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)	55,992
22	The Cure	39	Disintegration (31st)	54,637
23	U2	36	The Joshua Tree (51st)	53,322
24	Sufjan Stevens	29	Illinois (43rd)	53,092
25	The Doors	46	The Doors (29th)	52,432
26	King Crimson	90	In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) (25th)	52,339
27	The Who	49	Who's Next (40th)	50,833
28	The Clash	19	London Calling (20th)	46,613
29	The Strokes	7	Is This It (24th)	46,318
30	Fleetwood Mac	41	Rumours (21st)	42,871
31	Joy Division	12	Unknown Pleasures (38th)	42,199
32	Black Sabbath	47	Paranoid (52nd)	42,112
33	Björk	27	Homogenic (92nd)	41,768
34	Genesis	34	Selling England By The Pound (125th)	41,536
35	Metallica	30	Master Of Puppets (99th)	41,015
36	The Smashing Pumpkins	27	Siamese Dream (55th)	40,887
37	My Bloody Valentine	9	Loveless (22nd)	39,832
38	Prince	65	Purple Rain (77th)	39,569
39	Neutral Milk Hotel	6	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (17th)	38,800
40	Arctic Monkeys	10	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (70th)	38,758

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