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

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RankArtistRatingSongs#1sTop 10s
#114

Santana

Best song: Smooth

15.1731Artist Rating
23songs
2#1 songs
6Top 10
#115

DaBaby

Best song: Rockstar

15.1637Artist Rating
55songs
1#1 songs
5Top 10
#124

TLC

Best song: Creep

14.7499Artist Rating
16songs
4#1 songs
9Top 10
#131

Gunna

Best song: Fukumean

14.4633Artist Rating
99songs
0#1 songs
4Top 10
#143

Heart

Best song: Alone

14.0167Artist Rating
29songs
2#1 songs
9Top 10
#145

Bon Jovi

Best song: Always

13.9248Artist Rating
25songs
4#1 songs
10Top 10
#150

BTS

Best song: Butter

13.7543Artist Rating
40songs
6#1 songs
10Top 10
#167

Akon

Best song: Smack That

12.9674Artist Rating
37songs
2#1 songs
13Top 10
#180

Ne-Yo

Best song: So Sick

12.6254Artist Rating
30songs
2#1 songs
12Top 10
#184

Kesha

Best song: TiK ToK

12.5456Artist Rating
23songs
3#1 songs
10Top 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.