most frequently sampled artists/songs?

That hawaiian-sounding Turtles one.

Winston's "Amen Brother" wins (possibly by a landside.)

Art of Noise. Prodigy's "Firestarter", for instance.
Years ago, I remember hearing that AoN were third in "sampling frequency" behind the Godfather and the 'Werk. Can anyone confirm/deny this?

I deny it.

i find it hard to believe that Kraftwerk has been sampled more than Parliament.

of course there are the well-known drum breaks that have been sampled A LOT.

such as:

Bliss, Melvin
single, 'Reward' B-Side: (Sunburst 1977)
* "Synthetic Substitution" (Drums)
3XDope's "Funky Dividends"
Alkaholiks's "Turn the Party Out"
Alkaholiks's "Bulls--t"
Almighty RSO's "One in the Chamba"
Big Daddy Kane's "Just Rhymin' with Biz"
Big Daddy Kane's "Looks Like a Job for. . ."
Blessed Union of Soul's "Let Me Be the One"
Boss's "Comin' to Getcha"
Brotha Lynch Hung's "24 Deep"
Brothers Like Outlaw's "The Real McKoy"
Chubb Rock's "My Brother"
Chubb Rock's "The Night Scene"
Coolio's "I Remember"
Criminals at Large's "Times are Getting Hard"
Da King & I's "Flip Da Scrip"
De la Soul's "Potholes in My Lawn"
De la Soul's "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa"
De la Soul's "Sh.Fe.MC's"
Deee-Lite's "I Won't Give Up"
Def Jef's "Black to the Future"
Depeche Mode's "In Your Room"
DJ Honda's "Out for Cash"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Groove"
DOC's "Mind Blowin'"
Dr. Octagon's "Wild and Crazy"
Dr. Octagon's "A Visit to the Gynecologyst"
Digital Underground's "Tie the Knot"
Eazy-E's "Eazy Street"
En Vogue's "Hold On"
EPMD's "Mr. Bozack"
EPMD's "Scratch Bring it Back"
GangStarr's "Dwyck"
GangStarr's "Code of the Streets"
Ghostface Killah's "Deck's Beat"
Ghostface Killah's "Mighty Healthy"
Goats's "Do the Digs Dug"
Gravediggaz's "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide"
Gravediggaz's "Bang Your Head"
Group Home's "So Called Friends"
Guru's "Transit Ride"
Guru's "Take a Look (At Yourself)"
Ice T's "Original Gangster"
Ice T's "Depths of Hell"
Imani Coppola's "It's All about Me, Me and Me"
King & I's "Flip Da Scrip"
LL Cool J's "Crossroads"
Leaders of the New School's "Bass is Loaded"
MC Lyte's "Never Had Nothing Like This"
MadKap's "Here Comes the Break"
Masta Ace's "Saturday Nite Live"
Mellow Man Ace's "Silly Rabbit"
Method Man's "All I Need"
Naughty by Nature's "O.P.P."
Naughty by Nature's "Yoke the Joker"
Naughty By Nature's "On the Run"
Nice & Smooth's "Pump it Up"
Nice & Smooth's "Cake & Eat it Too"
Nikki D's "The Beauty Shop"
NWA's "Real N----z Don't Die"
NWA's "Alwayz into Somethin'"
ODB's "Cuttin' Headz"
Onyx's "Throw Ya Gunz"
Onyx's "N---a Bridges"
Orb's "Supernova at the End of the Universe"
Papa Chuk's "Make Way for the Rudeboy"
Peanut Butter Wolf's "I Will Always Love H.E.R."
Penthouse Players Clique's "P.S. Phuk U2"
Pharcyde's "Ya Mama"
PM Dawn's "On a Clear Day"
Public Enemy's "Miuzi Weighs a Ton"
Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype"
Redman's "I'm a Bad"
Redman's "Jam 4 U"
Run-DMC's "Wreck Shop"
Scarface's "Murder by Reason of Insanity"
Scarface's "For Real"
Schoolly D's "Saturday Night"
Slick Rick's "Venus"
Sloan's "Stove"
Souls of Mischief's "A Name I Call Myself"
Special Ed's "5 Men and a Mic"
Tim Dog's "I Ain't Takin' No Shorts"
Tone Loc's "On Fire"
Too Short's "Hoes"
Tupac's "The Streetz R Death Row"
Tupac's "When I Get Free II"
WC & the Maad Circle's "A Crazy Break"
Wu-Tang Clan's "Method Man"
Wu-Tang Clan's "Bring Da Ruckus"
Wu-Tang Clan's "Clan in Da Front"
Ultramagnetic MC's "Ego Trippin'"
Ultramagnetic MC's "Pluckin Cards"

