Q magazine's complete Top 50 Bands Of All Time

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The British magazine used a formula to come up with the results for the
list. Each band was rated with a point system that measured the sale of
their biggest album, the scale of their largest headlining show and the
total number of weeks spent on the U.K. album chart.

Q magazine's complete Top 50 Bands Of All Time list is as follows:

01. PINK FLOYD
02. LED ZEPPELIN
03. ROLLING STONES
04. U2
05. QUEEN
06. DIRE STRAITS
07. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND
08. THE BEATLES
09. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
10. FLEETWOOD MAC
11. THE EAGLES
12. THE BEACH BOYS
13. OASIS
14. BON JOVI
15. GUNS N' ROSES
16. NIRVANA
17. GENESIS
18. BEE GEES
19. METALLICA
20. BOSTON
21. R.E.M.
22. BACKSTREET BOYS
23. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
24. AC/DC
25. THE POLICE
26. STEVE MILLER BAND
27. ABBA
28. SANTANA
29. SIMPLY RED
30. SUPERTRAMP
31. THE CARPENTERS
32. JOURNEY
33. SPICE GIRLS
34. DEF LEPPARD
35. DEEP PURPLE
36. UB40
37. AEROSMITH
38. WHAM!
39. PEARL JAM
40. HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH
41. STATUS QUO
42. SIMPLE MINDS
43. WET WET WET
44. *N SYNC
45. EURYTHMICS
46. DURAN DURAN
47. ERASURE
48. THE SHADOWS
49. BOYZ II MEN
50. VAN HALEN

[Arcadia]

Cor, ta MerryM. You should have done this as a Quiz, would have gone down a storm!! ;D

[Sofie]

#44 is a joke, right?

[Admin]

Why sofie?
They sold shedloads of albums and filled some big gigs...

[Sofie]

andy said:

Why sofie?
They sold shedloads of albums and filled some big gigs...

They're sh*t though...

[Elmer]

I think #40 is a joke. I have heard of them but were they big in America or something

[dandyhighwayman]

I'm surprised by #47...

Quite chuffed, but surprised non-the-less...

[Admin]

err, 40 were kind huge in the US, zillion coopies sold of cracked rear view, their debut album.
I think n sync are ok actually, caught a few of their videos recently and they're ok...

[Hullboy]

Is it worldwide album sales or just the UK? If it's just the UK I cant beleve that Hootie and N Sync are in ahead of (for example) Pet Shop Boys.

[Panda]

Q is crap.

[blackzeppelin]

misterhamster said:

Q is crap.

Amen.

[Oasis]

Hullboy said:

Is it worldwide album sales or just the UK? If it's just the UK I cant beleve that Hootie and N Sync are in ahead of (for example) Pet Shop Boys.

it's uk+usa album sales

[blackzeppelin]

It is not 'albums', it is just 'their biggest album', i.e. in the case of Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" or in the case of "Led Zeppelin" "IV".

It`s also not all concerts ever played, but just "their largest headlining show".

And obviously, that formula Q came up with must have preferred those shows to album sales & chart performance, otherwise the Beatles would have been clearly the #1 act in this list.

All this makes it a ridiculous list. Q have really lost the plot there.

[Admin]

They have to fill their pages with something...

[Hullboy]

Q's just a shadow of its former self. Was a must-read in the late 80s/early 90s but has completely lost the way for me.

[Kristofferson67]

#'s 46 and 47 have made me laugh, and I'm not sure when I'm gonna stop!

;D

[dandyhighwayman]

kristofferson67 said:

#'s 46 and 47 have made me laugh, and I'm not sure when I'm gonna stop!

;D

Grrrr...!