Top 500 Tango

By the numbers

Stats

222 artists and 313 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
3
1940s
2
1950s
11
1960s
80
1970s
85
1980s
69
1990s
83
2000s
28
2010s
7

Best years (top 20 by count)

1994
22
1972
16
1969
15
1966
14
1967
14
1968
13
1977
13
1993
12
1965
11
1979
11
1987
11
1991
11
1980
10
1989
10
1970
9
1971
9
1983
9
1995
8
1996
8
1973
7

Top artists (top 20 by count)

The Beatles
8
Queen
7
Stevie Wonder
7
The Rolling Stones
7
Bob Marley & The Wailers
6
Radiohead
6
Guns N’ Roses
5
Manic Street Preachers
5
Nirvana
5
Alice in Chains
4
Bill Withers
4
Fleetwood Mac
4
Metallica
4
Rage Against the Machine
4
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4
Aretha Franklin
3
Black Sabbath
3
Blondie
3
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
David Bowie
3

Top albums (top 20 by count)

Appetite for Destruction — Guns N’ Roses
3
Armed Forces — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
Dirt — Alice in Chains
3
Dummy — Portishead
3
In Utero — Nirvana
3
Metallica — Metallica
3
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols — Sex Pistols
3
OK Computer — Radiohead
3
Rage Against the Machine — Rage Against the Machine
3
Songs in the Key of Life — Stevie Wonder
3
Sounds & Visions — David Bowie
3
The Bends — Radiohead
3
A Night at the Opera — Queen
2
Abbey Road — The Beatles
2
American IV: The Man Comes Around — Johnny Cash
2
At Last! — Etta James
2
Back to Black — Amy Winehouse
2
Blue Lines — Massive Attack
2
Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers
2
Doolittle — Pixies
2