Top 5 Albums by Popular
Rock Artists A‑C

Criteria: Top 5 Albums by popular Rock Artists are ranked based on Popularity, Influence, and Musical Impact. The lists include Studio and Live albums from every rock sub-genre including Metal, Rap, Prog, Indie, Alternative, Dance, and more.
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2 Live Crew
1. As Nasty as They Wanna Be
2. Is What We Are
3. Move Somethin'
4. Banned in the U.S.A.
5. Sports Weekend (As Nasty as They Wanna Be Part II)

3 Doors Down
1. The Better Life
2. Away from the Sun
3. Seventeen Days
4. 3 Doors Down
5. Time of My Life
5th Dimension, The
1. The Age of Aquarius
2. Up, Up and Away
3. Portrait
4. Stoned Soul Picnic
5. Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes
10cc
1. The Original Soundtrack
2. Sheet Music
3. Deceptive Bends
4. How Dare You!
5. 10cc
50 Cent
1. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2. The Massacre
3. Curtis
4. Before I Self Destruct
5. Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win
311
1. 311
2. Transistor
3. From Chaos
4. Grassroots
5. Soundsystem
10,000 Maniacs
1. In My Tribe
2. Tigerlily
3. MTV Unplugged
4. Our Time in Eden
5. Blind Man's Zoo
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A Tribe Called Quest
1. The Low End Theory
2. Midnight Marauders
3. We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
4. People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
5. Beats, Rhymes and Life
ABBA
1. Arrival
2. The Album
3. Super Trouper
4. ABBA
5. Voulez-Vous
ABC
1. The Lexicon of Love
2. How to Be a... Zillionaire!
3. Alphabet City
4. Beauty Stab
5. Traffic
AC/DC
1. Back In Black
2. Highway to Hell
3. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
4. Let There Be Rock
5. High Voltage
Adele
1. 21
2. 25
3. 30
4. 19
5. Live at Royal Albert Hall
Aerosmith
1. Toys in the Attic
2. Pump
3. Rocks
4. Get A Grip
5. Permanent Vacation
AFI
1. Sing the Sorrow
2. Decemberunderground
3. The Art of Drowning
4. Black Sails in the Sunset
5. Crash Love
Air
1. Moon Safari
2. Talkie Walkie
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. 10 000 Hertz Legend
5. Pocket Symphony
Al Green
1. Call Me
2. I'm Still in Love with You
3. Gets Next to You
4. Let's Stay Together
5. Explores Your Mind
Alan Parsons Project
1. Eye in the Sky
2. I Robot
3. The Turn of a Friendly Card
4. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
5. Eve
Alanis Morissette
1. Jagged Little Pill
2. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
3. Under Rug Swept
4. MTV Unplugged
5. So-Called Chaos
Alice Cooper
1. Billion Dollar Babies
2. Love It to Death
3. Killer
4. School's Out
5. Welcome To My Nightmare
Alice In Chains
1. Dirt
2. Jar Of Files
3. Facelift
4. Alice in Chains
5. MTV Unplugged
Alicia Keys
1. Songs in A Minor
2. The Diary of Alicia Keys
3. As I Am
4. The Element of Freedom
5. Girl on Fire
Allman Brothers Band
1. At Fillmore East
2. Eat a Peach
3. Brothers & Sisters
4. Idlewild South
5. The Allman Brothers Band
America
1. America
2. Homecoming
3. Holiday
4. Hearts
5. Hat Trick
Animal Collective
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Feels
3. Strawberry Jam
4. Sung Tongs
5. Here Comes the Indian
Animals
1. Animalization
2. Animalism
3. The Animals
4. Animal Tracks
5. Winds of Change
Anita Baker
1. Rapture
2. Giving You the Best That I Got
3. Rhythm of Love
4. Compositions
5. The Songstress
Annie Lennox
1. Diva
2. Medusa
3. Bare
4. Songs of Mass Destruction
5. Nostalgia
Anthrax
1. Among the Living
2. Spreading the Disease
3. Persistence of Time
4. Sound of White Noise
5. State of Euphoria
Aphex Twin
1. Selected Ambient Works 85-92
2. Richard D. James Album
3. Selected Ambient Works Volume II
4. Syro
5. drukqs
Arcade Fire
1. Funeral
2. The Suburbs
3. Neon Bible
4. Reflektor
5. Everything Now
Arctic Monkeys
1. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2. AM
3. Favourite Worst Nightmare
4. Humbug
5. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Aretha Franklin
1. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
2. Lady Soul
3. Young, Gifted, & Black
4. Aretha Now
5. Amazing Grace
Ariana Grande
1. Thank U, Next
2. Sweetener
3. My Everything
4. Dangerous Woman
5. Yours Truly
Ashanti
1. Ashanti
2. Chapter II
3. Concrete Rose
4. The Declaration
5. Braveheart
The Association
1. And Then... Along Comes the Association
2. Insight Out
3. Birthday
4. Renaissance
5. The Association
Average White Band
1. AWB
2. Cut The Cake
3. Soul Searching
4. Benny And Us (with Ben E. King)
5. Warmer Communication
Avril Lavigne
1. Let Go
2. Under My Skin
3. The Best Damn Thing
4. Goodbye Lullaby
5. Avril Lavigne
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B-52's
1. The B-52's
2. Cosmic Thing
3. Wild Planet
4. Whammy!
5. Good Stuff
Babyface
1. Tender Lover
2. For The Cool In You
3. The Day
4. Grown & Sexy
5. Face2Face
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
1. Not Fragile
2. Bachman-Turner Overdrive II
3. Four Wheel Drive
4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive [1973]
