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Greatest Guitar Solos Dataset
The full GreatestSolos consensus ranking as a CSV: 588 solos with rank, title, artist, guitarist, year, how many of the 80 published lists include it, and the score.
License
Free to use under CC BY 4.0. Please credit "GreatestSolos.com" and link to greatestsolos.com.
How it is built
Each appearance on a published list earns points: weight × (0.35 + 0.65 × position). See How we rank and Sources. The data updates when we add lists.
Preview: the top 10
| Solo | Rank | Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin, 1971 | #1 | 64 |
| Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd, 1979 | #2 | 61 |
| Hotel California — Eagles, 1976 | #3 | 61 |
| Eruption — Van Halen, 1978 | #4 | 58 |
| Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1973 | #5 | 54 |
| Sweet Child O' Mine — Guns N' Roses, 1987 | #6 | 52 |
| All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix, 1968 | #7 | 48 |
| Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen, 1975 | #8 | 48 |
| Sultans of Swing — Dire Straits, 1978 | #9 | 48 |
| Highway Star — Deep Purple, 1972 | #10 | 41 |