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2026 Superlative Artist Check-In

It has been a while since the last time I have updated any of the artist totals, but I just recently redid them. These stats are accurate as of the yet-unposted Zootopia 2 playlist expansion. Small stats: There are 8 artists with 9 songs, who need just one more to qualify! Right behind them there are 7 with 8 songs, 6 with 7 songs, and 5 with 6 (interesting coincidence that could easily be broken). Closer to the bottom, we have 13 artists with 5 songs, 15 with 4, 38 with 3, 70 with 2, and still with just one, we have 202. Now, here are the prize categories:

Qualifying (10+ songs)

DragonForce (10)

Weezer (10)

The Cure (11)

Seether (11)

Britney Spears (12)

Iron Maiden (12)

James Durbin (12)

Less than Jake (12)

R.E.M. (12)

Avenged Sevenfold (13)

Breaking Point (13)

Gentle Giant (13)

Megadeth (13)

Rise Against (13)

Sum 41 (13)

Five Iron Frenzy (14)

Kelly Clarkson (14)

Papa Roach (14)

System of a Down (14)

Weird Al Yankovic (14)

Bad Religion (15)

The Beatles (17)

Fall Out Boy (17)

Judas Priest (17)

Matchbox Twenty (17)

Paramore (17)

Bronze (20+ songs)

Vanessa Carlton (20)

Sonata Arctica (20)

3 Doors Down (25)

Simple Plan (27)

Silver (30+ songs)

P!nk (30)

Bowling for Soup (34)

Evanescence (34)

Green Day (36)

Hoobastank (37)

Good Charlotte (38)

Gold (40+ songs)

Avril Lavigne (42)

Platinum (60+ songs, no that is not a typo)

They Might Be Giants (64)

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Featured Artists of the Day: Artists with 1 song

  Featured Artists of the Day: Artists with 1 song

The 154 artists who currently have exactly one song

Spread over 5 playlists

A2: The Chosen One on Lost and Found

Spread over 3 playlists

Madness: Our House on Madness

Spread over 2 playlists

Freezepop: Do You Like Boys on Futurefuturefutureperfect

Kay Hanley: Follow Me on Sonic Heroes

Gnarls Barkley: Crazy on St. Elsewhere

Melissa Lefton: He Blinded Me with Science on Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius

Saliva: Black Sheep on a free sampler

The Firm: Star Trekkin’ on The Best of Dr. Demento

Death Cab for Cutie: I Will Follow You into the Dark on Plans

Tal Bachman: She’s so High on Tal Bachman

The Police: Every Breath You Take on Synchronicity

All That Remains: Chiron on Overcome

Beck: Loser on Mellow Gold

AC/DC: Shoot to Thrill on Back in Black

On one playlist only

Mendelssohn: The Wedding March on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Psychostick: Die… A LOT on Sandwich

Say Anything: Died a Jew on In Defense of the Genre

The Cranberries: I’m Still Remembering on To the Faithful Departed

Gorillaz: Last Living Souls on Demon Days

Dave Edmunds: Crawling from the Wreckage on Repeat When Necessary

Tears for Fears: Head Over Heels on the Best of Tears for Fears

10,000 Maniacs: Eat for Two on Blind Man’s Zoo

Modest Mouse: Interlude (Milo) on Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Ali Tabatabaee and Matty Lewis: His World on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Cheap Trick: Surrender on Heaven Tonight

Gunnar Nelson: Team Chaotix on Sonic Heroes

Keiko Utano: Sonic – You Can Do Anything on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Magna Fi: All Hail Shadow on Lost and Found

Pastiche: Sonic Boom on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Powerman 5000: Almost Dead on Lost and Found

Remix Factory: E.G.G.M.A.N. on Lost and Found

Runblebee: Sonic Speed Riders on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Steve Conte: Seven Rings in Hand on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Tahirih Walker: A New Venture on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Ted Poley: Race to Win on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

TJ Davis: Super Sonic Racing on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Zebrahead: His World on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog

No Secrets: Kids in America on Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius

Shawn Mullins: Beautiful Wreck on 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor

