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)	118,623
	2	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (13th)	67,400
	3	The Velvet Underground	19	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	66,019
	4	Kendrick Lamar	10	To Pimp A Butterfly (20th)	65,233
	5	Miles Davis	126	Kind Of Blue (36th)	62,573
	6	R.E.M.	36	Automatic For The People (44th)	57,101
	7	The Beach Boys	76	Pet Sounds (12th)	55,296
	8	Kanye West	15	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (34th)	55,028
	9	Bruce Springsteen	161	Born To Run (79th)	52,820
	10	Pixies	28	Doolittle (17th)	52,488
	11	Jimi Hendrix	70	Are You Experienced (38th)	51,578
	12	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (25th)	51,347
	13	The Doors	48	The Doors (27th)	49,044
	14	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	48,838
	15	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	43,200
	16	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (92nd)	39,559
	17	Prince	66	Purple Rain (71st)	37,986
	18	The Smashing Pumpkins	31	Siamese Dream (55th)	37,688
	19	The National	18	High Violet (119th)	35,185
	20	John Coltrane	90	A Love Supreme (77th)	34,787