This is basically impossible but I'll try.
.. Nah, can't be done. I'll try two. the long-term faves that I keep getting back to and have done so for decades, and the ones that I've only (re-) discovered relatively recently but have been playing all the more to make up for it.
... Nah, couldn't be done either.
1. Long-term favorites:
David Bowie
The Kinks
J. Geils Band
The Waterboys
David Byrne (and, by extension, Talking Heads, but definitely Byrne)
Brian Eno
The Go-Go's (really just the one album but it's been with me since I was 14)
Joe Jackson
XTC
Rush
2. Runners-up and earlier influences:
The Grateful Dead
10CC/Godley&Creme
Rickie Lee Jones
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Led Zeppelin
Golden Earring
Elvis Costello
Charlie Mingus
Early Bruce Springsteen
Billy Joel
3. Heavy rotation favorites:
Marvin Gaye
Marian Call
Living Colour
Kate Rogers
Earth, Wind & Fire
Dr. Feelgood
Joan Jett (all things Runaways, really, but Joan was my 'in')
Little Feat
Taj Mahal
Judith Holofernes
And, knowing me, I'll be back soon with a list of "Top Ten Acts I Can't Believe I forgot the First Time".