Acclaimed Music - The Top 100 Artists of the 50s

The Top 100 Artists of the 50s


1 Elvis Presley
2 Miles Davis
3 Chuck Berry
4 Buddy Holly & The Crickets
5 Frank Sinatra
6 Little Richard
7 Thelonious Monk
8 Ray Charles
9 Sonny Rollins
10 Ella Fitzgerald
11 The Everly Brothers
12 Bo Diddley
13 Charles Mingus
14 Jerry Lee Lewis
15 Fats Domino
16 Muddy Waters
17 Johnny Cash
18 John Coltrane
19 Count Basie
20 Duke Ellington
21 Hank Williams
22 Bill Haley and His Comets
23 Dizzy Gillespie
24 Art Blakey
25 Dave Brubeck
26 Eddie Cochran
27 Big Joe Turner
28 Charlie Parker
29 Howlin' Wolf
30 Ritchie Valens
31 The Coasters
32 Ornette Coleman
33 Bud Powell
34 The Platters
35 Gene Vincent
36 Sarah Vaughan
37 Carl Perkins
38 Clifford Brown
39 The Drifters
40 Lloyd Price
41 The Isley Brothers
42 Johnny Burnette
43 Jackie Wilson
44 Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
45 Louis Armstrong
46 Modern Jazz Quartet
47 James Brown
48 Benny Goodman
49 The Flamingos
50 Dion
51 The Five Satins
52 Erroll Garner
53 Sam Cooke
54 Harry Belafonte
55 Cannonball Adderley
56 Little Willie John
57 Billie Holiday
58 Marty Robbins
59 Lester Young
60 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
61 Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
62 The Penguins
63 Jackie Brenston
64 Bobby Darin
65 Link Wray
66 Wilbert Harrison
67 Elmore James
68 "Tennessee" Ernie Ford
69 Horace Silver
70 Cliff Richard
71 Art Pepper
72 The Weavers
73 Max Roach
74 Nat King Cole
75 LaVern Baker
76 Gerry Mulligan
77 George Russell
78 Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
79 Bill Doggett
80 Les Paul & Mary Ford
81 The Orioles
82 Dinah Washington
83 Sun Ra
84 Anita O'Day
85 Chet Baker
86 Ray Price
87 Bill Evans
88 The Chords
89 Tito Puente
90 The Kingston Trio
91 Johnny Horton
92 Lefty Frizzell
93 The Champs
94 Duane Eddy
95 Mickey and Sylvia
96 The Clovers
97 Jimmy Smith
98 Danny and The Juniors
99 Kitty Wells
100 The Chantels