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 (38th)	52,270
	22	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (26th)	52,088
	23	U2	38	The Joshua Tree (51st)	50,948
	24	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	49,879
	25	The Doors	48	The Doors (28th)	49,554
	26	King Crimson	99	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	48,625
	27	The Who	51	Who's Next (40th)	46,640
	28	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	43,595
	29	The Clash	19	London Calling (21st)	42,121
	30	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (49th)	41,037
	31	Fleetwood Mac	44	Rumours (19th)	40,219
	32	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (93rd)	40,155
	33	Björk	30	Homogenic (90th)	39,948
	34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	38,741
	35	Prince	66	Purple Rain (72nd)	38,323
	36	The Smashing Pumpkins	30	Siamese Dream (55th)	37,976
	37	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (39th)	37,685
	38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (69th)	36,401
	39	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (24th)	35,526
	40	John Coltrane	90	A Love Supreme (74th)	35,362