B-52’s: Hot Pants Explosion on Good Stuff

Butthole Surfers: Who Was in My Room Last Night on Independent Worm Saloon

Drist: Arterial Black on Orchids and Ammunition

Electric Skychurch: Dune (Prophecy Theme) on Sci-Fi Café

Franz Ferdinand: Auf Achse on Franz Ferdinand

JET: Cold Hard Bitch on Get Born

John Lennon: Imagine on Imagine

Motley Crue: Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) on Greatest Hits

Muse: Time Is Running Out on Absolution

Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight on Face Value

Roy Orbison: Oh, Pretty Woman on The Essential Roy Orbison

Rusted Root: Send Me on My Way on When I Woke

That Handsome Devil: Miss America on That Handsome Devil

Wednesday 13: Kill You Before You Kill Me on Fang Bang

Blondie: I Know but I Don’t Know on Parallel Lines

Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words on Words, Words, Words

Counting Crows: Accidentally in Love on Films about Ghosts

Jeremy Fisher: High School on Goodbye Blue Monday

The Kinks: Skin and Bone on Muswell Hillbillies

Michelle Branch: Everywhere on the Spirit Room

Minutemen: Maybe Partying Will Help on

Morissey: Now My Heart Is Full on Vauxhall and I

Sixpence None the Richer: There She Goes on Snow Day

Anthrax: Armed and Dangerous on Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax

The Beastie Boys: Girls on Licensed to Ill

Chicago (soundtrack): Mister Cellophane

A Goofy Movie (soundtrack): Stand Out

Jon Secada and Shanice: If I Never Knew You on Pocahontas

Journey: Worlds Apart (Separate Ways) on Greatest Hits

Lady Sovereign: Love Me or Hate Me on Public Warning

Santana: Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen on Abraxas

Tenacious D: Baby on the Pick of Destiny

Aerosmith: Young Lust on Pump

Breaking Benjamin: Unknown Soldier on Phobia

Cartel: Runaway on Chroma

Elvis Costello and the Attractions: The Imposter on Get Happy

Fake Problems: Soulless on Real Ghosts Caught on Tape

Genesis: The Magic of Time on Archive 1967-75

John Mayer: Daughters on Heavier Things

Kansas: Carry on Wayward Son on The Ultimate Kansas

Nirvana: On a Plain on Nevermind

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge on Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Tijuana Sweetheart: Tattooed Women on Public Display of Infection

The Beach Boys: Surfer Girl on Good Vibrations

bis: Fight the Power on The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes and Villains

Des’ree: You Gotta Be on I Ain’t Movin’

Hoku: Another Dumb Blonde on Snow Day

Little Feat: Dixie Chicken on Goin’ South

Primus: Mr. Knowitall on Frizzle Fry

Sister Sledge: We Are Family on Radio Disney Jams 2

Songs to Wear Pants to: Zombie Ninjas via songstowearpantsto.com

Strong Bad: The System Is Down on Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits

Sugarcult: Do It Alone on Lights Out

Blue Oyster Cult: (Don’t Fear the Reaper) on Agents of Fortune

The Corrs: Only When I Sleep on Talk on Corners

Elton John: Your Song on Love Songs

Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) on Greatest Hits

John Mellencamp: A Hand to Hold On To on American Fool

k.d. lang: Constant Craving on Ingenue

Keane: Somewhere Only We Know on Hopes and Fears

The Killers: Mr. Brightside on Hot Fuss

Lemon Demon: Ebaum’s World Dot Com via Lemon Demon official downloads

Marvin the Paranoid Android: Marvin, I Love You on the Best of Dr. Demento

Reel Big Fish: Dateless Losers on Cheer Up

Three Dog Night: One on Three Dog Night: The Singles

Anarachy Club: Behind the Mask on The Way and Its Power

Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine on Indigo Girls

Jeff Beck: Ambitious on Flash

Lacuna Coil: Closer on Karmacode

Matchbook Romance: Monsters on Voices

Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Noise Brigade on Let’s Face It

