# Whose music do you have the most of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882 "2013-01-11T18:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/61 "2013-01-12T13:18:23Z")
I’m not counting but I suspect it would be Nanci Griffith Frank Sinatra Moya Brennan Loreena McKennitt but most of them were bought years ago ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/62 "2013-01-12T14:02:52Z")
Total songs on hardrive: 13952 The most songs: Bob Dylan 460 Grateful Dead 371 (this is an outlier, I am not a big dead fan) The Beach Boys 363 David Bowie 264 Neil Young 243 Rolling Stones 241 T.Rex 237 Miles Davis and The Beatles 226 apiece ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/63 "2013-01-12T16:40:06Z")
I bought the complete set of Beatles recordings on iTunes a year or so ago, so they’re likely #1. #'s 2 and 3 are likely Bach and Mozart, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/64 "2013-01-12T17:39:41Z")
Low Elliott Smith Radiohead ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/65 "2013-01-12T22:00:37Z")
Willie Nelson Johnny Cash Tom Waits Bruce Springsteen ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/66 "2013-01-12T22:20:23Z")
1. Ke$ha: approx. 150 songs (most of which have never been officially released), plus 15 or so demos and other versions of songs I already have After Kesha, it gets much harder to say. Tom Petty (5 albums) is probably 2nd. Eminem and Michael Jackson are up there as well. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/67 "2013-01-12T22:28:27Z")
J.S. Bach Gustav Mahler Igor Stravinsky Those are my top 3. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/68 "2013-01-12T22:29:04Z")
Mine is Pink Floyd. I have all their studio albums on cassette, plus all their albums on CD except _More_ and _Division Bell_. Plus if you’re counting this I also have the Syd Barrett box set, 2 Gilmour albums, 1 Roger Waters album, and the Saucerful of Secrets book. Second would be Coheed and Cambria. Their 6 studio albums, plus the _Second Stage Turbine Blade_ graphic books, plus the _Year of the Black Rainbow_ novel, plus the Prize Fighter Inferno album (a solo album by Claudio Sanchez which should really count because it is set in the same world as the Co+Ca albums.) ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/69 "2013-01-12T22:30:57Z")
Bob Dylan. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/70 "2013-01-12T23:49:36Z")
The Beatles (700+ tracks) Grateful Dead (600+) Bob Dylan (400+) The Pogues (300+) The rest of this list all have around 250 or so tracks: Steve Earle Richard Thompson Pink Floyd Dave Alvin David Byrne/Talking Heads Neil Young/CSNY/Buffalo Springfield Tom Waits Bruce Springsteen ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/71 "2013-01-13T00:03:32Z")
I didn’t realize until I saw this OP, but I currently (since I lost my iPad and replaced my laptop) have _no music_ in my possession whatsoever. Too many moves, divorces, and other life events I guess. I listen to Pandora. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/72 "2013-01-13T00:08:15Z")
When I used to keep track of this, it was Tom Waits and Johnny Cash, who were roughly neck-and-neck and would leap frog one another from time to time. I’d be surprised if anyone’s overtaken them since. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/73 "2013-01-13T00:25:12Z")
My I-pod is at work, so I can’t check, but it’s probably Rob Thomas/Matchbox followed by Pink. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/74 "2013-01-13T00:43:25Z")
Not that easy to measure, but Mozart appears to lead the old dead guys with 1010 tracks. In rock n’ roll, surprisingly it’s NRBQ (231 songs) closely followed by The Who and Tom Petty. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/75 "2013-01-13T06:07:00Z")
by duration: ```auto J.S. Bach 27 hours Beethoven 15 hours Debussy 12 hours Ravel 8 hours ``` ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/76 "2013-01-13T06:18:28Z")
Mine are (several include duplicates between albums, alternate versions, remixes, instrumental versions, live versions, etc) … 1. Depeche Mode - 554 tracks 2. Erasure - 440 tracks 3. Nine Inch Nails - 285 tracks 4. Mesh (UK) - 246 tracks 5. VNV Nation - 195 tracks 6. Goldfrapp - 192 tracks 7. Anything Box - 185 tracks 8. The Echoing Green - 150 tracks 9. Death Cab for Cutie - 149 tracks 10. And One - 131 tracks ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/77 "2013-01-13T20:49:06Z")
in no particular order I would have to guess the following top three Dolly Parton Donna the Buffalo The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/78 "2013-01-13T21:57:56Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Not that easy to measure, but Mozart appears to lead the old dead guys with 1010 tracks. In rock n’ roll, surprisingly it’s NRBQ (231 songs) closely followed by The Who and Tom Petty. If you count by “tracks,” a composer like Mozart would tally up a disproportionate number, because so many of his works were symphonies, sonatas, concertos, etc., each made up of several movements, each of which counts as a separate “track.” ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/79 "2013-01-13T22:09:46Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > The Beatles (700+ tracks) > Grateful Dead (600+) > Bob Dylan (400+) > The Pogues (300+) > > The rest of this list all have around 250 or so tracks: > Steve Earle > Richard Thompson > Pink Floyd > Dave Alvin > David Byrne/Talking Heads > Neil Young/CSNY/Buffalo Springfield > Tom Waits > Bruce Springsteen I am trying to figure out how you have more than 700 Beatles tracks. Boots? Stereo and mono? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882/80 "2013-01-13T22:11:32Z")
Okay, I finally remembered to look it up - my top three are: Prince - 384 songs Chris Isaak - 116 songs Eric Clapton - 94 songs I have an Elvis Presley bunch of recordings that are a billion tiny little tracks, so I’m not counting that. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-music-do-you-have-the-most-of/646882.md?page=5)