| Rank | Artist | Buy Music |
|---|
| 1 | Radiohead |  |
| 2 | The Beatles | |
| 3 | The Clash | |
| 4 | Pixies | |
| 5 | Bob Dylan | |
| 6 | Led Zeppelin | |
| 7 | Arcade Fire | |
| 8 | David Bowie | |
| 9 | Nirvana | |
| 10 | The Smiths | |
| 11 | Johnny Cash | |
| 12 | Bob Marley and the Wailers | |
| 13 | The Cure | |
| 14 | The Rolling Stones | |
| 15 | Wilco | |
| 16 | Neil Young | |
| 17 | R.E.M | |
| 18 | U2 | |
| 19 | Modest Mouse | |
| 20 | Pink Floyd | |
| 21 | Elliott Smith | |
| 22 | Pearl Jam | |
| 23 | Jimi Hendrix | |
| 24 | Beck | |
| 25 | Talking Heads | |
| 26 | Tom Waits | |
| 27 | Joy Division | |
| 28 | The Velvet Underground | |
| 29 | Beastie Boys | |
| 30 | The White Stripes | |
| 31 | Death Cab For Cutie | |
| 32 | Neko Case | |
| 33 | The Replacements | |
| 34 | Built To Spill | |
| 35 | The National | |
| 36 | New Order | |
| 37 | Bjork | |
| 38 | Pavement | |
| 39 | The Ramones | |
| 40 | Miles Davis | |
| 41 | The Flaming Lips | |
| 42 | Sonic Youth | |
| 43 | Prince | |
| 44 | The Decemberists | |
| 45 | Depeche Mode | |
| 46 | Sigur Ros | |
| 47 | Belle & Sebastian | |
| 48 | Sufjan Stevens | |
| 49 | Neutral Milk Hotel | |
| 50 | Elvis Costello | |
| 51 | Queen | |
| 52 | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 53 | Michael Jackson | |
| 54 | Bruce Springsteen | |
| 55 | Jeff Buckley | |
| 56 | The Who | |
| 57 | Iggy and the Stooges | |
| 58 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | |
| 59 | Public Enemy | |
| 60 | The Beach Boys | |
| 61 | Animal Collective | |
| 62 | The Shins | |
| 63 | James Brown | |
| 64 | Yo La Tengo | |
| 65 | The Kinks | |
| 66 | Fugazi | |
| 67 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | |
| 68 | Spoon | |
| 69 | The Black Keys | |
| 70 | My Morning Jacket | |
| 71 | Nine Inch Nails | |
| 72 | A Tribe Called Quest | |
| 73 | The Doors | |
| 74 | Smashing Pumpkins | |
| 75 | Marvin Gaye | |
| 76 | Leonard Cohen | |
| 77 | Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst | |
| 78 | Iron & Wine | |
| 79 | Band of Horses | |
| 80 | PJ Harvey | |
| 81 | X | |
| 82 | Daft Punk | |
| 83 | Stevie Wonder | |
| 84 | XTC | |
| 85 | Nick Drake | |
| 86 | Fleet Foxes | |
| 87 | Willie Nelson | |
| 88 | Bon Iver | |
| 89 | Soundgarden | |
| 90 | The New Pornographers | |
| 91 | Ella Fitzgerald | |
| 92 | Nina Simone | |
| 93 | Massive Attack | |
| 94 | Brian Eno | |
| 95 | John Coltrane | |
| 96 | Jane's Addiction | |
| 97 | John Lennon | |
| 98 | Phoenix | |
| 99 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 100 | Wu Tang Clan | |
| 101 | The Police | |
| 102 | Elvis Presley | |
| 103 | Morrissey | |
| 104 | Aretha Franklin | |
| 105 | Andrew Bird | |
| 106 | Van Morrison | |
| 107 | Portishead | |
| 108 | Otis Redding | |
| 109 | Paul Simon | |
| 110 | Beirut | |
| 111 | Yeasayer | |
| 112 | Weezer | |
| 113 | Guided By Voices | |
