This past weekend, we celebrated Memorial Day with our new  Top 100 Artist Countdown!

These artists were voted on by the DJs at WTSQ – a multi-stage process to carefully make sure all DJs had the time to be included in the vote, artists were rated by a point system to narrow them down. and in the end, here is where we ended up for the final WTSQ Top 100 Artist list!

1          The Beatles
2          Prince
3          The Beastie Boys
4          David Bowie
5          The Rolling Stones
6          Led Zeppelin
7          The Clash / Joe Strummer
8          The Cure
9          Jimi Hendrix
10       R.E.M.
11       Sonic Youth
12       Bob Marley & The Wailers AND The Grateful Dead (TIE)
13       n/a (12 was a tie)
14       Talking Heads / David Byrne
15       Elton John
16       Miles Davis
17       Duran Duran
18       INXS
19       Radiohead
20       Nirvana
21       Hank Williams (Sr.)
22       The Velvet Underground
23       Queen
24       Dolly Parton
25       Bob Dylan
26       Parliament / Funkadelic
27       Stooges / Iggy Pop
28       Depeche Mode
29       Garbage
30       Jack White / White Stripes / Dead Weather
31       Beck
32       Neil Young
33       Daft Punk
34       Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Mad Season, QOTSA, etc.)
35       The Allman Brothers Band
36       New Order / Joy Division
37       Pearl Jam
38       Guided by Voices
39       The Replacements
40       Nine Inch Nails
41       Jane’s Addiction
42       Sade
43       The Smashing Pumpkins
44       Foo Fighters
45       Pink Floyd
46       Pixies
47       Rush
48       Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
49       James Brown
50       Bad Brains
51       Ramones
52       Portishead
53       Michael Jackson
54       Ray Charles
55       Stevie Wonder
56       The Who
57       Paul McCartney
58       Captain Beefheart
59       Siouxsie & The Banshees
60       The Cars
61       Steve Earle
62       Dinosaur Jr.
63       The Police / Sting
64       Husker Du
65       Johnny Cash
66       Hall and Oates
67       Aretha Franklin
68       John Prine
69       A Tribe Called Quest
70       Lee “Scratch” Perry
71       Tyler Childers
72       Manic Street Preachers
73       Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
74       Boston
75       Run DMC
76       Primal Scream
77       PJ Harvey
78       Mazzy Star
79       Patti Smith
80       Death Cab for Cutie
81       Aphex Twin
82       Alanis Morissette
83       The Beths
84       Fontaines DC
85       Chuck Berry
86       De La Soul
87       Madonna
88       Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
89       Hazel Dickens
90       Duke Ellington
91       Frank Sinatra
92       Igor Stravinsky
93       Kraftwerk
94       The Notorius B.I.G.
95       Willie Nelson
96       Marvin Gaye
97       Bruce Springsteen
98       My Bloody Valentine
99       Tears for Fears
100     The Damned