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