| 114 | TV on the Radio | |
| 115 | Interpol | |
| 116 | The Roots | |
| 117 | Magnetic Fields | |
| 118 | Ryan Adams | |
| 119 | Husker Du | |
| 120 | Sleater-Kinney | |
| 121 | AC/DC | |
| 122 | My Bloody Valentine | |
| 123 | Sunny Day Real Estate | |
| 124 | Outkast | |
| 125 | Cloud Cult | |
| 126 | Gorillaz | |
| 127 | Echo & The Bunnymen | |
| 128 | The Mountain Goats | |
| 129 | The Avett Brothers | |
| 130 | Big Star | |
| 131 | Violent Femmes | |
| 132 | They Might Be Giants | |
| 133 | Cat Power | |
| 134 | Blue Scholars | |
| 135 | Silversun Pickups | |
| 136 | Kraftwerk | |
| 137 | Coldplay | |
| 138 | Cocteau Twins | |
| 139 | Woody Guthrie | |
| 140 | Vampire Weekend | |
| 141 | The Tallest Man on Earth | |
| 142 | Sam Cooke | |
| 143 | Black Sabbath | |
| 144 | The Sex Pistols | |
| 145 | The Band | |
| 146 | The Strokes | |
| 147 | The Jam | |
| 148 | The Hold Steady | |
| 149 | Billy Holiday | |
| 150 | Simon and Garfunkel | |
| 151 | Patti Smith | |
| 152 | M.I.A. | |
| 153 | Jay-Z | |
| 154 | Hank Williams | |
| 155 | Drive-By Truckers | |
| 156 | Curtis Mayfield | |
| 157 | Billy Bragg | |
| 158 | The Thermals | |
| 159 | Television | |
| 160 | Kings Of Leon | |
| 161 | Buddy Holly | |
| 162 | Metallica | |
| 163 | The XX | |
| 164 | Stereolab | |
| 165 | Kate Bush | |
| 166 | Peter Gabriel | |
| 167 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | |
| 168 | Postal Service | |
| 169 | Queens of the Stone Age | |
| 170 | Muse | |
| 171 | Grizzly Bear | |
| 172 | DeVotchKa | |
| 173 | Fela Anikulapo Kuti | |
| 174 | David Byrne | |
| 175 | Bonnie “Prince” Billy/ Will Oldham/Palace Music | |
| 176 | Cat Stevens | |
| 177 | The Knife | |
| 178 | Okkervil River | |
| 179 | Gang of Four | |
| 180 | Ween | |
| 181 | Frightened Rabbit | |
| 182 | Black Angels | |
| 183 | Wolf Parade | |
| 184 | Ray Charles | |
| 185 | Oasis | |
| 186 | Nada Surf | |
| 187 | Devo | |
| 188 | The Fall | |
| 189 | Dandy Warhols | |
| 190 | The Notorious B.I.G. | |
| 191 | Buzzcocks | |
| 192 | Jesus and Mary Chain | |
| 193 | Blondie | |
| 194 | Bloc Party | |
| 195 | Stone Roses | |
| 196 | Chemical Brothers | |
| 197 | The Grateful Dead | |
| 198 | Ben Harper | |
| 199 | Lou Reed | |
| 200 | Siouxie and the Banshees | |
| 201 | Beach House | |
| 202 | Bauhaus | |
| 203 | The The | |
| 204 | Ted Leo & the Pharmacists | |
| 205 | The Pogues | |
| 206 | Chuck Berry | |
| 207 | The B-52s | |
| 208 | Metric | |
| 209 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | |
| 210 | Afghan Whigs | |
| 212 | Menomena | |
| 213 | Uncle Tupelo | |
| 214 | M. Ward | |
| 215 | Thievery Corporation | |
| 216 | Gnarls Barkley | |
| 217 | Roxy Music | |
| 218 | Teenage Fanclub | |
| 219 | DJ Shadow | |
| 220 | Gillian Welch | |
| 221 | Duran Duran | |
| 222 | Lucinda Williams | |
| 223 | The Byrds | |
| 224 | Dinosaur Jr. | |
| 225 | The Wedding Present | |
