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)23,449 82 The Stone Roses 10 The Stone Roses (33rd)23,274 83 AC/DC 28 Back In Black (131st)23,146 84 The White Stripes 16 Elephant (114th)22,864 85 Blur 25 Parklife (203rd)22,688 86 Leonard Cohen 27 Songs Of Leonard Cohen (143rd)22,499 87 Green Day 26 American Idiot (147th)22,190 88 Steely Dan 21 Aja (150th)22,146 89 Frank Ocean 4 Blond (94th)21,914 90 Elliott Smith 9 Either/Or (129th)21,836 91 Daft Punk 15 Discovery (134th)21,791 92 Tool 8 Lateralus (171st)21,560 93 PJ Harvey 22 Let England Shake (279th)21,509 94 Animal Collective 32 Merriweather Post Pavilion (161st)21,244 95 Gorillaz 12 Demon Days (144th)21,037 96 Can 33 Tago Mago (155th)21,031 97 Paul McCartney 49 Band On The Run (257th)20,637 98 Lana Del Rey 11 Norman Fucking Rockwell! (197th)20,190 99 Television 6 Marquee Moon (44th)19,966 100 Pavement 17 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (176th)19,828