Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 54,000 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)
21	Talking Heads	16	Remain In Light (26th)	56,668
22	Sufjan Stevens	27	Illinois (43rd)	54,087
23	U2	35	The Joshua Tree (54th)	53,933
24	The Cure	37	Disintegration (31st)	53,823
25	King Crimson	90	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	53,454
26	The Doors	46	The Doors (30th)	53,113
27	The Who	49	Who's Next (40th)	51,736
28	The Clash	19	London Calling (20th)	48,092
29	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	47,211
30	Fleetwood Mac	41	Rumours (21st)	43,809
31	Black Sabbath	46	Paranoid (50th)	43,037
32	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (37th)	42,881
33	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (121st)	42,438
34	Björk	25	Homogenic (92nd)	42,162
35	The Smashing Pumpkins	27	Siamese Dream (55th)	41,880
36	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (103rd)	41,480
37	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (22nd)	41,005
38	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (16th)	40,207
39	Prince	64	Purple Rain (78th)	39,913
40	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (67th)	39,767

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