Top-ranked artists

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 (39th)	52,231
	22	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (25th)	52,088
	23	U2	38	The Joshua Tree (51st)	50,894
	24	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	49,779
	25	The Doors	48	The Doors (27th)	49,401
	26	King Crimson	99	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (26th)	48,287
	27	The Who	51	Who's Next (40th)	46,484
	28	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	43,501
	29	The Clash	19	London Calling (21st)	42,004
	30	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (50th)	41,239
	31	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (92nd)	40,182
	32	Fleetwood Mac	44	Rumours (19th)	40,135
	33	Björk	30	Homogenic (90th)	39,854
	34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	38,689
	35	Prince	66	Purple Rain (73rd)	38,228
	36	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (38th)	38,129
	37	The Smashing Pumpkins	31	Siamese Dream (55th)	37,793
	38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (67th)	36,471
	39	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (24th)	35,641
	40	Kate Bush	17	Hounds Of Love (52nd)	35,300