The Rolling Stone Album Rankings

Context

The RS 500 list is a product of meticulous selection by Rolling Stone's editors, who drew upon the insights from two comprehensive surveys. Initially, in 2003, a diverse panel comprising 271 notable figures from the music industry, including artists, producers, and journalists, was tasked with identifying the most influential albums ever produced. Subsequently, in 2009, a similar assembly of 100 specialists was convened to determine the standout albums of the 2000s. The outcomes of these polls were instrumental in shaping Rolling Stone's esteemed compilation of the all-time greatest albums.

Content

Geography: United Kingdom

Time period: 2003-2020

Unit of analysis: The Rolling Stone Album Rankings

Dataset: The dataset contains details information of The Pudding compares Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” lists from 2003, 2012, and 2020.

Variables:

• Sort name: Name used for sorting
• clean name: Clean name
• album: Album name
• rank_2003: Rank in 2003. NA if album not released yet or not in top 500
• rank_2012: Rank in 2012. NA if album not released yet or not in top 500
• rank_2020: Rank in 2020. NA if not in top 500
• differential: 2020-2003 Differential. Negative value if it went down in the chart. Positive value if it went up
• release_year: Release Year
• genre: Album genre
• type: Album type
• weeks_on_billboard: Weeks on Billboard
• peak_billboard_position: Peak Billboard Position
• spotify_popularity: Spotify Popularity. NA if not on Spotify
• spotify_url: Spotify URL. NA if not on Spotify
• artist_member_count: Number of artists in the group
• artist_gender: Gender of the artist(s). Male/Female if it's a mixed-gender group
• artist_birth_year_sum: Sum of the artists birth year. e.g. for a 2 member group, with one person born 1945 and
  another 1950, the value is 3895.
• debut_album_release_year: Debut Album Release Year
• avg_age_at_top_500: Average age at top 500 Album
• years_between: Years Between Debut and Top 500 Album
• album_id: Album ID. NOS at the beginning of the ID if not on Spotify

Data Source

The data in this dataset was collected from various sources and thank to all researchers who collected it.
At album rankings from Rolling Stone. h/t Data is plural. A visual essay from The Pudding looks at what makes an album the greatest of all time, and shares the data they put together for the essay.

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