Rolling Stone

The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time By The Editors Of Rolling Stone

From Rolling Stone, the definitive and lavishly illustrated companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the world of music

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A NEW TAKE: The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was updated with a new selection in 2020 and received more than 125 million page views in the first month of release. The book features all 500 with additional album art, original photography, interviews, making–of stories, and critical commentary.

BRAND REACH: Rolling Stone will promote the book across its print, digital, and social media platforms, reaching more than 60 million viewers. An earlier version of this book sold more than 100,000 copies in 2010.

CELEBRITY INTRODUCTION: A major figure in the music world, to be announced closer to publication, will write the book’s introduction.

SPECIFICATIONS

When Rolling Stone publishes a list, the world listens. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first established in 2003 and the lineup was updated in 2012, polling the industry’s most celebrated artists, producers, industry executives, and journalists to create the definitive ranking. As a companion to the original 2003 list, Rolling Stone and Wenner Books published the bestselling 500 Greatest Albums coffee table book.

In 2020 Rolling Stone started from scratch with a completely new 500 Greatest Albums list, voted on by the biggest names in music—including Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift, to name a few. As expected, the new list caused a huge splash across the music and entertainment industries, sparking major conversation and debate around the list, and generating more than 125 million page views on RollingStone.com in the first month of launch.

In partnership with Abrams, Rolling Stone has created the definitive companion book to reflect the all–new 2020 list, telling the stories behind all 500 albums through incredible Rolling Stone photography, original album art, Rolling Stone’s unique critical commentary, breakout pieces on the making of key albums, archival interview content, and a celebrity introduction.

Rolling Stone was founded by publisher Jann S. Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason in 1967. It has a circulation of more than one million readers and widespread international circulation.

*200 color photographs

* 256 pages

* WIDTH: 11" - 279mm

* HEIGHT: 11" - 279mm

* Hardcover with jacket

PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER 2022

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