your favorite musician who you feel successfully went solo and your favorite group who you feel have the most successfully solo artists?!

sting and the eagles for starters!

Off the dome:

Brian Eno and Wu-Tang Clan

Genesis had a couple guys who did okay

Off the dome:

Dome had a good album spread over four records, but I'd rank the first four Colin Newman records (not including provisionally entitled the singing fish) with any of Wire's.

Glen Hansard after The Frames
Boo Hewerdine after The Bible
Roger Waters after Pink Floyd

I'd say Reed and Cale each made more good music post-VU than the group did.

John, Paul, George

A Talking Cat?!

the most obvious the beatles but i was not impressed with johns post material but paul of course had tons of solo and with others and with other groups and george did fine and even ringo had some good stuff too!

2/3 of hüsker dü have done pretty well

posts v much in character here but the three members of Yellow Magic Orchestra have pretty insane solo careers

I'd say Reed and Cale each made more good music post-VU than the group did

Feel the opposite myself. Love the VU, but have very little time for either Reed or Cale's solo albums.

Reed's later work, starting with New York, is pretty damn good.

Van Morrison after leaving Them.

Rod Stewart after leaving The Faces

appreciate the remnants of galaxie 500

My all time list would contain Desertshore, Velvet Underground, VU & Nico, Paris 1919, Marble Index, VU ( more or less that order) and I’ve gotten plenty of fun from Reed and Tuckers solo work.

It would also contain Birthday Party, Rowland S Howard and Nick Cave, and I have had lots of joy from Mick Harvey, Harry Howard and Barry Adamson records, so that’s another very productive circle of musicians.

Off the dome:

Brian Eno and Wu-Tang Clan

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, May 27, 2022

Yeah I mean Peter Gabriel obvs.

Napalm Death gave us JK Broadrick, Scorn, Nicholas Bullen and more.

Every Hood side project is gold for mine. Chris Adams = Downpour, Bracken etc. Richard Adams = The Declining Winter. Andrew Johnson = A New Line, Related. Craig Tattersall = The Humble Bee. Latter two are The Remote View / The Famous Boyfriend. Gareth S Brown, John Clyde-Evans (aka Tirath Singh Nirmala), Matt Robson = Random Number, Steward Anderson was in the band briefly.
Of course not a single one was "successful" in units shifted, but highly influential in the right circles...

Neil Young the first that comes to mind. Did some great stuff with Buffalo Springfield and CSN&Y (and even the Mynah Birds!), but that's only a sliver of what he's known for now.

Ozzy deserves a mention. As does Dio — singer in two successful bands who then embarked on a highly successful solo career.

Successful solo:
Björk
David Sylvian
Robert Wyatt
Destroyer
Beyonce
Róisín Murphy
Richard Thompson
David Byrne

Mark Hollis

New Edition

lock thread

Also NWA and Miles Davis' second quintet

The Million Dollar Quartet?!

Lock thread?!

She fought and won herself!

Oh yeah, replacing my answer with Peter Gabriel, good call

I'd say Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson from Fairport Convention is pretty hard to top.

Verus

Side projects:
Containe
Plus Minus
Whysall Lane
The Fontaine Toups
The Pacific Ocean
French

Róisín Murphy

I still miss Moloko.

The 1960s girl group The Blue Belles have a pretty good record for this since Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash all eventually went on to notable solo careers (and 4th member Cindy Birdsong became a Supreme).

I think a lot of the early Yes solo albums are amazing