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)	52,332
	22	Talking Heads	18	Remain In Light (26th)	51,973
	23	U2	38	The Joshua Tree (51st)	50,762
	24	The Doors	48	The Doors (27th)	49,796
	25	Sufjan Stevens	34	Illinois (43rd)	49,522
	26	King Crimson	100	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	48,284
	27	The Who	51	Who's Next (41st)	46,462
	28	The Strokes	8	Is This It (23rd)	43,466
	29	The Clash	19	London Calling (21st)	41,805
	30	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (50th)	41,564
	31	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (93rd)	40,114
	32	Fleetwood Mac	44	Rumours (19th)	40,094
	33	Björk	30	Homogenic (90th)	39,852
	34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (126th)	38,536
	35	Prince	66	Purple Rain (73rd)	38,163
	36	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (38th)	38,037
	37	The Smashing Pumpkins	31	Siamese Dream (55th)	37,962
	38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (67th)	36,568
	39	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (24th)	35,453
	40	The National	18	High Violet (123rd)	35,274