Top 500 Tango

By the numbers

Stats

302 artists and 432 albums covering 10 decades.

Song range

Oldest Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Bessie Smith — 1929 · #156
Newest Love and Hate Michael Kiwanuka — 2018 · #157

Songs by decade

1920s
1
1930s
4
1940s
4
1950s
17
1960s
109
1970s
127
1980s
99
1990s
100
2000s
32
2010s
7

Best years (top 20 by count)

1994
25
1968
22
1966
21
1972
20
1969
18
1991
17
1967
16
1979
16
1980
16
1977
15
1970
14
1971
14
1993
14
1989
13
1965
12
1975
12
1983
12
1987
12
1973
11
1996
10

Top artists (top 20 by count)

The Beatles
9
Stevie Wonder
8
Bob Marley & The Wailers
7
Queen
7
Radiohead
7
The Rolling Stones
7
Elton John
6
Fleetwood Mac
6
Nirvana
6
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6
Alice in Chains
5
Guns N’ Roses
5
Johnny Cash
5
Manic Street Preachers
5
Rage Against the Machine
5
Bill Withers
4
Black Sabbath
4
David Bowie
4
James Brown
4
Metallica
4

Top albums (top 20 by count)

Dirt — Alice in Chains
4
Rage Against the Machine — Rage Against the Machine
4
The Bends — Radiohead
4
Appetite for Destruction — Guns N’ Roses
3
Armed Forces — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
Dummy — Portishead
3
Electric Ladyland — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3
In Utero — Nirvana
3
Metallica — Metallica
3
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols — Sex Pistols
3
Nevermind — Nirvana
3
OK Computer — Radiohead
3
Paranoid — Black Sabbath
3
Rumours — Fleetwood Mac
3
Songs in the Key of Life — Stevie Wonder
3
Sounds & Visions — David Bowie
3
Thriller — Michael Jackson
3
A Night at the Opera — Queen
2
Abbey Road — The Beatles
2
American IV: The Man Comes Around — Johnny Cash
2