Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2023 edition

~ Release group series

Release groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1971	What’s Going On	Marvin Gaye	Album	4.35	49
2	1966	Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	Album	4.3	57
3	1971	Blue	Joni Mitchell	Album	4.15	29
4	1976	Songs in the Key of Life	Stevie Wonder	Album	4.3	37
5	1969	Abbey Road	The Beatles	Album	4.6	73
6	1991	Nevermind	Nirvana	Album	4.45	97
7	1977	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	Album	4.3	82
8	1984	Purple Rain	Prince and The Revolution	Album + Soundtrack	4.3	53
9	1975	Blood on the Tracks	Bob Dylan	Album	4.2	29
10	1998	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	Lauryn Hill	Album	4	21
11	1966	Revolver	The Beatles	Album	4.65	70
12	1982	Thriller	Michael Jackson	Album	4.5	85
13	1967	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	Aretha Franklin	Album	3.55	20
14	1972	Exile on Main St.	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.2	55
15	1988	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	Public Enemy	Album	3.75	28
16	1979	London Calling	The Clash	Album	4.2	43
17	2010	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West	Album	4.25	19
18	1965	Highway 61 Revisited	Bob Dylan	Album	4.25	37
19	2015	To Pimp a Butterfly	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.4	23
20	2000	Kid A	Radiohead	Album	4.5	30
21	1975	Born to Run	Bruce Springsteen	Album	4.2	104
22	1994	Ready to Die	The Notorious B.I.G.	Album	4.15	19
23	1967	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	Album	4.35	48
24	1967	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Album	4.55	81
25	1971	Tapestry	Carole King	Album	3.9	183
26	1975	Horses	Patti Smith	Album	4.1	26
27	1993	Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)	Wu‐Tang Clan	Album	4.6	19
28	2000	Voodoo	D’Angelo	Album	4.5	11
29	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	The Beatles	Album	4.35	58
30	1967	Are You Experienced	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.1	55
31	1959	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Album	4.45	138
32	2016	Lemonade	Beyoncé	Album	3.8	25
33	2006	Back to Black	Amy Winehouse	Album	4.1	43
34	1973	Innervisions	Stevie Wonder	Album	4.6	37
35	1965	Rubber Soul	The Beatles	Album	4.4	112
36	1979	Off the Wall	Michael Jackson	Album	3.95	45
37	1992	The Chronic	Dr. Dre	Album	4	33
38	1966	Blonde on Blonde	Bob Dylan	Album	4.2	59
39	1980	Remain in Light	Talking Heads	Album	4.35	94
40	1972	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	David Bowie	Album	4.55	63
41	1969	Let It Bleed	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.3	43
42	1997	OK Computer	Radiohead	Album	4.55	38
43	1991	The Low End Theory	A Tribe Called Quest	Album	3.95	19
44	1994	Illmatic	Nas	Album	4.3	22
45	1987	Sign “☮︎” the Times	Prince	Album	4	27
46	1986	Graceland	Paul Simon	Album	4.35	46
47	1976	Ramones	Ramones	Album	4.25	21
48	1977	Exodus	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Album	4.3	56
49	1998	Aquemini	OutKast	Album	4.2	14
50	2001	The Blueprint	Jay‐Z	Album	3.65	9
51	1982	The Great Twenty‐Eight	Chuck Berry	Album + Compilation	4.5	4
52	1976	Station to Station	David Bowie	Album	4.2	32
53	1968	Electric Ladyland	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.35	61
54	1991	Star Time	James Brown	Album + Compilation	4.5	4
55	1973	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	Album	4.75	148
56	1993	Exile in Guyville	Liz Phair	Album	4.25	8
57	1969	The Band (“The Brown Album”)	The Band	Album	4.1	23
58	1971	[Led Zeppelin IV]	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.8	87
59	1972	Talking Book	Stevie Wonder	Album	3.9	27
60	1968	Astral Weeks	Van Morrison	Album	3.9	23
61	1987	Paid in Full	Eric B. & Rakim	Album	3.7	10
62	1987	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N’ Roses	Album	4.45	73
63	1977	Aja	Steely Dan	Album	3.95	46
64	2000	Stankonia	OutKast	Album	3.8	21
65	1963	Live at the Apollo, 1962	James Brown	Album + Live	4	14
66	1965	A Love Supreme	John Coltrane	Album	4.55	49
67	1996	Reasonable Doubt	Jaÿ‐Z	Album	3.9	11
68	1985	Hounds of Love	Kate Bush	Album	3.95	215
69	1995	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	Album	4.1	47
70	1988	Straight Outta Compton	N.W.A	Album	4	19
71	2022	RENAISSANCE	Beyoncé	Album	3.65	22
72	1972	Harvest	Neil Young	Album	4.3	32
73	1991	Loveless	My Bloody Valentine	Album	4.3	20
74	2004	The College Dropout	Kanye West	Album	4.25	22
75	1968	Lady Soul	Aretha Franklin	Album	4	15
76	1972	Superfly	Curtis Mayfield	Album + Soundtrack	4.25	22
77	1971	Who’s Next	The Who	Album	4.4	72
78	1975	The Sun Sessions	Elvis Presley	Album + Compilation	3	5
79	2016	Blonde	Frank Ocean	Album	4.35	5
80	1977	Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols	Sex Pistols	Album	4.3	54
81	2013	BEYONCÉ	Beyoncé	Album	4	28
82	1971	There’s a Riot Goin’ On	Sly & the Family Stone	Album	3.45	21
83	1969	Dusty in Memphis	Dusty Springfield	Album	3.65	20
84	1980	Back in Black	AC/DC	Album	4.4	59
85	1970	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band	Album	4.2	30
86	1967	The Doors	The Doors	Album	4.6	53
87	1970	Bitches Brew	Miles Davis	Album	4.5	47
88	1971	Hunky Dory	David Bowie	Album	4.35	37
89	1997	Baduizm	Erykah Badu	Album	4.35	12
90	1970	After the Gold Rush	Neil Young	Album	4.5	28
91	1978	Darkness on the Edge of Town	Bruce Springsteen	Album	4.3	167
92	1967	Axis: Bold as Love	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4	48
93	1997	Supa Dupa Fly	Missy Misdemeanor Elliott	Album	3.65	8
94	1970	Fun House	The Stooges	Album	4.2	22
95	2011	Take Care	Drake	Album	4.35	11
96	1992	Automatic for the People	R.E.M.	Album	3.85	37
97	1986	Master of Puppets	Metallica	Album	4.6	74
98	1998	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road	Lucinda Williams	Album	4.4	10
99	2012	Red	Taylor Swift	Album	4.4	97
100	1968	Music From Big Pink	The Band	Album	3.75	25

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