Top-ranked artists
The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 59,000 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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Albums Help
The number of albums by this artist featuring on this site.
Top Ranked Album Help
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)
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Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
101 Pavement 17 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (177th)19,837 102 Elvis Costello 37 This Year's Model (322nd)19,745 103 Creedence Clearwater Revival 24 Cosmo's Factory (180th)19,689 104 Belle And Sebastian 21 If You're Feeling Sinister (136th)19,335 105 Interpol 9 Turn On The Bright Lights (89th)19,243 106 Swans 39 To Be Kind (269th)19,178 107 Nas 22 Illmatic (67th)19,160 108 Lou Reed 37 Transformer (144th)19,072 109 Jeff Buckley 16 Grace (54th)19,056 110 Peter Gabriel 30 So (212th)19,030 111 A Tribe Called Quest 13 The Low End Theory (134th)18,895 112 Nine Inch Nails 25 The Downward Spiral (155th)18,853 113 Bob Marley 45 Exodus (260th)18,562 114 Cocteau Twins 16 Heaven Or Las Vegas (141st)18,215 115 Massive Attack 9 Mezzanine (137th)18,064 116 Brian Eno 52 Another Green World (199th)17,913 117 Joanna Newsom 7 Ys (176th)17,728 118 Slowdive 9 Souvlaki (121st)17,678 119 Deep Purple 71 Machine Head (249th)17,589 120 Paul Simon 29 Graceland (120th)17,531