Top 500 Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone (2005)

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California. These are their best albums of all time. Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967. In 2003, Rolling Stone published an article describing what it considered to be the top 500 music albums of all time. In 2005, this list was updated and released as a book.
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Year of Release:
1967
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51,389
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Year of Release:
1966
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45,432
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Year of Release:
1966
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57,349
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Year of Release:
1965
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31,321
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1965
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30,879
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Year of Release:
1971
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19,943
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1972
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22,751
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1979
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36,687
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Year of Release:
1966
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27,973
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Year of Release:
1968
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43,614
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10

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Top 500 Albums of All Time composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 3 3%
1960s 36 36%
1970s 43 43%
1980s 11 11%
1990s 6 6%
2000s 1 1%
2010s 0 0%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United States 57 57%
United Kingdom 32 32%
Canada 5 5%
Ireland 2 2%
Mixed Nationality 2 2%
Australia 1 1%
Jamaica 1 1%
Compilation? Albums %
No 88 88%
Yes 12 12%
Live? Albums %
No 97 97%
Yes 3 3%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

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65/100 (from 62 votes)
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From 04/20/2021 12:55
Similaire au 2003
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From 06/30/2020 15:58
Too many compilations, as well as a strong focus on 60s and 70s. Otherwise, these are all excellent choices.
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From 08/10/2015 20:51
Jackwx you are the ofensive one, your chart is offensilevy trash.
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From 02/11/2014 17:16
Pretty nice overview of music even though it's perhaps to focused on 60's and 70's music.
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From 06/10/2013 22:05
Slight improvement over the other one.
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65/100
From 10/16/2012 18:51
list is ok, nothing spectacular
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From 05/15/2012 00:16
The List was a little bet better this time around, but still too narrow in it's focus. And still too many greatest hits and compilation albums, although a few of the most un-necessary we're removed. Still, it's a very dissapointing list, especially given the hype.
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From 04/23/2012 01:28
A little better than the 2003 list.
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From 04/19/2012 11:22
RS have definitely got a hard on for the Beatles.
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From 03/23/2012 18:58
A little better than their previous greatest album list but this one is still bad. How can anyone truly believe that the 60s and 70s had all of the good music. That is ignorance at its finest. What about bands like Nirvana, Radiohead, Kraftwerk, Blur, The Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Beach House, Beastie boys, Beck, Outkast, the Black Keys, Bjork, Bloc Party, Built to spill, Daft Punk, Kanye West, Jay-Z, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Pavement, Fugazi, Black Flag, Joy Division, Meat Puppets, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, Interpol, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, M83, Public Enemy, Nas, N.W.A., A Tribe Called Quest, Modest Mouse and many many many many many many more. I'm just tired of typing now but I could go on forever with great 80s 90s and 2000s artists.
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