Soul Asylum: Runaway Train on Grave Dancers Union

Styx: Renegade on Pieces of Eight

Yngvie J Malmsteen: Damnation Game on Perpetual Flame

12 Stone Toddler: Candles on the Cake on Does It Scare You

30 Seconds to Mars: A Beautiful Lie on A Beautiful Lie

A.F.I.: Kill Caustic on Decemberunderground

Acro-Brats: Callout on Go Down Swinging

All-American Rejects: Dirty Little Secret on Move Along

Backstreet Boys: The Answer to Our Life on Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius

Boys Like Girls: Hero/Heroine on a free sampler

Eagles: New Kid in Town on Hotel California

Fiction Plane: Two Sisters on Left Side of the Brain

Finger Eleven: First Time on The Greyest of Blue Skies

Heart: Strong, Strong, Wind on Greatest Hits

Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi on Ladies of the Canyon

King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man on In the Court of the Crimson King

Lit: Miserable on A Place in the Sun

Mission of Burma: That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate on vs.

Natalie Imbruglia: Torn on Left of the Middle

Pat Benatar: My Clone Sleeps Alone on Heartbreaker

Pearl Jam: Once on Ten

Presidents of the United States of America: Ghosts Are Everywhere on These Are the Good Times People

The Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb on Forty Licks

Shaking Family: Touch Me on Dreaming in Detail

Silversun Pickups: Sort Of on Swoon

Sonic Youth: Kool Thing on Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock

Steely Dan: My Old School on Countdown to Ecstasy

Tegan and Sara: Walking with a Ghost on So Jealous

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: I’ll Keep Your Secrets on Beethoven’s Last Night

Vampire Weekend: Campus on Vampire Weekend

Young Fresh Fellows: Three Sides to This Story on The Men Who Loved Music

Bob Dylan: My Back Pages on Another Side of Bob Dylan

Bon Jovi: You Give Love a Bad Name on Slippery When Wet

Christina Aguilera: Reflection on Mulan

Collective Soul: Sister Don’t Cry on Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: The Endless Enigma, Part 2 on Trilogy

Guns N Roses: Sorry on Chinese Democracy

Hoyt Axton: You’re the Hangnail in My Life on All-Time Favorites

The Low Millions: Money Thing on Ex-Girlfriends

Peter, Paul, and Mary: I Have a Song to Sing, O on Peter, Paul, and Mommy

Plain White T’s: Our Time Now on Every Second Counts

The Pretenders: The Adultress on Pretenders II

RED: Breathe into Me on End of Silence

Talking Heads: Psycho Killer on Sand in the Vaseline

Please let me know if you notice I accidentally left a song hanging without a source.

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Featured Artists of the Day: Artists with 2 songs

The 38 artists who currently have exactly two songs

The Hives spread over 5 playlists

Puppet on a String (on The Black and White Album)

Outsmarted (on Veni Vidi Vicious)

Spread over 4 playlists

McFly (both on Just My Luck)

Obviously

Five Colors in Her Hair

Bleed the Dream (both on Killer Inside)

A Killer Inside

Stay the Hell Away from Me

Sheryl Crow

Soak Up the Sun (on C’mon C’mon)

The First Cut Is the Deepest (on The Very Best of Sheryl Crow)

Spread over 3 playlists

Slayer (both on Christ Illusion)

Cult

Supremist

Melissa Etheridge (both on Yes I Am)

I’m the Only One

Come to My Window

Rush (both on Moving Pictures)

Limelight

Vital Signs

Jem (both on Finally Woken)

They

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Lynyrd Skynyrd (both on Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)

Simple Man

Mississippi Kid

The Who

I Can See for Miles (on Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy)

Who Are You (on Who Are You)

Black Sabbath (both on Paranoid)

War Pigs/Luke’s Wall

Paranoid

Spread over 2 playlists

Tony Harnell (both on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog)

It Doesn’t Matter (SA2 version)

It Doesn’t Matter (SA version)

Aiden

Scavengers of the Damned (on Knives)

The Last Sunrise (on Nightmare Anatomy)

The Silent City (soundtrack)

The Mayor (Parts 1 and 2)

Set a Fire

Little Shop of Horrors (soundtrack)

Skid Row (Downtown)

Dentist

Arrested Development (both on Classic Masters)

Revolution

United Front

Fountains of Wayne

’92 Subaru (on Traffic and Weather)

Peace and Love (on Welcome Interstate Managers)

Third Eye Blind (both on Third Eye Blind)

Narcolepsy

Graduate

The Moody Blues (both on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)

Nice to Be Here

You Can Never Go Home

The Byrds

Have You Seen Her Face (on Cruising Altitude)

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) (on Turn! Turn! Turn!)

