Top 100 Artist Countdown
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