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	Bob Dylan	49
3	The Rolling Stones	48	2
4	Bruce Springsteen	44
5	The Beach Boys	44	2
6	David Bowie	42	1
7	Grateful Dead	40
8	Tom Waits	40	1
9	Ella Fitzgerald	39
10	Joni Mitchell	36
11	Kate Bush	35	2
12	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	33	3
13	Pink Floyd	32	2
14	The Fall	30
14	Stevie Wonder	30
16	The Smiths	30	1
16	The Who	30	1
18	R.E.M.	28
19	The Pogues	28	1
20	Johnny Cash	27
20	Elvis Costello	27
22	Prince	27	1
23	Billy Bragg	26
23	Captain Beefheart	26
25	Louis Armstrong	26	1
25	The Cure	26	1
27	The Kinks	25
28	Nina Simone	25	1
28	Neil Young	25	1
30	The Clash	24	1
30	Van Morrison	24	1
32	Leonard Cohen	23
32	Elvis Presley	23
34	James Brown	22
34	Richard Thompson	22
34	XTC	22
37	Miles Davis	22	1
37	Marvin Gaye	22	1
37	Half Man Half Biscuit	22	1
37	Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	22	1
41	Jimi Hendrix	21
41	Pet Shop Boys	21
41	Pixies	21
41	Scott Walker	21
41	Frank Zappa	21
46	Fela Kuti	21	1
46	Gil Scott-Heron	21	1
46	Frank Sinatra	21	1
46	Talking Heads	21	3
50	The Byrds	20
50	John Cale	20
50	Aretha Franklin	20
50	Kraftwerk	20
50	Bob Marley	20
50	Pulp	20
56	Björk	19
56	P J Harvey	19
56	Paul Kelly	19
56	Lou Reed	19
56	Loudon Wainwright III	19
61	Serge Gainsbourg	19	1
61	The Velvet Underground	19	1
63	Brian Eno	19	3
64	Peter Hammill	18
64	Led Zeppelin	18
64	Randy Newman	18
64	Jake Thackray	18
68	Radiohead	18	1
68	Roxy Music	18	1
68	The Specials	18	1
68	The Streets	18	1
68	The Temptations	18	1
73	The Jam	17
73	Queen	17
75	Billie Holiday	17	1
75	John Lennon	17	1
77	Ray Charles	16
77	The Decemberists	16
77	Ian Dury	16
77	Jackie Leven	16
77	Ramones	16
77	Sonic Youth	16
77	Sufjan Stevens	16
77	Van der Graaf Generator	16
77	Robert Wyatt	16
77	Warren Zevon	16
87	AC/DC	16	1
87	Nick Drake	16	1
87	Public Enemy	16	1
90	The Beautiful South	15
90	Belle and Sebastian	15
90	Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band	15
90	Fairport Convention	15
90	Paul Simon	15
90	Sly & the Family Stone	15
90	Al Stewart	15
90	Wire	15
98	10,000 Maniacs	15	1
98	Mark Knopfler	15	1
100	Blondie	14
100	The Go-Betweens	14
100	Madness	14
100	Simon & Garfunkel	14
100	Siouxsie and the Banshees	14
100	Dusty Springfield	14
100	Steeleye Span	14
100	The Stranglers	14
100	The White Stripes	14
100	Wilco	14
110	Charles Mingus	14	1
110	The Unthanks	14	1
112	The Divine Comedy	14	2
112	Yo La Tengo	14	2
114	Arctic Monkeys	13
114	Barenaked Ladies	13
114	Ry Cooder	13
114	Dexys Midnight Runners	13
114	Donovan	13
114	The Jesus and Mary Chain	13
114	Katzenjammer	13
114	The Monkees	13
114	New Order	13
114	Karine Polwart	13
114	Todd Rundgren	13
114	Sparks	13
114	They Might Be Giants	13
127	Kevin Ayers	13	1
127	Mischief Brew	13	1
127	The Pretenders	13	1