Sly & the Family Stone (Stone, Sly)
Stand: (Epic 1969)
* “Sing a Simple Song” (Drums)
Aaron Hall’s “Don't Be Afraid”
Another Bad Creation’s “At the Playground”
ADL’s “Daddy”
Ahmad’s “Can I Party?”
Akinyele’s “Bags Packed”
Alkaholiks’s “Make Room”
Arrested Development’s “Mr. Wendal”
A Tribe Called Quest’s “Jazz (We've Got)”
Big Punisher ft Fat Joe’s “Twinz (Deep Cover '98)”
Mary J. Blige’s “Love is All We Need”
Boss’s “Drive By”
BT & Harmony’s “Down 4 My Thing”
BWP’s “Cotex”
BWP’s “S--t Popper”
Chubb Rock’s “Lost in the Storm”
Craig Mack’s “That Y'all”
Cree Summer’s “Miss Moon”
Compton's Most Wanted’s “I Don't Dance”
College Boyz’s “Underground Blues”
Cypress Hill’s “Latin Lingo”
Da King & I’s “Krak Da Weazel”
Da Lench Mob’s “Buck tha Devil”
Das EFX’s “Hard Like a Criminal”
Das EFX’s “Mic Checka”
De la Soul’s “Eye Know”
Del’s “Worldwide”
Diamond D’s “Check 1, 2”
Domino’s “Sweet Potato Pie”
Domino’s “Long Beach Thing”
Domino’s “Getto Jam”
Dr. Dre’s “Deep Cover”
Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance”
Digital Underground’s “Return of the Crazy One”
Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance Awards”
E-40’s “Nuttin' A-s N---a”
E-40’s “Hide n Seek”
Eazy-E’s “Eazy-Duz-It”
Eazy-E’s “It's On”
Ed OG’s “Skinny Dip”
Erick Sermon’s “Stay Real”
Fu-Schnickens’s “Props”
Fu-Schnickens’s “Sneekin' up on Ya”
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s “Kid Named Flash”
Gold Money’s “Nothin'”
Gorillaz’s “192000”
Group Home’s “Supa Star”
Heather B’s “All Glocks Down”
Adina Howard’s “A Freak Like Me”
Ice Cube’s “Who's the Mack?”
Ice Cube’s “Jackin' for Beats”
Ice Cube’s “Gangsta's Fairy Tale 2”
Ice Cube’s “Really Doe”
Ice T’s “Ricochet”
Insane Poetry’s “How Ya Gonna Reason with a Psycho”
Michael Jackson’s “They Don't Care about Us”
Jungle Brothers’s “For the Heads at Company B”
Jungle Brothers’s “Simple As That”
Jungle Brothers’s “J. Beez Comin' Through”
Jodeci’s “You Got It”
KAM’s “Ain't That a B---h”
KAM’s “Holiday Madness”
KAM’s “Stereotype”
KAM’s “Pull Your Hoe Card”
Kris Kross’s “Can't Stop the Bumrush”
KRS-One’s “Sound of da Police”
Lil' Shawn’s “I Made Love (4 the Very First Time)”
LL Cool J’s “How I'm Comin'”
LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out”
Lo-Key’s “Attention: the Showanda Story”
Lords of the Underground’s “Here Comes the Lords”
MadKap’s “Check it Out”
Marky Mark’s “You Gotta Believe”
Me Phi Me’s “Put Sho' Hands Together”
Mellow Man Ace’s “Me La Pelas”
Monk & Canatella’s “Rough Head”
Alanis Morissette’s “Thank U”
Naughty by Nature’s “Ready for Dem”
Alexander O'Neal’s “Love Makes No Sense”
Oaktown 3-5-7’s “It's Not Your Money”
ODB’s “Hippa to da Hoppa”
Papa Chuk’s “Trunk of Funk”
Paris’s “Check it out ch'all”
Pharcyde’s “I'm That Type of N---a”
Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “Anger in the Nation”
Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “For Pete's Sake”
Joe Public’s “Live and Learn”
Public Enemy’s “Party for Your Right to Fight”
Public Enemy’s “Can't Truss It”
Public Enemy’s “Brothers Gonna Work it Out”
Public Enemy’s “Get the F--k out of Dodge”
Public Enemy’s “Livin' in a Zoo”
Queen Mother Rage’s “Key Testimony”
Ra-Jahnee’s “Turn it Up”
Redman’s “Time 4 Sum Aksion”
Redman’s “Blow Your Mind”
Redman’s “So Ruff”
Rondo & Crazy Rak’s “Bacon & Grits”
Rumpletilskinz’s “Sweet Therapy”
Rumpletilskinz’s “Theramixx”
Run-DMC’s “In the House”
Sade’s “Cherrish the Day”
Salt-N-Pepa’s “Somma Time Man”
Scarface’s “Your Ass Got Took”
Schoolly D’s “Dis Groove is Bad”
ShowBiz & A.G.’s “Represent”
Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “The Jack Back”
Skoolbeats’s “Sly”
Soul II Soul’s “Nuff Love”
Spice Girls’s “If U Can't Dance”
Stereo MCs’s “The Other Side”
Stetsasonic’s “It's in My Song”
Stezo’s “Gets into His Move”
Terminator X’s “Back to the Scene of the Crime”
TLC’s “Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg”
TLC’s “What about Your Friends?”
TLC’s “Hat 2 Da Back”
Tupac’s “Peep Game”
Tupac’s “Souljah's Revenge”
Tupac’s “Temptations”
Tupac’s “Young N----z”
UTFO’s “Rough and Rugged”
WC & the Maad Circle’s “Behind Closed Doors”
West Street Mob’s “Sing A Simple Song”
Wu-Tang Clan’s “Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)”
X-Clan’s “Funk Liberation”
Yaggfu Front’s “?”
Yo-Yo’s “Mackstress”