Men at Work (both on Business as Usual)

Who Can It Be Now

Down Under

Sex Pistols (both on Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols)

Liar

Anarchy in the UK

Howie Day (both on Stop All the World Now)

Collide

She Says

Devo

Freedom of Choice (on Freedom of Choice)

Shrivel-Up (on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo)

Gavin DeGraw (both on Chariot)

Just Friends

(Nice to Meet You) Anyway

Barenaked Ladies

Lovers in a Dangerous Time (on Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001)

Falling for the First Time (on Maroon)

Coldplay

The Scientist (on A Rush of Blood to the Head)

Fix You (on X & Y)

Lenny Kravitz

Lady (on Baptism)

Does Anybody Out There Even Care (on Let Love Rule)

Tony Harnell and the Mercury Train (both on Round Trip)

Intuition

Lonely Nights

Anna Nalick (both on Wreck of the Day)

Paper Bag

In the Rough

Ryan Cabrera (both on Take It All Away)

On the Way Down

Illusions

On one playlist only

SEGA (otherwise unspecified) (both on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sonic X Theme

Right There, Ride On

Ted Poley and Tony Harnell

We Can (on Sonic Heroes)

Escape from the City (on True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog)

Shiny Toy Guns (both on We Are Pilots)

When They Came for Us

We Are Pilots

Scratching the Itch (both on Why Bother)

The Buddy Disease

Lemon Juice

Nerf Herder

She’s a Sleestak (on How to Meet Girls)

I Only Eat Candy (on Nerf Herder)

Incubus (both on Make Yourself)

Privilege

Out from Under

Spinal Tap (both on This Is Spinal Tap)

Gimme Some Money

(Listen to the) Flower People

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Featured Artist of the Day: Artists with 3 songs

The 24 artists who currently have exactly 3 songs.

Spread over 4 playlists:

Jason Mraz

Wordplay:

Wordplay

Plane

Please Don’t Tell Her

Eiffel 65

Europop:

Too Much of Heaven

My Console

Now Is Forever

Carbon Leaf

Echo Echo

Desperation Song

Indian Summer

What About Everything

Let Your Troubles Roll By

Natasha Bedingfield

Unwritten:

Single

Unwritten

Wild Horses (must be manually separated from a hidden track)

Spread over 3 playlists:

Jane’s Addiction

Nothing’s Shocking

Ocean Size

Had a Dad

Idiots Rule

Julien-K

Nvr Say Nvr (on Death to Analog)

Waking Up (on Lost and Found)

This Machine (on the Sonic Heroes soundtrack)

Spy Fox Operation Ozone (soundtrack)

For Your Pies Only

Where Has the Ozone Gone

Live and Let Fry

Roger McGuinn

Back from Rio:

You Bowed Down

The Trees Are All Gone

If We Never Meet Again

Joe Satriani

Engines of Creation

Attack

Surfing with the Alien

Surfing with the Alien

Crushing Day

Scary Kids Scaring Kids

The City Sleeps in Flames:

The World As We Know It

Drowning You in Fear

The Bright Side of Suffering

Rise Against

Appeal to Reason

Long Forgotten Sons

The Strength to Go On

Endgame

Satellite

Depeche Mode

Ultra

Sister of Night

Violator

Enjoy the Silence

Policy of Truth

Linkin Park

Meteora:

Breaking the Habit

Nobody’s Listening

Numb

Math for the Real World (soundtrack)

Are We There Yet

Faster

Since I Was Two

Simon and Garfunkel

Old Friends:

The Sounds of Silence

He Was My Brother

I Am a Rock

Jewel

Pieces of You:

Pieces of You

I’m Sensitive

Daddy

Bloodhound Gang

Hefty Fine:

