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)	52,457
	22	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (26th)	52,047
	23	U2	38	The Joshua Tree (51st)	50,927
	24	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	49,783
	25	The Doors	48	The Doors (28th)	49,745
	26	King Crimson	99	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	48,436
	27	The Who	51	Who's Next (41st)	46,514
	28	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	43,542
	29	The Clash	19	London Calling (21st)	42,062
	30	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (49th)	41,356
	31	Fleetwood Mac	44	Rumours (19th)	40,223
	32	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (92nd)	40,209
	33	Björk	30	Homogenic (90th)	39,892
	34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	38,699
	35	Prince	66	Purple Rain (72nd)	38,258
	36	The Smashing Pumpkins	30	Siamese Dream (55th)	37,948
	37	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (39th)	37,765
	38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (68th)	36,416
	39	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (24th)	35,480
	40	Kate Bush	17	Hounds Of Love (53rd)	35,254