wow, where are you getting these lists?

http://www.the-breaks.com/ ....which is missing a LOT in its "Amen" entry.

"Funky Drummer" and "When The Levee Breaks" are probably the most common drum breaks. Actually, "Funky Drummer" is DEFINITELY the most sampled drum track.

Don't forget:

Honey Drippers
single: (Alaga 1973)
* "Impeach the President" (Drums)
3XDope's "No Words"
A Lighter Shade of Brown's "Paquito Soul"
Alkaholiks's "21 and Under"
Alphabet Soup's "The Resurrection of Gertrude"
Anotha Level's "What's That Cha Say?"
Antoinette's "I Got an Attitude"
Arsonists's "The Session"
Above the Law's "Kalifornia"
Audio Two's "Top Billin'"
Big Daddy Kane's "Smooth Operator"
Big Daddy Kane's "Put Your Weight on It"
Biz Markie's "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Blackstreet's "Joy"
Bobby Jimmy & the Critters's "Wienie Whistlers"
Boss's "Recipe of a Hoe"
Chubb Rock's "What's the Word?"
Chubb Rock's "Just the Two of Us"
Chubb Rock's "I Need Some Blow"
College Boyz's "F--k All the. . ."
College Boyz's "Hollywood Paradox"
Common's "No Defense"
Cree Summer's "Revelation Sunshine"
Dana Dane's "Little Bit of Dane"
Dana Dane's "Dana Dane with Fame"
De la Soul's "Ring Ring Ring (Hey Hey Hey)"
Dilated Peoples's "Guaranteed"
Digable Planets's "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "As We Go"
DOC's "Mind Blowin'"
Downtown Science's "If I Was"
Dr. Dre's "Roach Intro"
Eazy-E's "Eazy-Duz-It"
EPMD's "Gots to Give the People"
EPMD's "Total Kaos"
EPMD's "Headbanger"
En Vogue's "Give it up Turnit Aloose"
Eric B & Rakim's "Move the Crowd"
Everlast's "Pass it On"
Fu-Schnickens's "Bebo"
GangStarr's "Alongwaytogo"
Genius's "Pass the Bone"
Goats's "Tricks of the Shade"
Grand Puba ft Mary J. Blige's "Check it Out"
Groove B Chill's "Hip-Hop Music"
Hi-C's "I'm Not Your Puppet"
InI's "Fakin' Jax"
Ice Cube's "Gangsta's Fairy Tale 2"
Ice Cube's "Givin' up the Nappy Dug Out"
Ice Cube's "Who's the Mack?"
Illegal's "We Getz Buzy"
Insane Poetry's "Stalkin with. . ."
Janet Jackson's "That's the Way Love Goes"
Jazzy Grooves's "On the Rag"
Joint Ventures's "F--k What Ya Heard"
Jungle Brothers's "Braggin' and Boastin'"
Jungle Brothers's "40 Below Trooper"
Jodeci's "Come and Talk to Me"
K-Solo's "I Can't Hold it Back"
K-Solo's "The Baby Doesn't Look Like Me"
King T's "Can this Be Real?"
Kool Keith's "Sex Style"
Kwame's "Hai Love"
Lord Finesse's "Keep the Crowd Listening"
Masta Ace's "Go Where I Send Thee"
Masta Ace's "Rollin' with Um Dadda"
