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CHARTLINE ALL-TIME RANKING

Greatest SongsGreatest Artists

Greatest Artists
of All Time

Chartline Artist Rating measures an artist's overall achievement across their charting songs, balancing superstar-level hits, catalog depth, sustained success, and performance relative to the artist's era.

8,717Ranked artists
Top 10Full core credit
v1.0Artist Rating

Showing ranks

1–100

Page 1 of 88

RankArtistRatingSongs#1sTop 10s
#12

Usher

Best song: Yeah!

30.2182Artist Rating
54songs
9#1 songs
18Top 10
#47

SZA

Best song: Kill Bill

21.3916Artist Rating
61songs
3#1 songs
12Top 10
#68

Nelly

Best song: Dilemma

18.9295Artist Rating
37songs
4#1 songs
14Top 10
#85

Flo Rida

Best song: Low

17.5420Artist Rating
29songs
3#1 songs
11Top 10
#98

Cher

Best song: Believe

16.5029Artist Rating
34songs
4#1 songs
12Top 10

METHODOLOGY

How Artist Rating works

01

Core

An artist's 10 strongest charting songs form the Core score, with each song adjusted for the artist's billing credit.

02

Depth

Songs beyond the Top 10 continue contributing with diminishing weight, rewarding deep catalogs without letting catalog size dominate.

03

Era

Song performance is evaluated relative to its chart era so artists from different periods can be compared consistently.

04

Artist credit

Principal artists receive 100% ranking credit, co-billed artists receive 70%, and featured artists receive 35%. Every credited artist still receives the song in their Chartline catalog.

Chartline Artist Rating is based only on chart performance. It does not use streaming totals, awards, album sales, touring revenue, cultural importance, or subjective judgments.