Rolling Stone gave its much talked (read: argued) about “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” a reboot, with less emphasis on rock and a noticeable nod to other musical tastes.The time around, the list, which was originally created in 2003 (and tweaked in 2012), honored Marvin Gaye’s seminal What’s Going On?
with the No. 1 slot, replacing The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.According to Rolling Stone, this revamp includes “154 new albums not previously on the 500 list, and 86 albums from this century.” Three-hundred artists (including Beyoncé, Wu-Tang’s Raekwon, H.E.R.
and Tierra Whack), journalists and industry types shaped this revision by voting on their favorite 50 albums of all time, and then the magazine tallied the.
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