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)
1 The Beatles 71 Abbey Road (3rd)260,024 2 Radiohead 25 OK Computer (1st)213,285 3 Pink Floyd 36 The Dark Side Of The Moon (2nd)183,267 4 David Bowie 96 The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (8th)139,330 5 Bob Dylan 80 Highway 61 Revisited (27th)120,332 6 Led Zeppelin 24 Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (11th)111,406 7 The Rolling Stones 103 Exile On Main St. (45th)84,942 8 Arcade Fire 9 Funeral (15th)70,053 9 Neil Young 97 After The Gold Rush (83rd)68,624 10 Nirvana 17 Nevermind (13th)68,117 11 The Velvet Underground 18 The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)67,002 12 Kendrick Lamar 10 To Pimp A Butterfly (20th)66,904 13 Miles Davis 126 Kind Of Blue (37th)63,200 14 The Smiths 15 The Queen Is Dead (16th)61,743 15 R.E.M. 36 Automatic For The People (46th)57,845 16 The Beach Boys 76 Pet Sounds (12th)56,256 17 Kanye West 15 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (35th)56,136 18 Bruce Springsteen 161 Born To Run (78th)53,755 19 The Cure 40 Disintegration (29th)53,681 20 Pixies 28 Doolittle (18th)53,121