500 Best Albums of All Time – Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone’s checklist of the 500 Supreme Albums of All Time changed into as soon as first and foremost printed in 2003, with a exiguous replace in 2012. Over the years, it’s been primarily the most customarily read  — and argued over — feature in the history of the magazine (closing twelve months, the RS 500 bought over 63 million views on the placement). Nonetheless no checklist is definitive — tastes alternate, recent genres emerge, the history of music keeps being rewritten. So we decided to remake our excellent albums checklist from scratch. To defend out so, we received and tabulated Top 50 Albums lists from more than 300 artists, producers, critics, and music-industry figures (from radio programmers to mark heads, love Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman). The voters includes Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Billie Eilish; rising artists love H.E.R., Tierra Whack, and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail; along with feeble musicians, reminiscent of Adam Clayton and the Edge of U2, Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan, Gene Simmons, and Stevie Nicks.

How We Made the Checklist and Who Voted

When we first did the RS 500 in 2003, other folks were speaking about the “demise of the album.” The album —and namely the album open — is more related than ever. In the end, it will also peaceable be argued that embarking on a venture love right here is more and more subtle in an period of streaming and fragmented taste. Nonetheless that changed into as soon as a part of what made rebooting the RS 500 attention-grabbing and enjoyable; 86 of the albums on the checklist are from this century, and 154 are recent additions that weren’t on the 2003 or 2012 variations. The classics are peaceable the classics, however the canon keeps getting bigger and greater.

Written By

Jonathan Bernstein, Pat Blashill, Jon Blistein, Nathan Brackett, David Browne, Anthony DeCurtis, Matt Diehl, Jon Dolan, Chuck Eddy, Ben Edmonds, Gavin Edwards, Jenny Eliscu, Brenna Ehrlrich, Suzy Exposito, David Fricke, Elisa Gardner, Holly George-Warren, Andy Greene, Kory Develop, Will Hermes, Brian Hiatt, Christian Hoard, Charles Holmes, Label Kemp, Greg Kot, Elias Leight, Joe Levy, Angie Martoccio, David McGee, Chris Molanphy, Tom Moon, Jason Newman, Bewitch O’Connor, Park Puterbaugh, Jody Rosen, Austin Scaggs, Karen Schoemer, Bud Scoppa, Claire Shaffer, Bewitch Sheffield, Hank Shteamer, Brittany Spanos, Bewitch Tannenbaum, David Thigpen, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Barry Walters, Jonah Weiner