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	Johnny Cash	28
21	Captain Beefheart	28	1
21	The Pogues	28	1
21	Prince	28	1
24	Elvis Costello	27
25	The Cure	27	1
26	Louis Armstrong	26	1
26	Van Morrison	26	1
26	Neil Young	26	1
29	The Kinks	25
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
35	James Brown	22
35	Jimi Hendrix	22
35	Richard Thompson	22
35	XTC	22
39	Miles Davis	22	1
39	Marvin Gaye	22	1
39	Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	22	1
39	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	Björk	19
60	P J Harvey	19
60	Paul Kelly	19
60	Loudon Wainwright III	19
64	The Velvet Underground	19	1
65	Brian Eno	19	3
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	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
101	10,000 Maniacs	15	1
101	Mark Knopfler	15	1
103	Blondie	14
103	The Go-Betweens	14
103	Katzenjammer	14
103	Madness	14
103	New Order	14
103	Simon & Garfunkel	14
103	Dusty Springfield	14
103	Steeleye Span	14
103	The White Stripes	14
103	Wilco	14
113	Charles Mingus	14	1
113	The Unthanks	14	1
115	The Divine Comedy	14	2
115	Yo La Tengo	14	2
117	Arctic Monkeys	13
117	Barenaked Ladies	13
117	Ry Cooder	13
117	Donovan	13
117	The Jesus and Mary Chain	13
117	Elton John	13
117	The Magnetic Fields	13
117	The Monkees	13
117	Karine Polwart	13
117	Todd Rundgren	13
117	Sparks	13
117	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