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)	52,465
	22	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (26th)	52,078
	23	U2	38	The Joshua Tree (51st)	50,928
	24	The Doors	48	The Doors (28th)	49,879
	25	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	49,865
	26	King Crimson	99	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (24th)	48,659
	27	The Who	51	Who's Next (41st)	46,627
	28	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	43,586
	29	The Clash	19	London Calling (21st)	42,110
	30	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (48th)	41,414
	31	Fleetwood Mac	44	Rumours (19th)	40,267
	32	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (93rd)	40,240
	33	Björk	30	Homogenic (90th)	39,937
	34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	38,731
	35	Prince	66	Purple Rain (72nd)	38,344
	36	The Smashing Pumpkins	30	Siamese Dream (55th)	38,003
	37	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (39th)	37,694
	38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (69th)	36,389
	39	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (25th)	35,522
	40	John Coltrane	90	A Love Supreme (74th)	35,355