5. Head On
Backstreet Boys
1. Millennium
2. Backstreet Boys
3. Backstreet's Back
4. Black & Blue
5. Never Gone
Bad Company
1. Bad Company
2. Straight Shooter
3. Desolation Angels
4. Run With The Pack
5. Burnin' Sky
Bad Religion
1. No Control
2. Suffer
3. Stranger Than Fiction
4. Against the Grain
5. Recipe for Hate
Badly Drawn Boy
1. The Hour of Bewilderbeast
2. About a Boy
3. Have You Fed the Fish?
4. One Plus One Is One
5. Banana Skin Shoes
Band
1. The Band
2. Music from Big Pink
3. Rock of Ages
4. Stage Fright
5. The Last Waltz
Band Of Horses
1. Everything All the Time
2. Cease to Begin
3. Infinite Arms
4. Mirage Rock
5. Why Are You OK
Barclay James Harvest
1. Gone to Earth
2. Everyone Is Everybody Else
3. Once Again
4. Octoberon
5. Time Honoured Ghosts
Barenaked Ladies
1. Stunt
2. Gordon
3. Rock Spectacle
4. Maroon
5. Born on a Pirate Ship
Barry White
1. Can't Get Enough
2. Barry White Sings For Someone You Love
3. Stone Gon'
4. The Icon Is Love
5. I've Got So Much To Give
Bay City Rollers
1. Rollin'
2. Dedication
3. Wouldn't You Like It/Rock n' Roll Love Letter
4. Once upon a Star
5. It's a Game
Beach Boys
1. Pet Sounds
2. The Beach Boys Today!
3. Surfin' U.S.A.
4. Surf's Up
5. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Beastie Boys
1. Licensed To Ill
2. Paul's Boutique
3. Ill Communication
4. Check Your Head
5. Hello Nasty
Beatles
1. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. Abbey Road
5. The Beatles (White Album)
Beck
1. Odelay
2. Mellow Gold
3. Sea Change
4. Mutations
5. Guero
Bee Gees
1. Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
2. Spirits Having Flown
3. Main Course
4. Odessa
5. Children Of The World
Belle And Sebastian
1. If You're Feeling Sinister
2. The Boy With the Arab Strap
3. The Life Pursuit
4. Tigermilk
5. Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Ben Folds
1. Whatever and Ever Amen
2. Ben Folds Five
3. Rockin' the Suburbs
4. Songs for Silverman
5. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Beyoncé
1. Lemonade
2. Beyoncé
3. Renaissance
4. Dangerously in Love
5. B'Day
Bill Withers
1. Still Bill
2. Just as I Am
3. Menagerie
4. Live at Carnegie Hall
5. +'Justments
Billy Bragg
1. Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
2. Mermaid Avenue [with Wilco]
3. Don't Try This at Home
4. Workers Playtime
5. Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
Billy Idol/Generation X
1. Rebel Yell
2. Billy Idol
3. Whiplash Smile
4. Generation X
5. Charmed Life
Billy Joel
1. The Stranger
2. 52nd Street
3. An Innocent Man
4. Glass Houses
5. Piano Man
Björk
1. Debut
2. Homogenic
3. Post
4. Vespertine
5. Medulla
Black Crowes
1. Shake Your Money Maker
2. The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
3. Amorica
4. Warpaint
5. By Your Side
Black Eyed Peas
1. Elephunk
2. Monkey Business
3. The E.N.D.
4. The Beginning
5. Behind the Front
Black Keys
1. Brothers
2. El Camino
3. Rubber Factory
4. Attack and Release
5. Thickfreakness
Black Sabbath
1. Paranoid
2. Black Sabbath
3. Master of Reality
4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5. Heaven and Hell
Blink-182
1. Enema of the State
2. Take off Your Pants and Jacket
3. blink-182
4. Dude Ranch
