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How about?

240. Massive Attack
241. Lou Reed
242. MC5
243. Hüsker Dü
244. Jackson Browne
245. Pet Shop Boys
246. Captain Beefheart
247. Phil Collins
248. Sade
249. Ariana Grande
250. Nicki Minaj
251. Hall & Oates
252. Boyz II Men
253. Alanis Morissette
254. Future
255. War
256. Chaka Khan/Rufus
257. Eurythmics
258. Salt-N-Pepa
259. Peter Gabriel
260. The Righteous Brothers
261. Jethro Tull
262. Soundgarden
263. Crystals
264. George Harrison
265. Electric Light Orchestra
266. New York Dolls
267. The (Young) Rascals
268. T.I.
269. Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps
270. The Marvelettes
271. Joe Tex
272. The Prodigy
273. Johnny Ace
274. Lloyd Price
275. Cher
276. R. Kelly
277. The Lovin' Spoonful 
278. The Spinners
279. Barry White
280. Weezer
281. The Shadows
282. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
283. Erykah Badu
284. Gary Numan/Tubeway Army
285. Toots & the Maytals
286. Television
287. Todd Rundgren('s Utopia)
288. 50 Cent
289. Boston
290. Cheap Trick
291. Buffalo Springfield
292. Justin Bieber
293. Journey
294. John Mellencamp
295. ZZ Top
296. The Moonglows
297. Duane Eddy
298. Alice in Chains
299. Heart
300. Bryan Adams
301. Tina Turner
302. Patti LaBelle/Labelle
303. Steve Miller Band
304. The Dells
305. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
306. PJ Harvey
307. Tyler, the Creator
308. INXS
309. The Doobie Brothers
310. Moby
311. The Chemical Brothers
312. Jan & Dean
313. Boogie Down Productions
314. The B-52's
315. Randy Newman
316. Ritchie Valens
317. Dick Dale & the Del-Tones
318. No Doubt
319. Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine
320. Anita Baker
321. Mary Wells
322. Jeff Buckley
323. Tori Amos
324. Blue Öyster Cult
325. Tracy Chapman
326. Ice-T/Body Count
327. Shirley & Lee
328. The Hollies
329. Judas Priest
330. Giorgio Moroder
331. Fugazi
332. Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew
333. Pavement
334. Queen Latifah
335. Screamin' Jay Hawkins
336. Dead Kennedys
337. Black Flag
338. Laura Nyro
339. X
340. Foreigner
341. System of a Down
342. Peter Frampton
343. Carly Simon
344. The Roots
345. The Pointer Sisters
346. Jack Scott
347. Larry Williams
348. Kurtis Blow
349. The Fall
350. Warren Zevon
351. Megadeth
352. Kansas
353. Robbie Williams
354. UB40
355. Aphex Twin
356. Grand Funk Railroad
357. Dave Matthews Band
358. Ohio Players
359. Huey Lewis & the News
360. Bachman-Turner Overdrive
361. The Chiffons
362. Big Mama Thornton
363. Jimmy Buffett
364. Bonnie Raitt
365. Annie Lennox
366. Sarah McLachlan
367. Yellow Magic Orchestra
368. Melissa Etheridge
369. Rickie Lee Jones
370. Joan Armatrading

Think we gotta add the criteria to the first post

Criteria: influence, popularity, critical & peer acclaim, cultural impact, in descending order of importance.

Otherwise it would look like me, MP & Fido just listing off faves.

Tim wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 6:00 pm Next:

Rick James
Scorpions
Slayer
Stylistics
T. Rex
Wire
Linda Ronstadt
Luther Vandross

1. Linda Ronstadt
2. Luther Vandross
3. Rick James
4. T. Rex
5. Scorpions
6. Slayer
7. Stylistics
8. Wire

Ronstadt a bit hard to characterize or rank due to her versatility, with her doing country, jazz, Latin, etc. but among the greatest vocalists to sing rock during the 1970s and one of the most prominient "rock chicks" image wise, overall highly succesful and beloved figure in American popular music. Vandross highly popular since the 1980s, among the greatest r&b vocalists as well as large influence on contemporary r&b as a whole. Rick James one of the biggest names in contemporary funk with Street Song and especially "Super Freak" large influence in hip-hop, a bit of household name/image culturally. T. Rex, Marc Bolan one of glam rock's greatest heroes, guitar or otherwise, huge influence in punk/alt lineage, in Britain especially in addition to high popularity in the UK. Scorpions still playing their farewell tour somewhere. Seriously though, large popularity worldwide, influential on glam metal with their later work, on dual lead guitars in metal with earlier work. Slayer huge influence & surprisingly high acclaim with their pioneering thrash metal album run. Stylistics one of premier philly soul brain childs of thom bell, Wire one of the codifiers of post-punk in the late 1970s, pink flag widely viewed as a masterpiece.

ManPerson wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 1:57 pm

Tim wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 12:03 pm

To re-cap what we got after adding Chris F.'s picks. Feels sorta sexist with so many female artists near the bottom.

I get the feeling Chris F intentionally tried to add extra female artists so I don't feel too bad about this.

I was mostly tongue-in-cheek here tbh. It appears to be true though that Chris F had a soft spot for female artists in general.