Rolling Stone Album Rankings (Posit Data Table Contest 2024 - Winner of Best Static Table)
The ‘New’ greatest albums of all time in comparison with the ones appearing in the Top 500 list released in 2003
Check out the Posit Data Table Winners’ List here: Winners of the 2024 Table Contest
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| Album | Artist | Genre | Release Year | Rank (2003) |
Rank (2012) |
Rank (2020) |
Change (2003-2020) | Peak Position | Weeks on Billboard | Popularity Index |
| What's Going On | Marvin Gaye | Soul/Gospel/R&B | 1971 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5
|
6 | 68  | |
| Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | Other | 1966 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0
|
10 | 62 | |
| Blue | Joni Mitchell | Country/Folk/Country Rock/Folk Rock | 1971 | 30 | 30 | 3 | 27
|
15 | Not on Spotify | |
| Songs in the Key of Life | Stevie Wonder | Soul/Gospel/R&B | 1976 | 56 | 57 | 4 | 52
|
1 | 70 | |
| Abbey Road | The Beatles | Other | 1969 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 9
|
1 | 79 | |
| Nevermind | Nirvana | Indie/Alternative Rock | 1991 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 11
|
1 | 77 | |
| Rumours | Fleetwood Mac | Singer-Songwriter/Heartland Rock | 1977 | 25 | 26 | 7 | 18
|
1 | 79 | |
| Purple Rain | Prince | Other | 1984 | 72 | 76 | 8 | 64
|
1 | 71 | |
| Blood on the Tracks | Bob Dylan | Country/Folk/Country Rock/Folk Rock | 1975 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 7
|
1 | 59 | |
| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1998 | 312 | 314 | 10 | 302
|
1 | 75 | |
| Revolver | The Beatles | Other | 1966 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -8
|
1 | 73 | |
| Thriller | Michael Jackson | Soul/Gospel/R&B | 1982 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 8
|
1 | 77 | |
| I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You | Aretha Franklin | Soul/Gospel/R&B | 1967 | 83 | 84 | 13 | 70
|
2 | 67 | |
| Exile on Main St. | Rolling Stones | Blues/Blues Rock | 1972 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -7
|
1 | 61 | |
| It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | Public Enemy | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1988 | 48 | 48 | 15 | 33
|
42 | 31 | |
| London Calling | The Clash | Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/Power Pop | 1979 | 8 | 8 | 16 | -8
|
27 | 68 | |
| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Kanye West | Hip-Hop/Rap | 2010 | Outside Top 500 | 353 | 17 | 484
|
1 | 85 | |
| Highway 61 Revisited | Bob Dylan | Country/Folk/Country Rock/Folk Rock | 1965 | 4 | 4 | 18 | -14
|
3 | 64 | |
| To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | Hip-Hop/Rap | 2015 | Outside Top 500 | Outside Top 500 | 19 | 482
|
1 | 78 | |
| Kid A | Radiohead | Indie/Alternative Rock | 2000 | 428 | 67 | 20 | 408
|
1 | 70 | |
| Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | Singer-Songwriter/Heartland Rock | 1975 | 18 | 18 | 21 | -3
|
3 | 65 | |
| Ready to Die | The Notorious B.I.G. | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1994 | 133 | 134 | 22 | 111
|
15 | 76 | |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | The Velvet Underground | Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/Power Pop | 1967 | 13 | 13 | 23 | -10
|
171 | 65 | |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | Other | 1967 | 1 | 1 | 24 | -23
|
1 | 71 | |
| Tapestry | Carole King | Singer-Songwriter/Heartland Rock | 1971 | 36 | 36 | 25 | 11
|
1 | 68 | |
| Horses | Patti Smith | Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/Power Pop | 1975 | 44 | 44 | 26 | 18
|
47 | 33 | |
| Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers | Wu-Tang Clan | Other | 1993 | 386 | 387 | 27 | 359
|
41 | 41 | |
| Voodoo | D'Angelo | Soul/Gospel/R&B | 2000 | 488 | 481 | 28 | 460
|
1 | 59 | |
| The Beatles | The Beatles | Other | 1968 | 10 | 10 | 29 | -19
|
1 | 76 | |
| Are You Experienced | Jimi Hendrix Experience | Blues/Blues Rock | 1967 | 15 | 15 | 30 | -15
|
5 | 69 | |
| Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | Big Band/Jazz | 1959 | 12 | 12 | 31 | -19
|
201 | 52 | |
| Lemonade | Beyonce | Other | 2016 | Outside Top 500 | Outside Top 500 | 32 | 469
|
1 | 73 | |
| Back to Black | Amy Winehouse | Soul/Gospel/R&B | 2006 | Outside Top 500 | 451 | 33 | 468
|
2 | 67 | |
| Innervisions | Stevie Wonder | Funk/Disco | 1973 | 23 | 24 | 34 | -11
|
4 | 62 | |
| Rubber Soul | The Beatles | Other | 1965 | 5 | 5 | 35 | -30
|
1 | 76 | |
| Off the Wall | Michael Jackson | Funk/Disco | 1979 | 68 | 68 | 36 | 32
|
3 | 73 | |
| The Chronic | Dr. Dre | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1992 | 137 | 138 | 37 | 100
|
3 | 71 | |
| Blonde on Blonde | Bob Dylan | Country/Folk/Country Rock/Folk Rock | 1966 | 9 | 9 | 38 | -29
|
9 | 54 | |
| Remain in Light | Talking Heads | Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/Power Pop | 1980 | 126 | 129 | 39 | 87
|
19 | 50 | |
| The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | David Bowie | Other | 1972 | 35 | 35 | 40 | -5
|
75 | 73 | |
| Let It Bleed | Rolling Stones | Blues/Blues Rock | 1969 | 32 | 32 | 41 | -9
|
3 | 46 | |
| OK Computer | Radiohead | Indie/Alternative Rock | 1997 | 162 | 162 | 42 | 120
|
21 | 79 | |
| The Low End Theory | A Tribe Called Quest | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1991 | 154 | 153 | 43 | 111
|
45 | 64 | |
| Illmatic | Nas | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1994 | 400 | 402 | 44 | 356
|
12 | 71 | |
| Sign O' The Times | Prince | Other | 1987 | 93 | 93 | 45 | 48
|
6 | 48 | |
| Graceland | Paul Simon | Other | 1986 | 81 | 71 | 46 | 35
|
3 | 49 | |
| Ramones | Ramones | Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/Power Pop | 1976 | 33 | 33 | 47 | -14
|
111 | 41 | |
| Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers | Bob Marley | Reggae | 1984 | 46 | 46 | 48 | -2
|
54 | 56 | |
| Aquemini | OutKast | Hip-Hop/Rap | 1998 | Outside Top 500 | 500 | 49 | 452
|
2 | 65 | |
| The Blueprint | Jay-Z | Hip-Hop/Rap | 2001 | 464 | 252 | 50 | 414
|
1 | 63 | |
| Data sourced from https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2024/2024-05-07 | ||||||||||
| 1 Album details in first four columns are colored by Genre | ||||||||||