Top-ranked artists
The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 59,000 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).
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Albums Help
The number of albums by this artist featuring on this site.
Top Ranked Album Help
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)
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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)52,079 23 U2 38 The Joshua Tree (51st)50,927 24 The Doors 48 The Doors (28th)49,879 25 Sufjan Stevens 34 Illinois (43rd)49,868 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)46,629 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)38,728 35 Prince 66 Purple Rain (72nd)38,347 36 The Smashing Pumpkins 30 Siamese Dream (55th)38,003 37 Joy Division 12 Unknown Pleasures (39th)37,702 38 Arctic Monkeys 10 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (69th)36,394 39 My Bloody Valentine 9 Loveless (25th)35,522 40 John Coltrane 90 A Love Supreme (74th)35,355