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Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs Most Prolific Artists

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Name the artists with multiple entries on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time compiled in 2004 and revised in 2010 and then 2021. Total appearances and year range of songs appearing shown. Object is most appearances, not artists.

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Elmo Blatch

4 years ago

i saw that this list came out recently and was hoping to findit on Hugequiz!

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darin

4 years ago

this quiz has changed a bit so I reset the stats as there are much fewer results as before the recent 2021 changes to the Top 500 Songs. previously there were about 350 total songs from multiple-listed artists, now only around 200.

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