Top-ranked artists

The top-ranked artists that appear most prominently in over 55,000 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	17	Remain In Light (26th)	56,076
22	The Cure	39	Disintegration (31st)	54,743
23	U2	36	The Joshua Tree (51st)	53,416
24	Sufjan Stevens	29	Illinois (43rd)	53,054
25	The Doors	46	The Doors (29th)	52,605
26	King Crimson	90	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	52,296
27	The Who	49	Who's Next (40th)	50,673
28	The Clash	19	London Calling (20th)	46,442
29	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	46,201
30	Fleetwood Mac	41	Rumours (21st)	42,813
31	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (50th)	42,293
32	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (38th)	41,986
33	Björk	27	Homogenic (92nd)	41,855
34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (126th)	41,593
35	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (99th)	41,394
36	The Smashing Pumpkins	27	Siamese Dream (55th)	40,630
37	Prince	65	Purple Rain (76th)	39,790
38	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (22nd)	39,672
39	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (17th)	38,761
40	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (70th)	38,657

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