Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 58,000 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 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)
21	Jimi Hendrix	70	Are You Experienced (38th)	52,297
22	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (26th)	52,079
23	U2	38	The Joshua Tree (51st)	50,952
24	The Doors	48	The Doors (28th)	49,559
25	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	49,343
26	King Crimson	99	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (24th)	48,754
28	The Who	51	Who's Next (40th)	46,639
29	The Strokes	8	Is This It (25th)	42,392
30	The Clash	19	London Calling (21st)	42,155
31	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (50th)	41,002
32	Fleetwood Mac	44	Rumours (19th)	40,286
33	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (93rd)	40,157
34	Björk	30	Homogenic (90th)	40,072
35	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	38,797
37	The Smashing Pumpkins	30	Siamese Dream (55th)	38,079
38	Prince	66	Purple Rain (72nd)	37,956
39	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (39th)	37,761
40	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (71st)	36,327
41	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (23rd)	35,655
42	John Coltrane	90	A Love Supreme (75th)	35,470

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