5. Neighborhoods
Blondie
1. Parallel Lines
2. Autoamerican
3. Blondie
4. Eat To The Beat
5. Plastic Letters
Blood, Sweat & Tears
1. Blood, Sweat & Tears
2. Child Is Father to the Man
3. Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
4. B, S & T 4
5. New Blood
Blue Cheer
1. Vincebus Eruptum
2. Outsideinside
3. New! Improved!
4. Blue Cheer
5. The Original Human Being
Blue Öyster Cult
1. Agents of Fortune
2. Secret Treaties
3. Fire of Unknown Origin
4. Tyranny and Mutilation
5. Blue Öyster Cult
Blues Traveler
1. Four
2. Blues Traveler
3. Travelers & Thieves
4. Straight On till Morning
5. Live from the Fall
Blur
1. Parklife
2. Blur
3. Modern Life Is Rubbish
4. The Great Escape
5. 13
Bo Diddley
1. Bo Diddley
2. Go Bo Diddley
3. Have Guitar Will Travel
4. Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger
5. The Black Gladiator
Bob Dylan
1. Highway 61 Revisited
2. Blonde on Blonde
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. Blood on the Tracks
5. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
1. Exodus
2. Catch A Fire
3. Burnin'
4. Natty Dread
5. Rastaman Vibration
Bob Seger
1. Night Moves
2. Stranger In Town
3. Against The Wind
4. Live Bullet
5. Like A Rock
Bobby Womack
1. Understanding
2. Facts Of Life
3. Lookin' For A Love Again
4. Communication
5. The Poet
Bon Jovi
1. Slippery When Wet
2. New Jersey
3. Keep the Faith
4. Crush
5. Bon Jovi
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
1. E. 1999 Eternal
2. Creepin on ah Come Up
3. The Art of War
4. Strength & Loyalty
5. BTNHResurrection
Bonnie Raitt
1. Nick of Time
2. Luck of the Draw
3. Give It Up
4. Longing In Their Hearts
5. Sweet Forgiveness
Boogie Down Productions
1. Criminal Minded
2. By All Means Necessary
3. Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop
4. KRS-One
5. I Got Next
Booker T & MG's
1. Hip-Hug Her
2. Green Onions
3. Melting Pot
4. McLemore Avenue
5. Uptight
Bootsy's Rubber Band/Bootsy Collins
1. Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
2. Ah... the Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
3. Bootsy? Player of the Year
4. This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N
5. The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away
Boston
1. Boston
2. Don't Look Back
3. Third Stage
4. Walk On
5. Corporate America
Boyz II Men
1. II
2. Cooleyhighharmony
3. Christmas Interpretations
4 Evolution
5 Nathan Michael Shawn Wayna
Boz Scaggs
1. Silk Degrees
2. Boz Scaggs
3. Middle Man
4. Down Two Then Left
5. Slow Dancer
Brandy
1. Never Say Never
2. Brandy
3. Afrodisiac
4. Full Moon
5. Two Eleven
Bread
1. Baby I'm-A Want You
2. Bread
3. Guitar Man
4. On the Waters
5. Manna
Brian Eno
1. Another Green World
2. Here Come the Warm Jets
3. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
4. Before and After Science
5. Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian McKnight
1. Back at One
2. Brian McKnight
3. Anytime
4. Superhero
5. I Remember You
Brian Wilson
1. SMiLE
2. Brian Wilson
3. Live At The Roxy
4. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
5. Imagination
Bright Eyes
1. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2. Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
