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