The field is set and the votes are tallied. Over the next couple of months I will be previewing the field letter by letter. The numbers after each artist are the total # of points scored.

A Flock Of Seagulls 87.13
A Tribe Called Quest 318.97
Aaliyah 133.33
Abba 240.73
ABC 140.28
Abdul, Paula 105.61
AC/DC 564
Adams, Bryan 147.92
Adams, Ryan 93.96
Aerosmith 423.01
AFI 91.86
Aguilera, Christina 77.72
A-Ha 108.33
Air 125
Air Supply 74.05
Akon 70
Al B Sure! 68.95
Alan Parsons Project, The 134.28
Alarm, The 85.19
Alice Cooper 145.22
Alice In Chains 304.69
All-American Rejects, The 61.23
Allen, Lily 86.22
Allman Brothers, The 271.27
Alphaville 83.22
Amerie 111.11
Amos, Tori 135.09
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 90
Anderson, Laurie 98.75
Animal Collective 321.53
Animals, The 199.86
Anka, Paul 91.92
Annie 83.83
Ant, Adam 97
Anthrax 75.45
Antony and the Johnsons 85.02
Aphex Twin 100.99
Apple, Fiona 120
Arcade Fire 526.91
Architecture In Helsinki 90.55
Arctic Monkeys 208.23
Armstrong, Louis 161
Arrested Development 150.89
Asia 87.77
At The Drive-In 96.19
Audioslave 113.28
Avalanches, The 110.94
Aztec Camera 99.94

Akon and not the Associates? Really?

I wonder why Cooper is not in the Cs.

Annie made it!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have spam!

We need a forum that lets you register a name.

Ladies and gentlemen we have comedy on the forum!

Keep it comin whoever you are!

Deleted a whole bunch of spam posts.

Or...delete it all

yeah, how about another artist poll instead? (talkin' of spam and shit)

B-52's, The 197
Bachman-Turner Overdrive 100.01
Bad Brains 70.75
Bad Company 178.19
Bad Religion 112.5
Badfinger 75.26
Badu, Erykah 132.15
Baez, Joan 82.38
Bananarama 74.5
Band Of Horses 138.51
Band, The 425.61
Bangles, The 111.46
Barenaked Ladies 73.32
Basement Jaxx 125.04
Bat For Lashes 93.51
Bauhaus 114.29
Beach Boys, The 900.84
Beach House 91.22
Beastie Boys 641.38
Beatles, The 1906.65
Beck 485.62
Bedingfield, Natasha 66
Bee Gees 270.8
Bell Biv Devoe 83.88
Belle And Sebastian 194.85
Belly 80.16
Benetar, Pat 125.66
Bennett, Tony 92.22
Benton, Brook 110.58
Berlin 102.84
Berry, Chuck 663.16
Better Than Ezra 88.52
Beyonce 180.33
Big Boi 118
Big Country 75.57
Big Head Todd & The Monsters 64
Big Star 406.93
Bill Haley & The Comets 137.79
Bjork 554.14
Black Crowes, The 233.7
Black Eyed Peas 101
Black Flag 62.09
Black Keys, The 88.33
Black Rebel Motrocycle Club 123.92
Black Sabbath 593.87
Black Sheep 81.17
Black Uhuru 84.1
Blackstreet 98.39
Blige, Mary J. 147.22
Blind Faith 145.26
Blind Melon 86.22
Blink 182 160.38
Bloc Party 199.31
Blondie 406.5
Blow, Kurtis 162.5
Blue October 85.19
Blue Oyster Cult 136.22
Blues Traveler 110.83
Blur 565.38
BoDeans, The 173.57
Bon Iver 73.1
Bon Jovi 318.09
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 52.85
Boogie Down Productions 110.07
Booker T. & The MG's 160.68
Boston 218.71
Bowie, David 1244.15
Boyz II Men 143.64
Bragg, Billy 140.94
Brand New 82.22
Brandy 72.22
Bravery, The 86.58
Braxton, Toni 85.28
Breaking Benjamin 71.34
Breeders, The 150.6
Brel, Jacques 99
Bright Eyes 165.28
Broken Bells 63.35
Brooks, Garth 116.67
Brown, Bobby 115.71
Brown, James 730.9
Browne, Jackson 200
Buckley, Jeff 240.08
Buckley, Tim 154.73
Buffalo Springfield 125.42
Buffett, Jimmy 110.19
Built To Spill 175.75
Burke, Solomon 98.93
Burning Spear 69.33
Bush 111.96
Bush, Kate 296.88
Busta Rhymes 156.1
Buzzcocks 194.31
Byrds, The 451.58

Well, not surprinsingly the top 3 "a" artists are AC/DC, Aerosmith and Arcade Fire. However, I am surprised that AC/DC took the crown.