Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 56,000 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)
1	The Beatles	70	Abbey Road (3rd)	280,834
2	Radiohead	23	OK Computer (1st)	234,550
3	Pink Floyd	34	The Dark Side Of The Moon (2nd)	198,715
4	David Bowie	92	The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (7th)	148,336
5	Bob Dylan	78	Highway 61 Revisited (27th)	127,484
6	Led Zeppelin	23	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (11th)	119,755
7	The Rolling Stones	101	Exile On Main St. (44th)	90,768
8	Arcade Fire	8	Funeral (15th)	75,663
9	The Velvet Underground	18	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	73,074
10	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (13th)	73,004
11	Kendrick Lamar	10	To Pimp A Butterfly (19th)	72,134
12	Neil Young	94	After The Gold Rush (82nd)	71,639
13	The Smiths	15	The Queen Is Dead (16th)	66,596
14	Miles Davis	121	Kind Of Blue (36th)	66,552
15	The Beach Boys	74	Pet Sounds (12th)	60,826
16	Kanye West	15	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33rd)	60,209
17	R.E.M.	35	Automatic For The People (49th)	58,761
18	Pixies	27	Doolittle (18th)	57,172
19	Jimi Hendrix	70	Are You Experienced (39th)	56,281
20	Bruce Springsteen	150	Born To Run (76th)	55,408

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