3. Cassadaga
4. Fevers and Mirrors
5. Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Britney Spears
1. ...Baby One More Time
2. Blackout
3. Oops!...I Did It Again
4. In the Zone
5. Britney
Bruce Springsteen
1. Born to Run
2. Born in the U.S.A.
3. The River
4. Darkness on the Edge of Town
5. Nebraska
Bryan Adams
1. Reckless
2. Waking Up the Neighbours
3. Cuts Like a Knife
4. 18 Til I Die
5. Into the Fire
Bryan Ferry
1. Boys and Girls
2. These Foolish Things
3. Bête Noire
4. Let's Stick Together
5. In Your Mind
Buddy Holly
1. The Chirping Crickets
2. Buddy Holly
3. Reminiscing
4. For The First Time Anywhere
5. Holly in The Hills
Busta Rhymes
1. The Coming
2. When Distaster Strikes...
3. E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
4. Genesis
5. The Big Bang
Byrds
1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Sweetheart of the Rodeo
3. Younger Than Yesterday
4. Fifth Dimension
5. Turn! Turn! Turn!
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Camel
1. The Snow Goose
2. Mirage
3. Moonmadness
4. Rain Dances
5. Camel
Cameo
1. Word Up
2. Cameosis
3. Cardiac Arrest
4. She's Strange
5. Single Life
Cam'ron / The Diplomats
1. Come Home with Me
2. Purple Haze
3. Diplomatic Immunity
4. Killa Season
5. Confessions of Fire
Can
1. Tago Mago
2. Ege Bamyasi
3. Future Days
4. Monster Movie
5. Soon Over Babaluma
Canned Heat
1. Boogie with Canned Heat
2. Living the Blues
3. Future Blues
4. Canned Heat
5. Hallelujah
Captain Beefheart
1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Safe as Milk
3. Lick My Decals Off, Baby
4. Doc at the Radar Station
5. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Carla Thomas
1. King & Queen (with Otis Redding)
2. Carla
3. Comfort Me
4. The Queen Alone
5. Memphis Queen
Carly Simon
1. No Secrets
2. Coming Around Again
3. Anticipation
4. Boys in the Trees
5. Hotcakes
Carole King
1. Tapestry
2. Music
3. Thoroughbred
4. Wrap Around Joy
5. Really Rosie
Cars
1. The Cars
2. Heartbeat City
3. Candy-O
4. Shake It Up
5. Panorama
Cat Power
1. You Are Free
2. The Greatest
3. Moon Pix
4. What Would the Community Think
5. The Covers Record
Cat Stevens
1. Tea For the Tillerman
2. Teaser and the Firecat
3. Catch Bull at Four
4. Mona Bone Jakon
5. Buddha and the Chocolate Box
Charlatans
1. Some Friendly
2. Tellin' Stories
3. The Charlatans
4. Between 10th and 11th
5. Us and Us Only
Charlie Daniels Band
1. Fire on the Mountain
2. Million Mile Reflections
3. Saddle Tramp
4. Full Moon
5. Simple Man
Cheap Trick
1. Cheap Trick At Budokan
2. In Color
3. Heaven Tonight
4. Dream Police
5. Cheap Trick
Chemical Brothers
1. Dig Your Own Hole
2. Exit Planet Dust
3. Surrender
4. Come with Us
5. Push the Button
Cher
1. Believe
2. Heart of Stone
3. Cher
4. Look at Us [Sonny & Cher]
5. Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
Chic
1. C'est Chic
2. Risque
3. Chic
4. Real People
5. Take It Off
Chicago
1. Chicago Transit Authority
2. Chicago V
3. Chicago II
4. Chicago VI
5. Chicago 17
Chi-Lites
1. A Lonely Man
2. (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People
3. Give It Away
4. Toby
5. The Chi-Lites
Chris Brown
1. Exclusive
2. Chris Brown
3. F.A.M.E.
4. X
5. Fortune
