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	60	1
2	Bob Dylan	51
3	The Rolling Stones	50	2
4	The Beach Boys	45	2
5	Bruce Springsteen	44
6	David Bowie	44	2
7	Tom Waits	43	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	The Fall	32
13	Stevie Wonder	32
15	Pink Floyd	32	2
16	Richard Thompson	31
17	R.E.M.	30
17	The Smiths	30
19	The Who	30	1
20	Billy Bragg	29
21	Captain Beefheart	29	1
22	Johnny Cash	28
22	Elvis Costello	28
24	The Pogues	28	1
24	Prince	28	1
26	The Kinks	27
27	The Cure	27	1
27	Neil Young	27	1
29	Louis Armstrong	26	1
29	Van Morrison	26	1
31	Nina Simone	25	1
32	Elvis Presley	24
33	The Clash	24	1
33	Miles Davis	24	1
33	Half Man Half Biscuit	24	1
36	Leonard Cohen	23
36	XTC	23
36	Frank Zappa	23
39	James Brown	22
39	Jimi Hendrix	22
41	Marvin Gaye	22	1
41	Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	22	1
41	Gil Scott-Heron	22	1
44	Aretha Franklin	21
44	Bob Marley	21
44	Pet Shop Boys	21
44	Pixies	21
44	Jake Thackray	21
44	Scott Walker	21
50	Fela Kuti	21	1
50	Frank Sinatra	21	1
52	Serge Gainsbourg	21	2
53	Talking Heads	21	3
54	Björk	20
54	The Byrds	20
54	John Cale	20
54	Paul Kelly	20
54	Kraftwerk	20
54	Pulp	20
54	Lou Reed	20
61	Radiohead	20	1
62	Brian Eno	20	3
63	P J Harvey	19
63	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
74	Paul Simon	17
79	Nick Drake	17	1
79	Billie Holiday	17	1
79	John Lennon	17	1
82	The Decemberists	16
82	Ian Dury	16
82	Ramones	16
82	Sly and the Family Stone	16
82	Sonic Youth	16
82	Sufjan Stevens	16
82	Van der Graaf Generator	16
82	Wire	16
82	Robert Wyatt	16
82	Warren Zevon	16
92	AC/DC	16	1
92	Public Enemy	16	1
94	The Beautiful South	15
94	Blondie	15
94	Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band	15
94	Dexys Midnight Runners	15
94	Fairport Convention	15
94	Siouxsie and the Banshees	15
94	Al Stewart	15
94	The Stranglers	15
94	The White Stripes	15
103	10,000 Maniacs	15	1
103	Mark Knopfler	15	1
103	Sparks	15	1
106	The Go-Betweens	14
106	The Jesus and Mary Chain	14
106	Katzenjammer	14
106	Madness	14
106	New Order	14
106	Karine Polwart	14
106	Simon & Garfunkel	14
106	Dusty Springfield	14
106	Steeleye Span	14
106	They Might Be Giants	14
106	Wilco	14
117	Charles Mingus	14	1
117	The Unthanks	14	1
117	Suzanne Vega	14	1
120	The Divine Comedy	14	2
120	Yo La Tengo	14	2
122	Arctic Monkeys	13
122	Barenaked Ladies	13
122	Cocteau Twins	13
122	Ry Cooder	13
122	Donovan	13
122	Elton John	13
122	The Magnetic Fields	13
122	The Monkees	13
122	Joanna Newsom	13
122	Todd Rundgren	13
132	Kevin Ayers	13	1
132	Beyoncé	13	1
132	Curtis Mayfield	13	1
132	Mischief Brew	13	1
132	The Pretenders	13	1
137	ABBA	13	2