Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums
The 2023 edition of Rolling Stone’s all-time album canon. Each placement feeds an artist’s prestige score, weighted by rank, and appears as a crimson badge on their profile. Artist names link where we track them. This is one input to the artist rankings.
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What's Going On
#1
Pet Sounds
#2
Blue
#3
Songs in the Key of Life
#4
Abbey Road
#5
Nevermind
#6
Rumours
#7
Purple Rain
#8
Blood on the Tracks
#9
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
#10
Revolver
#11
Thriller
#12
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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
#13
Exile on Main St.
#14
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
#15
London Calling
#16
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
#17
Highway 61 Revisited
#18
To Pimp a Butterfly
#19
Kid A
#20
Born to Run
#21
Ready to Die
#22
The Velvet Underground & Nico
#23
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
#24
Tapestry
#25
Horses
#26
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
#27
Voodoo
#28
The Beatles
#29
Are You Experienced
#30
Kind of Blue
#31
Lemonade
#32
Back to Black
#33
Innervisions
#34
Rubber Soul
#35
Off the Wall
#36
The Chronic
#37
Blonde on Blonde
#38
Remain in Light
#39
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
#40
Let It Bleed
#41
OK Computer
#42
The Low End Theory
#43
Illmatic
#44
Sign o' the Times
#45
Graceland
#46
Ramones
#47
Exodus
#48
Aquemini
#49
The Blueprint
#50
The Great Twenty-Eight
#51
Station to Station
#52
Electric Ladyland
#53
Star Time
#54
The Dark Side of the Moon
#55
Exile in Guyville
#56
The Band
#57
Led Zeppelin IV
#58
Talking Book
#59
Astral Weeks
#60
Paid in Full
#61
Appetite for Destruction
#62
Aja
#63
Stankonia
#64
Live at the Apollo
#65
A Love Supreme
#66
Reasonable Doubt
#67
Hounds of Love
#68
Jagged Little Pill
#69
Straight Outta Compton
#70
Renaissance
#71
Harvest
#72
Loveless
#73
The College Dropout
#74
Lady Soul
#75
Super Fly
#76
Who's Next
#77
The Sun Sessions
#78
Blonde
#79
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
#80
Beyoncé
#81
There's a Riot Goin' On
#82
Dusty in Memphis
#83
Back in Black
#84
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
#85
The Doors
#86
Bitches Brew
#87
Hunky Dory
#88
Baduizm
#89
After the Gold Rush
#90
Darkness on the Edge of Town
#91
Axis: Bold as Love
#92
Supa Dupa Fly
#93
Fun House
#94
Take Care
#95
Automatic for the People
#96
Master of Puppets
#97
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
#98
Red
#99
Music from Big Pink
#100
Led Zeppelin
#101
The Clash
#102
3 Feet High and Rising
#103
Sticky Fingers
#104
At Fillmore East
#105
Live Through This
#106
Marquee Moon
#107
When the Pawn...
#108
Transformer
#109
Court and Spark
#110
Control
#111
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
#112
The Queen Is Dead
#113
Is This It
#114
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
#115
Disintegration
#116
Late Registration
#117
Hotel California
#118
Stand!
#119
Moondance
#120
This Year's Model
#121
The Downward Spiral
#122
Led Zeppelin II
#123
Achtung Baby
#124
Paul's Boutique
#125
My Life
#126
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
#127
A Night at the Opera
#128
The Wall
#129
1999
#130
Dummy
#131
40 Greatest Hits
#132
Hejira
#133
The Score
#134
The Joshua Tree
#135
Maggot Brain
#136
21
#137
The Immaculate Collection
#138
Paranoid
#139
Catch a Fire
#140
Doolittle
#141
Born in the U.S.A.
#142
The Velvet Underground
#143
Physical Graffiti
#144
The Marshall Mathers LP
#145
Parallel Lines
#146
Grace
#147
Channel Orange
#148
John Prine
#149
Nebraska
#150
Faith
#151
Pretenders
#152
Rid of Me
#153
Amazing Grace
#154
The Black Album
#155
Let It Be
#156
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
#157
Mama's Gun
#158
Synchronicity
#159
Ten
#160
Crosby, Stills & Nash
#161
Different Class
#162
Saturday Night Fever
#163
Various artists
At Folsom Prison
#164
Murmur
#165
20 Golden Greats
#166
Violator
#167
Can't Buy a Thrill
#168
The Stranger
#169
Folklore
#170
Daydream Nation
#171
Bridge over Troubled Water
#172
In Utero
#173
The Harder They Come
#174
Various artists
Damn
#175
Fear of a Black Planet
#176
Every Picture Tells a Story
#177
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
#178
Life After Death
#179
Forever Changes
#180
Bringing It All Back Home
#181
Sweet Baby James
#182
Brown Sugar
#183
She's So Unusual
#184
Beggars Banquet
#185
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
#186
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
#187
Electric Warrior
#188
Dig Me Out
#189
Tommy
#190
At Last!
