200 Most Acclaimed Musicians/Bands - Statistics

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  • The average score is 59 of 200
Answer Stats
# Musician/Band Genre(s) % Correct
1 The Beatles Pop Rock
93%
12 Elvis Presley Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
83%
29 Michael Jackson Pop Rock, Disco, Dance Pop
80%
18 Nirvana Grunge
80%
3 The Rolling Stones Blues Rock, Pop Rock
80%
2 Bob Dylan Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
75%
83 Elton John Piano Rock, Pop Rock
74%
85 Queen Hard Rock, Pop Rock
73%
77 Metallica Metal
72%
4 David Bowie Art Rock, Glam Rock
67%
73 AC/DC Hard Rock
65%
104 Eminem Hardcore Hip Hop, Pop Rap
65%
8 Led Zeppelin Hard Rock, Blues Rock
65%
27 Bob Marley and The Wailers Reggae
63%
22 Pink Floyd Progressive Rock, Art Rock
63%
171 Janet Jackson R&B, Dance Pop
61%
90 Black Sabbath Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
60%
26 Madonna Dance Pop
60%
34 Aretha Franklin Soul
59%
99 Al Green Soul
57%
36 Jay-Z East Coast Hip Hop
57%
59 Oasis Britpop, Pop Rock
57%
19 The Clash Punk Rock
56%
10 The Beach Boys Pop Rock, Baroque Pop
55%
14 The Who Hard Rock, Mod
55%
15 U2 Pop Rock, Alternative Rock
55%
86 Sex Pistols Punk Rock
54%
20 Jimi Hendrix Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
53%
48 John Lennon Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
52%
24 Stevie Wonder Funk, Soul
52%
70 Beyoncé R&B, Pop
51%
5 Bruce Springsteen Heartland Rock
51%
96 Guns N' Roses Hard Rock
51%
148 Green Day Pop Punk
50%
56 Johnny Cash Country, Americana
50%
9 Prince Pop Rock, Funk Rock
50%
49 The Doors Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
50%
6 Radiohead Art Rock, Alternative Rock
49%
21 Marvin Gaye Soul
48%
94 Patti Smith Proto-Punk, Singer/Songwriter
48%
135 Aerosmith Hard Rock
47%
13 Kanye West Hip Hop, Pop Rap
47%
16 Miles Davis Jazz
47%
68 Chuck Berry Rock & Roll
46%
102 Nick Drake Folk, Singer/Songwriter
46%
67 Frank Sinatra Vocal Jazz
45%
112 Pearl Jam Grunge
45%
184 The Notorious B.I.G Gangsta Rap, East Coast Hip Hop
45%
80 The Police New Wave, Pop Rock
45%
125 Eagles Country Rock, Pop Rock
44%
138 Elliot Smith Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
44%
161 Paul McCartney Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
44%
41 The Kinks Pop Rock, Mod
44%
113 Drake R&B, Pop Rap, Trap
43%
164 Dr. Dre Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
43%
106 Paul Simon Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
43%
60 Fleetwood Mac Pop Rock, Soft Rock
42%
195 Foo Fighters Post-Grunge
42%
111 Louis Armstrong Vocal Jazz
42%
7 Neil Young Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
42%
141 Red Hot Chili Peppers Alternative Rock, Funk Rock, Pop Rock
42%
47 The Cure Gothic Rock, Post-Punk
42%
51 Blur Britpop, Alternative Rock
41%
65 Daft Punk Electronic, House
41%
79 Ramones Punk Rock
41%
173 Rihanna R&B, Dance Pop, Pop Rap
39%
66 Simon and Garfunkel Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
39%
101 The Jam New Wave, Punk Rock
39%
37 James Brown Funk, Soul
38%
88 Ray Charles R&B, Soul
38%
11 R.E.M Jangle Pop, Alternative Rock
38%
159 Janis Joplin Blues Rock
37%
190 Van Halen Hard Rock
37%
117 Depeche Mode Synthpop
36%
44 Beastie Boys Hip Hop, Rap Rock
35%
133 Coldplay Britpop, Pop Rock
35%
28 The Smiths Jangle Pop, Post-Punk
34%
146 Buddy Holly & The Crickets Rockabilly, Rock & Roll
33%
61 Creedence Clearwater Revival Country Rock, Folk Rock
33%
32 Kendrick Lamar West Coast Hip Hop
32%
17 The Velvet Underground Pop Rock, Art Rock
32%
154 Cream Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
31%
153 Tom Petty Heartland Rock, Pop Rock
31%
108 Blondie New Wave, Pop Rock
30%
152 Deep Purple Hard Rock
30%
45 Joni Mitchell Folk, Singer/Songwriter
30%
180 Rod Stewart Soft Rock, Pop Rock
30%
149 Run-D.M.C Hardcore Hip Hop
30%
72 Joy Division Post-Punk
29%
31 Talking Heads New Wave, Post-Punk
29%
177 The Supremes Pop Soul, Motown
29%
142 Little Richard Rock & Roll, R&B
27%
75 Otis Redding Soul
27%
64 Outkast Southern Hip Hop
27%
130 Sam Cooke Soul
27%
147 The Temptations Psychedelic Soul
27%
30 Van Morrison Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
27%
92 Arctic Monkeys Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
26%
185 Hank Williams Country
26%
55 Lou Reed Art Rock, Glam Rock
26%
160 Nine Inch Nails Industrial Rock, Alternative Rock
26%
