Most Listed Artists

Here are the 100 or so artists with the most number of A-listed songs. If a song has been listed two or more times, each listing still counts towards the total in the third column. The fourth column shows how many of the A-listings are repeats of previously listed songs.

Rank	Artist	A-listers	Re-zeds
1	The Beatles	58	1
2	The Rolling Stones	50	2
3	Bob Dylan	49
4	The Beach Boys	45	2
5	Bruce Springsteen	44
6	David Bowie	44	2
7	Tom Waits	42	1
8	Grateful Dead	41
9	Ella Fitzgerald	40
10	Joni Mitchell	36
11	Kate Bush	36	2
12	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	35	3
13	Stevie Wonder	32
14	Pink Floyd	32	2
15	The Fall	30
15	The Smiths	30
17	The Who	30	1
18	Billy Bragg	29
18	R.E.M.	29
20	Captain Beefheart	29	1
21	Johnny Cash	28
22	The Pogues	28	1
22	Prince	28	1
24	Elvis Costello	27
25	The Cure	27	1
26	The Kinks	26
27	Louis Armstrong	26	1
27	Van Morrison	26	1
27	Neil Young	26	1
30	Nina Simone	25	1
31	Elvis Presley	24
32	The Clash	24	1
33	Leonard Cohen	23
34	Half Man Half Biscuit	23	1
34	Miles Davis	23	1
36	James Brown	22
36	Jimi Hendrix	22
36	Richard Thompson	22
36	XTC	22
40	Marvin Gaye	22	1
40	Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	22	1
40	Gil Scott-Heron	22	1
43	Bob Marley	21
43	Pet Shop Boys	21
43	Pixies	21
43	Jake Thackray	21
43	Scott Walker	21
43	Frank Zappa	21
49	Fela Kuti	21	1
49	Frank Sinatra	21	1
49	Talking Heads	21	3
52	The Byrds	20
52	John Cale	20
52	Aretha Franklin	20
52	Kraftwerk	20
52	Pulp	20
52	Lou Reed	20
58	Serge Gainsbourg	20	1
58	Radiohead	20	1
60	Brian Eno	20	3
61	Björk	19
61	P J Harvey	19
61	Paul Kelly	19
61	Loudon Wainwright III	19
65	The Velvet Underground	19	1
66	Peter Hammill	18
66	Led Zeppelin	18
66	Randy Newman	18
69	Roxy Music	18	1
69	The Specials	18	1
69	The Streets	18	1
69	The Temptations	18	1
73	Belle and Sebastian	17
73	The Jam	17
73	Jackie Leven	17
73	Queen	17
77	Billie Holiday	17	1
77	John Lennon	17	1
79	Ray Charles	16
79	The Decemberists	16
79	Ian Dury	16
79	Ramones	16
79	Sly and the Family Stone	16
79	Sonic Youth	16
79	Sufjan Stevens	16
79	Van der Graaf Generator	16
79	Wire	16
79	Robert Wyatt	16
79	Warren Zevon	16
90	AC/DC	16	1
90	Nick Drake	16	1
90	Public Enemy	16	1
93	The Beautiful South	15
93	Blondie	15
93	Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band	15
93	Dexys Midnight Runners	15
93	Fairport Convention	15
93	Paul Simon	15
93	Siouxsie and the Banshees	15
93	Al Stewart	15
93	The Stranglers	15
102	10,000 Maniacs	15	1
102	Mark Knopfler	15	1
104	The Go-Betweens	14
104	The Jesus and Mary Chain	14
104	Katzenjammer	14
104	Madness	14
104	New Order	14
104	Simon & Garfunkel	14
104	Dusty Springfield	14
104	Steeleye Span	14
104	The White Stripes	14
104	Wilco	14
114	Charles Mingus	14	1
114	The Unthanks	14	1
116	The Divine Comedy	14	2
116	Yo La Tengo	14	2
118	Arctic Monkeys	13
118	Barenaked Ladies	13
118	Ry Cooder	13
118	Donovan	13
118	Elton John	13
118	The Magnetic Fields	13
1187	The Monkees	13
118	Karine Polwart	13
118	Todd Rundgren	13
118	Sparks	13
118	They Might Be Giants	13
129	Kevin Ayers	13	1
129	Beyoncé	13	1
129	Curtis Mayfield	13	1
129	Mischief Brew	13	1
129	The Pretenders	13	1
129	Suzanne Vega	13	1
135	ABBA	13	2