Who's the largest part of your collection?

Bob Dylan by far

Pink Floyd (only because they have so many different masterings of each album)

The Beatles (If you include eolo Beatles as well)

RCA Living Stereo + Mercury Living Presence (although I guess that is more of a series than a specific artist)

 

New Order
Madness
Madonna
The Beatles

 

ALLMAN BROTHERS

 

on-u sound vs kompakt.
its a close call between them,
both labels are currently over 100 hours each in the archive.

 

if not a label sound then, bowie.
simple as that.

 

Dylan
Miles
Beatles
Dead
Stones
Sun Ra is getting up there

 

Simple Minds (#1)
Joy Division / New Order
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

and a fair number of
Philip Glass
Steve Reich

 

The Stones between 35 and 40 give or take...

 

Kinks
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Neil Young
Johnny Cash

 

That's a nice new wave and minimal music oriented list.
My list is different (as posted earlier), but living with these artists only wouldn’t be punishment too.

 

Prince

 

1.Grateful Dead -10 orig LPs&173 CDsDVDs&67 tapes&22 bootleg LPs.
2.Dylan-16 origLPs;35CDs&DVDs;22bootleg LPs&8 Bootleg CDs&Mono vinyl box
3.Stones-31 orig LPs;Mono vinyl&CD boxes;17CDs&7 Bootleg LPs
4.Beatles-13 orig 45rpm;33 orig LPs;Mono LP&CD boxes;8 Bootleg LPs;9 solo LPs&28 CDs&2009 Stereo box vinyl.
As for memoribelia-Dead many pieces.
Peace.

 

I have my legit and bootlegs separate. Legit, I count by item (on archival boxes, I do split them up - Beatles in Mono counts as individual records). Bootlegs, I have to count by size.

 

Neil Young
Grateful Dead
Ronnie Earl

 

Neil young and related
Allman brothers and related
Pink Floyd and related

 

Top 7, not in order:

Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Miles Davis
Aretha Franklin
Bruce Springsteen
Beatles
Kinks

 

•50 Louis Armstrong CDs
•Every Brubeck title before 1980
•40+ Benny Goodman titles
•Glenn Miller complete RCA box plus 10 live-or-radio releases, and the film soundtrack
•Miles Davis complete Columbia
•Bob Dylan complete catalog, mono and stereo
•Who catalog complete mono and stereo
•Yardbirds and Zeppelin complete + Page studio
Sessions discs
•Entire Bowie catalog, from his first demos to Lazarus
•Beatles mono, stereo and 70 bootlegs
•All but 3 Beatles solo titles (missing some Ringo)
•Entire Elvis Costello catalog including bootlegs and one-offs like the McPartland disc
•Entire Stranglers catalog except for the Cornwell-Clarke collaboration, including live and several bootlegs
•all but 4-5 Beach Boys and solo titles ever issued

I must have 40-50 Arthur Fiedler lps as well, and another 12-15 CDs

My Jackie Gleason and Nick Lowe complete catalogs don't even measure in size to those listed above . . .

 

If you buy all the solo work and collected bootlegs, 45s, mix and cover variants for 40 years this probably isn't as hard to do as it sounds.

 

1. Frank Zappa (by a long way)
2. Jethro Tull
3. Siouxsie & the Banshees

 

Beatles, Kinks, Stones

 

Hmmm hard to say exactly but I’d guess:

1. Van Morrison
2. James Brown
3. Either Stan Getz or John Coltrane, I’d have to count both to be certain.

 

1) John Coltrane
2) Sonny Rollins
3) Thelonious Monk.
Other major ones: Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Rush, ZZ Top.

 

Genesis
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Pink Floyd
Pearl Jam
Chicago

 

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles

 

1. Richard Thompson, including his work with Linda. With all the self-released CDs and live shows I have, no other artist comes close.
2. The Who (minus Tommy, which I never liked)
3. John Cale--again lots of live stuff
4. The Kinks
5. John Martyn
6. Canterbury-related artists (Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Caravan, Hatfield, etc.)

My jazz list would start with Miles Davis, followed by Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, and Dexter Gordon.