Top-ranked artists

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 on this site.	Top Ranked Album 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)	Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
	1	The Beatles	71	Abbey Road (3rd)	257,031
	2	Radiohead	26	OK Computer (1st)	210,321
	3	Pink Floyd	36	The Dark Side Of The Moon (2nd)	180,945
	4	David Bowie	96	The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (7th)	137,652
	5	Bob Dylan	80	Highway 61 Revisited (29th)	119,487
	6	Led Zeppelin	24	Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (11th)	110,716
	7	The Rolling Stones	103	Exile On Main St. (46th)	84,414
	8	Arcade Fire	9	Funeral (15th)	69,697
	9	Neil Young	98	After The Gold Rush (84th)	68,044
	10	Nirvana	17	Nevermind (13th)	67,867
	11	The Velvet Underground	19	The Velvet Underground & Nico (10th)	66,691
	12	Kendrick Lamar	10	To Pimp A Butterfly (20th)	65,705
	13	Miles Davis	126	Kind Of Blue (36th)	62,919
	14	The Smiths	15	The Queen Is Dead (16th)	61,236
	15	R.E.M.	36	Automatic For The People (45th)	57,481
	16	The Beach Boys	76	Pet Sounds (12th)	55,810
	17	Kanye West	15	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (34th)	55,435
	18	The Cure	40	Disintegration (28th)	53,562
	19	Bruce Springsteen	161	Born To Run (78th)	53,260
	20	Pixies	28	Doolittle (17th)	52,844