illinois (45th)	56,175
15	The Strokes	7	Is This It (23rd)	51,734
16	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (16th)	46,653
17	The Smashing Pumpkins	26	Siamese Dream (54th)	43,966
18	Metallica	29	Master Of Puppets (105th)	42,172
19	Prince	63	Purple Rain (81st)	40,345
20	John Coltrane	78	A Love Supreme (74th)	39,568

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