39 John Coltrane Jazz
25%
172 Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Jazz
24%
136 Lana Del Ray Art Pop, Chamber Pop
24%
76 New Order New Wave, Electronic Dance
24%
42 Public Enemy Hardcore Hip Hop
24%
107 The Strokes Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
24%
23 Elvis Costello Pop Rock, New Wave
22%
91 Kate Bush Art Pop
22%
100 Funkadelic/Parliament Funk Rock
21%
186 King Crimson Art Rock, Progressive Rock
21%
52 Kraftwerk Electronic, Synthpop
21%
123 Peter Gabriel Pop Rock, Art Rock
21%
115 Pulp Britpop, Art Rock
20%
151 T. Rex Glam Rock
20%
35 Björk Art Pop, Electronic
19%
119 Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention Experimental Rock, Art Rock
19%
134 Grateful Dead Country Rock, Psychedelic Rock
19%
53 Leonard Cohen Folk, Singer/Songwriter
19%
145 Missy Elliott Pop Rap, Hip Hop
19%
54 Pixies Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
19%
89 Steely Dan Jazz Rock, Yacht Rock
19%
63 The Band Roots Rock, Folk Rock
19%
43 The Byrds Pop Rock, Folk Rock
19%
62 Duke Ellington Jazz, Big Band
18%
120 Smashing Pumpkins Alternative Rock
18%
167 Weezer Power Pop, Alternative Rock
18%
116 A Tribe Called Quest Jazz Rap
17%
131 Billie Holiday Vocal Jazz
17%
199 Jefferson Airplane Psychedelic Rock
17%
170 Muddy Waters Blues
17%
110 My Bloody Valentine Shoegaze
17%
78 The White Stripes Alternative Rock, Garage Rock Revival
17%
87 Massive Attack Trip Hop
16%
118 Pet Shop Boys Synthpop, Dance Pop
16%
58 Roxy Music Art Rock, Glam Rock
16%
98 Sufjan Stevens Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
16%
81 The Stooges Garage Rock, Hard Rock
16%
178 Pretenders New Wave, Pop Rock
15%
121 Thelonious Monk Jazz, Bebop
15%
46 Beck Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
14%
155 Can Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock
14%
69 Frank Ocean R&B, Pop Rap
14%
95 Portishead Trip Hop
14%
57 Sonic Youth Alternative Rock, Noise Rock
14%
38 Tom Waits Singer/Songwriter
14%
182 Dusty Springfield Pop Soul
13%
71 Sly and The Family Stone Funk, Soul
13%
33 Arcade Fire Indie Rock, Post-Punk Revival
12%
196 Fiona Apple Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
12%
50 LCD Soundsystem Dance Punk, Alternative Dance
12%
176 Queens of The Stone Age Alternative Rock, Stoner Rock
12%
144 Tame Impala Psychedelic Pop
12%
166 The Stone Roses Jangle Pop, Indie Rock
12%
139 Aphex Twin Ambient, IDM
11%
126 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Folk Rock
11%
25 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
11%
158 The Specials Two-Tone (Ska/Punk Rock)
11%
82 Brian Eno Art Rock, Ambient
9%
93 Charles Mingus Jazz
9%
193 Charlie Parker Jazz
9%
143 Curtis Mayfield Funk, Soul
9%
163 De La Soul East Coast Hip Hop
9%
40 PJ Harvey Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
9%
181 Television Art Punk
9%
194 Jeff Buckley Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
8%
97 Pavement Indie Rock
8%
74 Wilco Alternative Country, Alternative Rock
8%
192 D'Angelo Neo-Soul
7%
198 Love Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
7%
109 The Flaming Lips Indie Rock, Psychedelic Pop
7%
168 The Replacements Power Pop, Alternative Rock
7%
157 Big Star Power Pop
6%
191 Herbie Hancock Jazz
6%
114 M.I.A UK Hip Hop, Dance Pop
6%
174 St. Vincent Art Pop, Indie Pop
6%
103 Bon Iver Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
5%
183 XTC New Wave, Pop Rock
5%
132 Belle and Sebastian Chamber Pop, Indie Pop
4%
175 Grimes Synthpop
4%
129 Hüsker Dü Hardcore Punk, Alternative Rock
4%
156 Ornette Coleman Jazz
4%
140 Robyn House, Electropop, Dance
4%
165 Sigur Rós Post-Rock
4%
84 Vampire Weekend Indie Pop/Rock
4%
187 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
4%
127 Animal Collective Psychedelic Pop
3%
128 Captain Beefheart Art Rock, Experimental Rock
3%
189 FKA Twigs R&B, Art Pop
3%
124 Randy Newman Baroque Pop, Singer/Songwriter
3%
162 The Jesus and Mary Chain Post-Punk, Noise Pop
3%
105 The National Post-Punk Revival
3%
122 Primal Scream Alternative Dance, Psychedelic
2%
150 Serge Gainsbourg Baroque Pop, French Pop
2%
197 Solange R&B, Neo-soul
2%
137 The Chemical Brothers Electronic, Psychedelic, House
2%
200 TV on the Radio Art Rock, Indie Rock
2%
188 Angel Olsen Folk, Singer/Songwriter
1%
169 Sleater-Kinney Indie Rock, Punk Rock
1%
179 Spoon Indie Rock
0%
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