Its taken a while but I finally have a definitive analysis of producers. There were a couple of major problems in the original data. Firstly multiple attributions meant that I had to go through the data and create separate entries for each producer where there was more than one producer on an album. Secondly, inconsistent spellings meant that I had to review the data to ensure that a producers name was spelt the same each time - e.g. Brian Eno rather than B. Eno or Eno.
So now you appreciate he gargantuan task (cheer here), here are the results.
There were 900 different producers accredited amongst the 1001 albums.
672 producers had only one album on the list.
144 producers had exactly two albums on the list.
42 producers had exactly three albums on the list.
Only 42 producers had four or more albums on the list.
So who are the uber-producers?
First by a long way is Brian Eno - with 13 entries as follows:
| Ambient no.1: Music for Airports | Brian Eno |
| Another Green World | Brian Eno |
| Before & After Science | Brian Eno |
| Here Come the Warm Jets | Brian Eno |
| My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts | Brian Eno / David Byrne |
| Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | Devo |
| Schleep | Robert Wyatt |
| Fear of Music | Talking Heads |
| More Songs About Buildings and Food | Talking Heads |
| Remain in Light | Talking Heads |
| Achtung Baby | U2 |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind | U2 |
| The Joshua Tree | U2 |
Even this understates his influence - as he didn't receive production credits for Low, Heroes and Lodger with Bowie.
In second position is Rick Rubin with 9 entries:
| Licensed to Ill | Beastie Boys |
| American IV: The Man Comes Around | Johnny Cash |
| Blood Sugar Sex Magik | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Raising Hell | Run-DMC |
| Reign in Blood | Slayer |
| System Of A Down | System Of A Down |
| Electric | The Cult |
| De-loused at the Crematorium | The Mars Volta |
Sharing the bronze medal with 8 entries each are two Davids, Bowie and Briggs. As you would imagine, many of Bowie's entries are for his own albums:
| Aladdin Sane | David Bowie |
| Heroes | David Bowie |
| Hunky Dory | David Bowie |
| Low | David Bowie |
| Station to Station | David Bowie |
| Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | David Bowie |
| The Idiot | Iggy Pop |
| Transformer | Lou Reed |
Most of David Briggs's are for his work with Neil Young:
| After The Goldrush | Neil Young |
| Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | Neil Young |
| On the Beach | Neil Young |
| Ragged Glory | Neil Young |
| Rust Never Sleeps | Neil Young |
| Tonight's the Night | Neil Young |
| Henry's Dream | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds |
| Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus | Spirit |
With 7 entries each are Bob Johnston, George Martin and Steve Lillywhite.
Bob Johnston has worked with an interesting range of singer-songwriters:
| Blonde On Blonde | Bob Dylan |
| Highway 61 Revisited | Bob Dylan |
| Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash |
| Johnny Cash at San Quentin | Johnny Cash |
| Songs From A Room | Leonard Cohen |
| Songs of Love and Hate | Leonard Cohen |
| Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | Simon & Garfunkel |
George Martin's are all with The Beatles:
| A Hard Day's Night | The Beatles |
| Abbey Road | The Beatles |
| Revolver | The Beatles |
| Rubber Soul | The Beatles |
| Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles |
| The Beatles (White Album) | The Beatles |
| With The Beatles | The Beatles |
Steve Lillywhite has an interesting assortment of UK bands:
| Vauxhall and I | Morrissey |
| III | Peter Gabriel |
| Talk Talk Talk | Psychedelic Furs |
| The Scream | Siouxsie And The Banshees |
| The La's | The La's |
| If I Should Fall from Grace with God | The Pogues |
| War | U2 |
Here is the full list of producers with four or more entries:
| Entries | Producer |
| 13 | Brian Eno |
| 9 | Rick Rubin |
| 8 | David Bowie; David Briggs |
| 7 | Bob Johnston; George Martin; Steve Lillywhite |
| 6 | Chris Blackwell; Chris Thomas; Neil Young; Nigel Goodrich; Paul Simon; Scott Litt |
| 5 | Bob Ezrin; Daniel Lanois; Gary Katz; Jimmy Miller; Jimmy Page; Joe Boyd; John Leckie; Ken Nelson; Nick Lowe; Sonic Youth; Stephen Street; Todd Rundgren; Tom Dowd; Tom Wilson; Tony Visconti |
| 4 | Arif Mardin; Dave Fridmann; Dr. Dre; Flood; Gil Norton; Glyn Johns; John Cale; John Simon; Ken Scott; Mike Hedges; Paul Rothchild; Phil Spector; Robert John Lange; RZA; Shel Talmy; Stevie Wonder |
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