| 226 | Louis Armstrong | |
| 227 | De La Soul | |
| 228 | Moby | |
| 229 | Muddy Waters | |
| 230 | Mark Lanegan | |
| 231 | The Posies | |
| 232 | Luna | |
| 233 | Joseph Arthur | |
| 234 | Dolly Parton | |
| 235 | Pela | |
| 236 | MGMT | |
| 237 | Funkadelic | |
| 238 | The Head and the Heart | |
| 239 | The Long Winters | |
| 240 | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | |
| 241 | Superchunk | |
| 242 | Throwing Muses | |
| 243 | Modern Lovers/ Jonathan Richman | |
| 244 | The Kills | |
| 245 | Tegan and Sara | |
| 246 | Franz Ferdinand | |
| 247 | Stevie Ray Vaughan | |
| 248 | Dead Kennedys | |
| 249 | Mudhoney | |
| 250 | Regina Spektor | |
| 251 | Mark Kozelek/ Red House Painters/ Sun Kil Moon | |
| 252 | Al Green | |
| 253 | Air | |
| 254 | Hot Chip | |
| 255 | Townes Van Zandt | |
| 256 | The Cave Singers | |
| 257 | The Wrens | |
| 258 | Aimee Mann | |
| 259 | Bob Mould | |
| 260 | Kings of Convenience | |
| 261 | Joni Mitchell | |
| 262 | Howlin' Wolf | |
| 263 | Snoop Doggy Dog | |
| 264 | Elbow | |
| 265 | The Specials | |
| 266 | Gram Parsons | |
| 267 | Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros | |
| 268 | Minutemen | |
| 269 | Arctic Monkeys | |
| 270 | Cake | |
| 271 | Of Montreal | |
| 272 | Blonde Redhead | |
| 273 | Wire | |
| 274 | Cold War Kids | |
| 275 | Whiskeytown | |
| 276 | The Walkmen | |
| 277 | Damien Jurado | |
| 278 | Catherine Wheel | |
| 279 | At the Drive In | |
| 280 | Aphex Twin | |
| 281 | Rufus Wainwright | |
| 282 | Pinback | |
| 283 | NAS | |
| 284 | The Frames | |
| 285 | David Bazan | |
| 286 | The English Beat | |
| 287 | The Dead Weather | |
| 288 | The Chameleons UK | |
| 289 | Feist | |
| 290 | Theloniuous Monk | |
| 291 | INXS | |
| 292 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| 293 | Gang Starr | |
| 294 | Explosions in the Sky | |
| 295 | Passion Pit | |
| 296 | Pulp | |
| 297 | Visqueen | |
| 298 | J Dilla | |
| 299 | Underworld | |
| 300 | Caribou | |
| 301 | Frank Zappa | |
| 302 | Foo Fighters | |
| 303 | Steve Earle | |
| 304 | The Old 97's | |
| 305 | Gomez | |
| 306 | Florence and the Machine | |
| 307 | Soul Coughing | |
| 308 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
| 309 | The Helio Sequence | |
| 310 | Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis | |
| 311 | Bad Brains | |
| 312 | Ghostland Observatory | |
| 313 | Sparklehorse | |
| 314 | Spiritualized | |
| 315 | The Sonics | |
| 316 | The Misfits | |
| 317 | Black Flag | |
| 318 | T. Rex | |
| 319 | Suede | |
| 320 | The Dismemberment Plan | |
| 321 | Loretta Lynn | |
| 322 | Run-DMC | |
| 323 | Charlie Parker | |
| 324 | Calexico | |
| 325 | Bobby Bare Jr. | |
| 326 | Eels | |
| 327 | She & Him | |
| 328 | Atmosphere | |
| 329 | Los Campesinos! | |
| 330 | James | |
| 331 | Toots and the Maytals | |
| 332 | Vic Chesnutt | |
| 333 | Dead Can Dance | |
| 334 | The Orb | |
