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	Kate Bush	37	2
11	Joni Mitchell	36
12	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	35	3
13	Stevie Wonder	32
14	Pink Floyd	32	2
15	The Fall	31
16	R.E.M.	30
16	The Smiths	30
16	Richard Thompson	30
19	The Who	30	1
20	Billy Bragg	29
21	Captain Beefheart	29	1
22	Johnny Cash	28
23	The Pogues	28	1
23	Prince	28	1
25	Elvis Costello	27
26	The Cure	27	1
27	The Kinks	26
28	Louis Armstrong	26	1
28	Van Morrison	26	1
28	Neil Young	26	1
31	Nina Simone	25	1
32	Elvis Presley	24
33	The Clash	24	1
34	Leonard Cohen	23
35	Half Man Half Biscuit	23	1
35	Miles Davis	23	1
37	James Brown	22
37	Jimi Hendrix	22
37	XTC	22
37	Frank Zappa	22
41	Marvin Gaye	22	1
41	Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	22	1
41	Gil Scott-Heron	22	1
44	Bob Marley	21
44	Pet Shop Boys	21
44	Pixies	21
44	Jake Thackray	21
44	Scott Walker	21
49	Fela Kuti	21	1
49	Frank Sinatra	21	1
51	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	Jackie Leven	18
66	Randy Newman	18
70	Roxy Music	18	1
70	The Specials	18	1
70	The Streets	18	1
70	The Temptations	18	1
74	Belle and Sebastian	17
74	Ray Charles	17
74	The Jam	17
74	Queen	17
78	Billie Holiday	17	1
78	John Lennon	17	1
80	The Decemberists	16
80	Ian Dury	16
80	Ramones	16
80	Sly and the Family Stone	16
80	Sonic Youth	16
80	Sufjan Stevens	16
80	Van der Graaf Generator	16
80	Wire	16
80	Robert Wyatt	16
80	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
93	The White Stripes	15
103	10,000 Maniacs	15	1
103	Mark Knopfler	15	1
105	The Go-Betweens	14
105	The Jesus and Mary Chain	14
105	Katzenjammer	14
105	Madness	14
105	New Order	14
105	Simon & Garfunkel	14
105	Dusty Springfield	14
105	Steeleye Span	14
105	They Might Be Giants	14
105	Wilco	14
115	Charles Mingus	14	1
115	The Unthanks	14	1
117	The Divine Comedy	14	2
117	Yo La Tengo	14	2
119	Arctic Monkeys	13
119	Barenaked Ladies	13
119	Ry Cooder	13
119	Donovan	13
119	Elton John	13
119	The Magnetic Fields	13
119	The Monkees	13
119	Karine Polwart	13
119	Todd Rundgren	13
119	Sparks	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