Planet Rock Listeners Vote for their Best Albums
Over 12,000 Music Fans Have Chosen their Favourite Guitar Music
Sep 2, 2009
Planet Rock listeners have chosen their favourite album in their thousands, and the list provides some surprises amongst the musical treasure trove that over forty years of heavy rock has produced. The full results are available from this link: The Planet Rock Listeners' Top Forty Album Chart.
Exclusive Chart of the Most Successful Rock Bands in the Planet Rock Top 40 Album List
The top ten chart was released before the top forty and made it look like Pink Floyd were dominating, as the band topped the chart and had two other albums in the top ten.
However, the top forty chart shows that those three albums in the top ten were Pink Floyd's only entries into the top forty, so another band may have been more successful if the other thirty albums in the top forty are included in the equation.
This theory was confirmed when all forty albums in the top forty chart were included.
Of course, a top one-hundred chart may provide different results again, but going on the top forty, with forty points given for first position (Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon) down to one point for fortieth (Pearl Jam: Ten), making 820 points in total, this is the Planet Rock listeners' top forty albums' most successful bands top ten chart.
1. Led Zeppelin 139 (five entries gaining: 39, 37, 35, 20 and 8 points)
2. Pink Floyd 107 (three entries: 40, 34 and 33)
3. Deep Purple 77 (three entries: 29, 25 and 23)
4. AC/DC 62 (two entries: 38 and 24)
5. Rush 55 (two entries: 28 and 27)
6. Metallica 40 (two entries: 26 and 14)
7. Guns N' Roses 36 (one entry: 36)
8. Black Sabbath 32 (four entries: 13, 10, 6 and 3)
8. Meatloaf 32 (one entry: 32)
10. The Who 31 (one entry: 31)
The rest are just single entries, and follow in the order of the top 40 albums.
Brief Analysis of the Most Popular Rock Bands Chart
Although Pink Floyd had the number one album and three in the top ten, it was Led Zeppelin who was the most successful overall, with their five entries in the top forty amassing the most points.
Black Sabbath had four albums in the top forty, three from the Ozzy Osbourne era and one when Ronnie Jamed Dio was the lead singer, but Sabbath's highest entry was down at #28, so the entries only scored low points and the band finished in joint eighth position along with Meatloaf, who only had one entry.
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