| 335 | Flight of the Conchords | |
| 336 | Screaming Trees | |
| 337 | Camper Van Beethoven | |
| 338 | Carissa's Weird | |
| 339 | Damien Rice | |
| 340 | The Cars | |
| 341 | Manu Chao | |
| 342 | Parliament | |
| 343 | Crowded House/ Neil Finn | |
| 344 | The Zombies | |
| 345 | Love and Rockets | |
| 346 | Ray Lamontagne | |
| 347 | Kristen Hersh | |
| 348 | Sly and the Family Stone | |
| 349 | M83 | |
| 350 | NWA | |
| 351 | The Moondoggies | |
| 352 | Galaxie 500 | |
| 353 | The Killers | |
| 354 | Joe Jackson | |
| 355 | Tokyo Police Club | |
| 356 | Earth Wind and Fire | |
| 357 | Can | |
| 358 | The Psychedelic Furs | |
| 359 | Grandaddy | |
| 360 | Peter Tosh | |
| 361 | Duke Ellington | |
| 362 | Presidents of the United States of America | |
| 363 | Robyn Hitchcock | |
| 364 | The Church | |
| 365 | Roy Orbison | |
| 366 | Travis | |
| 367 | Jose Gonzalez | |
| 368 | Robert Johnson | |
| 369 | Melvins | |
| 370 | Etta James | |
| 371 | Foals | |
| 372 | Cheap Trick | |
| 373 | Talk Talk | |
| 374 | Antony & the Johnsons | |
| 375 | Lee "Scratch" Perry | |
| 376 | Boards of Canada | |
| 377 | Liz Phair | |
| 378 | Janis Joplin | |
| 379 | Low | |
| 380 | Ministry | |
| 381 | Ratatat | |
| 382 | Bo Diddley | |
| 383 | Gogol Bordello | |
| 384 | Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | |
| 385 | Mission of Burma | |
| 386 | Everything But the Girl | |
| 387 | David Grey | |
| 388 | Surfer Blood | |
| 389 | Common Market | |
| 390 | Bill Withers | |
| 391 | Citizen Cope | |
| 392 | Butthole Surfers | |
| 393 | Crystal Castles | |
| 394 | Smog | |
| 395 | Goldfrapp | |
| 396 | Zero 7 | |
| 397 | The Fugees | |
| 398 | Bomba Estereo | |
| 399 | Thao with The Get Down Stay Down | |
| 400 | Shellac | |
| 401 | Archers of Loaf | |
| 402 | Stars | |
| 403 | Peter Murphy | |
| 404 | Serge Gainsbourg | |
| 405 | Royksopp | |
| 406 | The Dead Milkmen | |
| 407 | Mazzy Star | |
| 408 | Mogwai | |
| 409 | Lily Allen | |
| 410 | Del The Funkee Homosapien | |
| 411 | Le Tigre | |
| 412 | Heart | |
| 413 | Jeremy Enigk | |
| 414 | Doves | |
| 415 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | |
| 416 | Dr. Dog | |
| 417 | Harvey Danger | |
| 418 | Django Reinhardt | |
| 419 | Bill Monroe | |
| 420 | Deer Tick | |
| 421 | Camera Obscura | |
| 422 | Badly Drawn Boy | |
| 423 | Swervedriver | |
| 424 | Caetano Veloso | |
| 425 | Public Image Limited | |
| 426 | MC5 | |
| 427 | Van Halen | |
| 428 | Big Black | |
| 429 | Buffalo Tom | |
| 430 | Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark | |
| 431 | Kiss | |
| 432 | The Small Faces | |
| 433 | The Heavy | |
| 434 | The Gossip | |
| 435 | The Beta Band | |
| 436 | The Avalanches | |
| 437 | Taj Mahal | |
| 438 | Mos Def | |
| 439 | Super Furry Animals | |
| 440 | Rocket From the Crypt | |
| 441 | Snow Patrol | |
| 442 | !!! | |
| 443 | Shearwater | |
| 444 | Ra Ra Riot | |