#191
Licensed to Ill
#192
Willy and the Poor Boys
#193
Bad
#194
Songs of Leonard Cohen
#195
Body Talk
#196
Meet the Beatles!
#197
The B-52's
#198
Slanted and Enchanted
#199
Diamond Life
#200
Midnight Marauders
#201
Homogenic
#202
Pink Moon
#203
Graduation
#204
Tea for the Tillerman
#205
Low
#206
Eagles
#207
Tha Carter III
#208
Raising Hell
#209
The Birth of Soul
#210
Unknown Pleasures
#211
Wild Is the Wind
#212
The Idler Wheel...
#213
Wildflowers
#214
American Beauty
#215
Either/Or
#216
Definitely Maybe
#217
CrazySexyCool
#218
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
#219
Déjà Vu
#220
Rage Against the Machine
#221
Ray of Light
#222
Imagine
#223
Fly
#224
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
#225
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
#226
Here's Little Richard
#227
De La Soul Is Dead
#228
The Ultimate Collection
#229
Anti
#230
Damn the Torpedoes
#231
Giant Steps
#232
Little Earthquakes
#233
Master of Reality
#234
Metallica
#235
Discovery
#236
Red Headed Stranger
#237
Trans-Europe Express
#238
Criminal Minded
#239
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
#240
Blue Lines
#241
Loaded
#242
Odessey and Oracle
#243
808s & Heartbreak
#244
Heaven or Las Vegas
#245
Mama Said Knock You Out
#246
Love Deluxe
#247
American Idiot
#248
Whitney Houston
#249
Singles Going Steady
#250
Honky Château
#251
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
#252
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
#253
Head Hunters
#254
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
#255
Tracy Chapman
#256
Coat of Many Colors
#257
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
#258
Pearl
#259
Cut
#260
Check Your Head
#261
Power, Corruption & Lies
#262
A Hard Day's Night
#263
Wish You Were Here
#264
Wowee Zowee
#265
Help!
#266
Double Nickels on the Dime
#267
Sail Away
#268
Yeezus
#269
Golden Hour
#270
What's the 411?
#271
White Light/White Heat
#272
Entertainment!
#273
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
#274
Curtis
#275
The Bends
#276
The Diary of Alicia Keys
#277
Houses of the Holy
#278
MTV Unplugged in New York
#279
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
#280
Nilsson Schmilsson
#281
In the Wee Small Hours
#282
Bad Girls
#283
Down Every Road 1962–1994
#284
Third/Sister Lovers
#285
Californication
#286
Mr. Tambourine Man
#287
The Modern Lovers
#288
Post
#289
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
#290
The Writing's on the Wall
#291
Van Halen
#292
Last Splash
#293
Weezer
#294
Random Access Memories
#295
Rust Never Sleeps
#296
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
So
#297
Full Moon Fever
#298
Live at the Regal
#299
Come On Over
#300
New York Dolls
#301
Tonight's the Night
#302
The Definitive Collection
#303
Just as I Am
#304
Alive!
#305
I'm Still in Love with You
#306
Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964
#307
Here Come the Warm Jets
#308
Closer
#309
Pink Flag
#310
On the Beach
#311
A Seat at the Table
#312
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
#313
One in a Million
#314
El Mal Querer
#315
The Who Sell Out
#316
Lady in Satin
#317
The Velvet Rope
#318
The Stone Roses
#319
Los Angeles
#320
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
#321
From Elvis in Memphis
#322
Sandinista!
#323
A Rush of Blood to the Head
#324
All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology
#325
Dirty Mind
#326
Live at Leeds
#327
Modern Vampires of the City
#328
Endtroducing.....
#329
Aftermath
#330
Like a Prayer
#331
Elvis Presley
#332
Still Bill
#333
Abraxas
#334
The Basement Tapes
#335
Bob Dylan and the Band
Avalon
#336
John Wesley Harding
#337
Another Green World
#338
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
#339
Doggystyle
#340
Siamese Dream
#341
Let It Be
#342
Greatest Hits
#343
Funky Kingston
#344
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
#345
AM
#346
Liquid Swords
#347
Time (The Revelator)
#348
Kick Out the Jams
#349
Music of My Mind
#350
SOS
#351
The Slim Shady LP
#352
The Cars
#353
Germfree Adolescents
#354
Black Sabbath
#355
Gris-Gris
#356
Rain Dogs
#357
Sour
#358
Radio City
#359
One Nation Under a Groove
#360
The Black Parade
#361
Never Too Much
#362
Mothership Connection
#363
More Songs About Buildings and Food
#364
Madvillainy
#365
Rocks
#366
If You're Reading This It's Too Late
#367
All Things Must Pass
#368
The Infamous
#369
Tha Carter II
#370
Anthology
#371
Cheap Thrills
#372
Hot Buttered Soul
#373
King of the Delta Blues Singers
#374
Dookie
#375
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
#376
Fever to Tell
#377
Run-D.M.C.
#378
Moving Pictures
#379
Mingus Ah Um
#380
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
#381
Currents
#382
Mezzanine
#383
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
#384
Rocket to Russia
#385
Donuts
#386
In Rainbows
#387
Young, Gifted and Black
#388
The Emancipation of Mimi
#389
Surfer Rosa
#390
Kaleidoscope
#391
Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner
#392
1989
#393
Diana
#394
Black Messiah
#395
Something/Anything?
#396
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
#397
The Raincoats
#398
Brian Wilson Presents Smile
#399
Beauty and the Beat
#400
Blondie
#401
Expensive Shit
#402
Supreme Clientele
#403
Rapture
#404
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
#405
Various artists
69 Love Songs
#406
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
#407
Ace of Spades
#408
Workingman's Dead
#409
Wild Honey
#410
Love and Theft
#411
Going to a Go-Go
#412
Cosmo's Factory
#413
Risqué
#414
Look-Ka Py Py
#415
Things Fall Apart
#416
The Shape of Jazz to Come
#417
Brothers in Arms
#418
Chief
#419
That's the Way of the World
#420
Arular
#421
Let's Get It On
#422
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
#423
Odelay
#424
Paul Simon
#425
Lucinda Williams
#426
Call Me
#427
New Day Rising
#428
Reach Out
#429
Un Verano Sin Ti
#430
How Will the Wolf Survive?
#431
Confessions
#432
Sound of Silver
#433
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
#434
Actually
#435
All Eyez on Me
#436
Demon Days
#437
Parklife
#438
Sex Machine
#439
Coal Miner's Daughter
#440
Blackout
#441
Beauty Behind the Madness
#442
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
#443
Extraordinary Machine
#444
Close to the Edge
#445
Journey in Satchidananda
#446
X 100pre
#447
Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
#448
Elephant
#449
Ram
#450
First Take
#451
Anthology
#452
Pretty Hate Machine
#453
Ege Bamyası
#454
Bo Diddley/Go Bo Diddley[a]
#455
Al Green's Greatest Hits
#456
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
#457
Southeastern
#458
Man on the Moon: The End of Day
#459
Melodrama
#460
For Emma, Forever Ago
#461
The Gilded Palace of Sin
#462
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
#463
3 + 3
#464
The Best of the Classic Years
#465
Red
#466
BLACKsummers'night
#467
Some Girls
#468
Clandestino
#469
400 Degreez
#470
Surrealistic Pillow
#471
Ctrl
#472
Barrio Fino
#473
#1 Record
#474
Sheryl Crow
#475
Kimono My House
#476
Moanin' in the Moonlight
#477
Something Else by the Kinks
#478
Amor Prohibido
#479
The Weight of These Wings
#480
If You're Feeling Sinister
#481
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
#482
The Anthology: 1947–1972
#483
Born This Way
#484
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
#485
Continuum
#486
Damaged
#487
The Stooges
#488
Back to Mono (1958–1969)
#489
Various artists
Heart Like a Wheel
#490
Harry's House
#491
Nick of Time
#492
Here, My Dear
#493
Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica
#494
II
#495
¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?
#496
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
#497
Various artists
Suicide
#498
Ask Rufus
#499
Funeral
#500