Meredith Brooks's "B---h"
Mick Jagger's "Sweet Thing"
Nas's "I Can"
Notorious BIG's "Ready to Die"
Nice & Smooth's "Funky for You"
Nice & Smooth's "Down the Line"
NWA's "Gangsta, Gangsta"
NWA's "Kamurshol"
LL Cool J's "Around the Way Girl"
MC Lyte's "10% Dis"
MC Lyte's "2 Young for What?"
MC Shan's "I Ran the Game"
Najee's "Laid Back"
Notorious BIG's "Ready to Die"
Notorious BIG's "Unbelievable"
Nice & Smooth's "One, Two, and One More Makes Three"
Nine's "Any MC"
NWA's "Gangsta, Gangsta"
NWA's "The Dayz of Wayback"
Patti Labelle's "Right King of Lover"
Professor Griff's "The Interview"
Raw Fusion's "Rockin' to the PM"
Red Hot Lover Tone's "I Like"
Redhead Kingpin's "Do the Right Thing"
Rumpletilskinz's "Hi Volume"
Run-DMC's "Back from Hell"
Scarface's "The Pimp"
Shabba Ranks's "Mr. Loverman"
Shaggy ft Janet Jackson's "Luv Me, Luv Me"
Shyheim's "Napsack"
Slick Rick's "Moses"
Slick Rick's "It's a Boy"
Sounds of Blackness's "I'm Going All the Way"
Sounds of Blackness's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
Soul II Soul's "Jazzie's Groove"
Soul II Soul's "Jazzie's Groove"
Special Ed's "Ya Wish Ya Could"
Spoonie Gee's "You Ain't Just a Fool, You're Same Old Fool"
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud's "Do the James"
Tekken 3's "End Theme"
Terminator X's "Juvenile Delinquintz"
Terminator X's "Back to the Scene of the Bass"
Tupac's "Rebel of the Underground"
Ultramagnetic MC's "Funk Radio"
Ultramagnetic MC's "Dolly and the Rat Trap"
Karyn White's "Hunger"
Christopher Williams's "Lonely"
Wu-Tang Clan's "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin' to F--k wit'"
Y'All So Stupid's "Van Full of Pakistans"
Yo-Yo's "Letter to the Pen"
X-Clan's "Raise the Flag"
X-Clan's "Ooh Baby"
X-Clan's "Verbal Milk"

I thought it was, like, a well-known fact that "Funky Drummer" was the most-sampled song of all time, and #2 was "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band.

Cut up variations of the Amen break were used on like some absurb percentage of jungle and hardcore records from the 91-95 (and it was a big hip hop break to boot and there are retro-junglists now who are basically Amen revivalists who release stuff.) So if any other break or sample has too overcome 1,000s and 1,000s of uses to every come close to "Amen Brother". I just don't see how "Funky Drummer" could top that. No single hip hop sample has (to my knowledge) ever used as much as the Amen break.

I concur, cap'n.