Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 53,000 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)
21	Talking Heads	15	Remain In Light (27th)	57,312
22	Sufjan Stevens	27	Illinois (42nd)	55,095
23	U2	35	The Joshua Tree (52nd)	54,327
24	King Crimson	89	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	54,125
25	The Doors	45	The Doors (30th)	54,010
26	The Cure	37	Disintegration (31st)	53,930
27	The Who	48	Who's Next (40th)	52,868
28	The Clash	19	London Calling (20th)	48,590
29	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	48,322
30	Fleetwood Mac	41	Rumours (21st)	44,438
31	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (37th)	43,785
32	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	43,423
33	Black Sabbath	45	Paranoid (54th)	42,473
34	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (22nd)	42,037
35	The Smashing Pumpkins	26	Siamese Dream (55th)	41,884
36	Björk	25	Homogenic (95th)	41,859
37	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (16th)	41,659
38	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (66th)	41,215
39	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (105th)	40,760
40	Prince	63	Purple Rain (82nd)	39,242

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