| 445 | Head Like a Kite | |
| 446 | Pedro the Lion | |
| 447 | Dusty Springfield | |
| 448 | John Lee Hooker | |
| 449 | Mike Doughty | |
| 450 | Miike Snow | |
| 451 | Ozomatli | |
| 452 | Scissor Sisters | |
| 453 | Fever Ray | |
| 454 | Deerhunter | |
| 455 | Love | |
| 456 | Lemonheads | |
| 457 | Daniel Johnston | |
| 458 | Kanye West | |
| 459 | Paul Westerberg | |
| 460 | Broken Bells | |
| 461 | Herbie Hancock | |
| 462 | The Clean | |
| 463 | Donovan | |
| 464 | Fruit Bats | |
| 465 | Elvis Perkins in Dearland | |
| 466 | Cracker | |
| 467 | Buena Vista Social Club | |
| 468 | Charles Mingus | |
| 469 | Clem Snide | |
| 470 | Buffalo Springfield | |
| 471 | Descendents | |
| 472 | Born Ruffians | |
| 473 | 13th Floor Elevators | |
| 474 | Califone | |
| 475 | Blitzen Trapper | |
| 476 | Alejandro Escovedo | |
| 477 | The Raveonettes | |
| 478 | American Music Club | |
| 479 | The Libertines | |
| 480 | Adam and the Ants | |
| 481 | A Place To Bury Strangers | |
| 482 | Fresh Espresso | |
| 483 | Ventures | |
| 484 | The Verve | |
| 485 | Waylon Jennings | |
| 486 | Temple of the Dog | |
| 487 | The Breeders | |
| 488 | Sugarcubes | |
| 489 | The Meters | |
| 490 | The Streets | |
| 491 | The Raconteurs | |
| 492 | The Jesus Lizard | |
| 493 | Sugar | |
| 494 | The Gits | |
| 495 | Supersuckers | |
| 496 | We Were Promised Jetpacks | |
| 497 | Pere Ubu | |
| 499 | Slint | |
| 500 | Peter Bjorn and John | |
| 501 | St. Vincent | |
| 502 | Sleigh Bells | |
| 503 | School of Seven Bells | |
| 504 | Frank Black/ Black Francis | |
| 505 | McLusky | |
| 506 | Rancid | |
| 507 | Basement Jaxx | |
| 508 | The Supremes | |
| 509 | Link Wray | |
| 510 | Lloyd Cole | |
| 511 | Ladytron | |
| 512 | Joan Jett | |
| 513 | Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 | |
| 514 | Leadbelly | |
| 515 | Young Fresh Fellows | |
| 516 | Erykah Badu | |
| 517 | Fatboy Slim | |
| 518 | Eagles of Death Metal | |
| 519 | Dick Dale | |
| 520 | Matt & Kim | |
| 521 | The Pretenders | |
| 522 | Devendra Banhart | |
| 523 | Bat For Lashes | |
| 524 | Common | |
| 525 | Tricky | |
| 526 | Bikini Kill | |
| 527 | Best Coast | |
| 528 | Beat Happening | |
| 529 | Captain Beefheart | |
| 530 | Brian Jonestown Massacre | |
| 531 | 16 Horsepower | |
| 532 | The Jayhawks | |
| 533 | Murder City Devils | |
| 534 | Unrest | |
| 535 | And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead | |
| 536 | Art Brut | |
| 537 | The Damned | |
| 538 | The Wailers | |
| 539 | Killing Joke | |
| 540 | Battles | |
| 541 | Rogue Wave | |
| 542 | Cream | |
| 543 | The Feelies | |
| 544 | Son Volt | |
| 545 | The Horrors | |
| 546 | The Chills | |
| 547 | The Charlatans UK | |
| 548 | Squeeze | |
| 549 | Ride | |
| 550 | Sky Cries Mary | |
| 551 | Airborne Toxic Event | |
| 552 | R.L.Burnside | |
| 553 | The Delgados | |
| 554 | Ned's Atomic Dustbin | |
| 555 | Jackson 5 | |
