Rolling Stone Magazine Has REMADE Their Top 500 Albums Of All Time List
I’ve always wondered what happens what publications like Rolling Stone have to do when they make a “Top ___ Of All Time” list, when new stuff is constantly coming out…
Turns out, they’re free to remake the list at any time, and they did!
The Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums Of All Time list has been re-re-released (first in 2003, then in 2012, now in 2020).
Some major reorganizations include an updated Top 10 PLUS some pretty notably additions.
Top 10 RS Albums Of All Time:
1. “What’s Going On”, Marvin Gaye, 1971 (Was #6)
2. “Pet Sounds”, The Beach Boys, 1966 (Was #2)
3. “Blue”, Joni Mitchell, 1971 (Was #30)
4. “Songs in the Key of Life”, Stevie Wonder, 1976 (Was #56)
5. “Abbey Road”, The Beatles, 1969 (Was #14)
6. “Nevermind”, Nirvana, 1991 (Was #17)
7. “Rumours”, Fleetwood Mac, 1977 (Was #25)
8. “Purple Rain”, Prince and the Revolution, 1984 (Was #72)
9. “Blood on the Tracks”, Bob Dylan, 1975 (Was #16)
10. “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”, Lauryn Hill, 1998 (Was #312)
Check out Motown celebrating that TWO of their albums are in the top 10:
Some notable additions (that came out after 2003) include:
17. “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”, Kanye West, 2010
19. “To Pimp a Butterfly”, Kendrick Lamar, 2015
32. “Lemonade”, Beyoncé, 2016
33. “Back to Black”, Amy Winehouse, 2006
And here’s a little something for you Marvin Gaye fans celebrating today:
