The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Greatness in music is not a fixed quantity you can measure once and shelve. Rolling Stone’s ranking of 500 albums, stretching from Elvis Presley’s 1956 debut to Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? in 2019, takes that idea as its founding premise. The question behind every entry isn’t how many copies an album moved or how flawless it sounds. It’s whether the record changed something — a sound, a genre, a sense of what was possible. Judged that way, a barely-selling blues session and a chart-topping pop machine can end up neighbors.

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The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time