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)
81 Marvin Gaye 42 What's Going On (48th)23,447 82 The Stone Roses 10 The Stone Roses (33rd)23,223 83 AC/DC 28 Back In Black (133rd)23,146 84 The White Stripes 16 Elephant (114th)22,870 85 Blur 25 Parklife (203rd)22,717 86 Leonard Cohen 27 Songs Of Leonard Cohen (140th)22,546 87 Green Day 26 American Idiot (148th)22,124 88 Steely Dan 21 Aja (151st)22,066 89 Tool 8 Lateralus (163rd)22,010 90 Elliott Smith 9 Either/Or (130th)22,007 91 Frank Ocean 4 Blond (94th)21,886 92 Daft Punk 15 Discovery (132nd)21,772 93 PJ Harvey 22 Let England Shake (278th)21,650 94 Animal Collective 32 Merriweather Post Pavilion (162nd)21,238 95 Gorillaz 12 Demon Days (144th)21,069 96 Can 33 Tago Mago (156th)20,936 97 Paul McCartney 49 Band On The Run (261st)20,715 98 Lana Del Rey 11 Norman Fucking Rockwell! (196th)20,266 99 Beck 21 Odelay (273rd)19,935 100 Television 6 Marquee Moon (44th)19,853