Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists 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	The Beatles	67	Abbey Road (3rd)	326,099
2	Radiohead	22	OK Computer (1st)	284,043
3	Pink Floyd	37	The Dark Side Of The Moon (2nd)	235,280
4	David Bowie	91	The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (9th)	166,816
5	Bob Dylan	77	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)	141,870
6	Led Zeppelin	23	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (12th)	136,480
7	The Rolling Stones	97	Exile On Main St. (43rd)	99,290
8	Arcade Fire	7	Funeral (14th)	90,916
9	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	84,787
10	Kendrick Lamar	9	To Pimp A Butterfly (20th)	81,508
11	Nirvana (US)	17	Nevermind (15th)	80,777
12	The Smiths	15	The Queen Is Dead (17th)	75,045
13	Neil Young	86	After The Gold Rush (84th)	74,215
14	Miles Davis	118	Kind Of Blue (38th)	71,391
15	The Beach Boys	70	Pet Sounds (11th)	68,598
16	Kanye West	14	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (32nd)	68,225
17	Pixies	26	Doolittle (18th)	66,600
18	Jimi Hendrix	66	Are You Experienced (39th)	62,420
19	R.E.M.	35	Automatic For The People (51st)	61,087
20	Bruce Springsteen	142	Born To Run (72nd)	60,816

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