Ralph Wiggum

Something Diabolical

Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Bad Reputation

Bad Reputation

I Love Rock and Roll

You’re Too Possessive

Summertime Blues

Disturbed

The Sickness:

The Game

Down with the Sickness

Violence Fetish

Against Me

New Wave:

White People for Peace

Stop

The Ocean

Smash Mouth

Fush Yu Mang

Beer Goggles

Heave-Ho

Why Can’t We Be Friends

Spread over 2 playlists:

James Durbin

Memories from a Beautiful Disaster:

Right Behind You

Outcast

Everything Burns

The Muppets (soundtrack collection)

The Muppets

Life’s a Happy Song

Muppets Most Wanted

I’m Number One

Interrogation Song

Cyndi Lauper

Time After Time: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

True Colors

When You Were Mine

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Featured Artists of the Day: Artists with 7 songs

The three artists who currently have exactly 7 songs

Iron Maiden spread over 9 playlists.  One song is on four playlists.

All on Best of the Beast

Can I Play with Madness

The Evil That Men Do

Be Quick or Be Dead

2 Minutes to Midnight

Wasted Years

The Clairvoyant

Hallowed Be Thy Name

Megadeth spread over 8 playlists.

Album Spread

Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?

The Conjuring

Peace Sells

Devil’s Island

Good Mourning/Black Friday

Other

Symphony of Destruction (on Countdown to Extinction)

Sleepwalker (on a free sampler)

Five Magics (on Rust in Peace)

Aquabats spread over 5 playlists.

Album Spread

The Fury of the Aquabats

Fight Song

The Story of Nothing

Idiot Box

Lobster Bucket

Hi Five Soup

B.F.F.

Just Can’t Lose

Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of Death

Lovers of Loving Love

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Featured Artists of the Day: Artists with 10 songs

The three artists that currently have exactly 10 songs

Papa Roach: spread over 10 playlists. Has one song on four playlists.

Album spread:

Getting Away with Murder

Blood (Empty Promises)

Getting Away with Murder

Be Free

Done with You

Scars

Do or Die

Infest

Last Resort

Broken Home

Between Angels and Insects

Snakes

Judas Priest: spread over 8 playlists.  Has one song on four playlists.

Album spread:

Screaming for Vengeance

Riding on the Wind

Bloodstone

(Take These) Chains

Pain and Pleasure

Screaming for Vengeance

You’ve Got Another Thing Coming

Devil’s Child

Prisoner of Your Eyes (bonus track, may only appear on some volumes)

Other

United (on British Steel)

Eat Me Alive (on Defenders of the Faith)

The Beatles: spread over 6 playlists.

Album spread:

Abbey Road

Come Together

Octopus’s Garden

Her Majesty

Other

Help! (on Help!)

All You Need Is Love (on Magical Mystery Tour)

Yes It Is (on Past Masters Vol. 1)

Revolution (on Past Masters Vol. 2)

Drive My Car (on Rubber Soul)

With a Little Help from My Friends (on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

Hey Bulldog (on Yellow Submarine)

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Featured Artist of the Day: Weird Al Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic was one of the first musicians I listened to regularly and he is quite hilarious.  He currently has 11 songs spread over 6 playlists, making him the final of 15 artists with more than 10 songs.  He also stands out as the person with the most songs covering only three of the medium types.

Album spread:

Dare to Be Stupid

Like a Surgeon

Slime Creatures from Outer Space

Straight Outta Lynwood

White and Nerdy

Canadian Idiot

Do I Creep You Out

Other:

Waffle King (on Alapalooza)

Fat (on Even Worse)

Eat It (on In 3-D)

Handy (on Mandatory Fun)

Why Does This Always Happen to Me (on Poodle Hat)

Germs (on Running with Scissors)

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Featured Artist of the Day: Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson evolved from one of the few artists I didn’t care for to one of the many I did fairly abruptly some years ago.  Now, I like her enough that she has 11 songs spread over 10 playlists, making her one of the only 15 artists with more than 10 songs.

Album spread:

Breakaway

Breakaway

Behind These Hazel Eyes

Because of You

Gone

Addicted

Walk Away

You Found Me

I Hate Myself for Losing You

Hear Me

Thankful

Miss Independent

Beautiful Disaster