Chris DeBurgh
1. Into the Light
2. The Getaway
3. Man on the Line
4. Spanish Train and Other Stories
5. Flying Colours
Chris Isaak
1. Heart Shaped World
2. Forever Blue
3. Chris Isaak
4. Silvertone
5. San Francisco Days
Chris Rea
1. The Road to Hell
2. Auberge
3. On the Beach
4. Dancing with Strangers
5. Shamrock Diaries
Christina Aguilera
1. Christina Aguilera
2. Back to Basics
3. Stripped
4. Bionic
5. Liberation
Chuck Berry
1. Chuck Berry Is On Top
2. After School Session
3. One Dozen Berrys
4. St. Louis To Liverpool
5. Rockin' At The Hops
Ciara
1. Goodies
2. The Evolution
3. Ciara
4. Fantasy Ride
5. Basic Instinct
Clarence Carter
1. Patches
2. This Is Clarence Carter
3. Testifyin'
4. The Dynamic Clarence Carter
5. Let's Burn
Clash
1. London Calling
2. The Clash
3. Combat Rock
4. Sandinista!
5. Give 'Em Enough Rope
Cliff Richard
1. I'm Nearly Famous
2. Rock'n'Roll Juvenile / We Don't Talk Anymore
3. From A Distance: The Event
4. Cliff
5. I'm No Hero
Cocteau Twins
1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Treasure
3. Blue Bell Knoll
4. Victorialand
5. Head Over Heels
Coldplay
1. A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2. Parachutes
3. Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
4. X&Y
5. Mylo Xyloto
Collective Soul
1. Collective Soul
2. Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid
3. Dosage
4. Disciplined Breakdown
5. Youth
Commodores
1. Commodores
2. Natural High
3. Caught In The Act
4. Commodores Live!
5. Hot On The Tracks
Common
1. Like Water for Chocolate
2. Be
3. Resurrection
4. Finding Forever
5. One Day It'll All Make Sense
Corrs, The
1. Talk on Corners
2. Forgiven, Not Forgotten
3. In Blue
4. Unplugged
5. Borrowed Heaven
Counting Crows
1. August and Everything After
2. Recovering the Satellites
3. This Desert Life
4. Hard Candy
5. Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Country Joe & Fish
1. Electric Music For The Body & Mind
2. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die
3. Together
4. CJ Fish
5. Here We Are Again
The Cranberries
1. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
2. No Need to Argue
3. To the Faithful Departed
4. Bury the Hatchet
5. In the End
Cream
1. Disraeli Gears
2. Wheels of Fire
3. Fresh Cream
4. Goodbye
5. Live Cream
CCR
1. Cosmo's Factory
2. Green River
3. Willie and the Poor Boys
4. Bayou Country
5. Pendulum
CSN&Y
1. Déjà Vu
2. Crosby, Stills & Nash
3. Four Way Street
4. CSN
5. Daylight Again
Crowded House
1. Crowded House
2. Woodface
3. True Colours (Split Enz)
4. Temple of Low Men
5. Together Alone
Cult,The
1. Electric
2. Love
3. Sonic Temple
4. Dreamtime
5. Choice of Weapon
Cure
1. Disintegration
2. The Head On The Door
3. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
4. Wish
5. Pornography
Curtis Mayfield
1. Superfly
2. Curtis
3. Back To The World
4. Curtis Live
5. There's No Place Like America Today
Cyndi Lauper
1. She's So Unusual
2. True Colors
3. A Night to Remember
4. Bring Ya to the Brink
5. Hat Full of Stars
Cypress Hill
1. Cypress Hill
2. Black Sunday
3. Skull & Bones
4. Cypress Hill III (Temples Of Boom)
5. Stoned Raiders








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