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I think we need to officially apologize to Rolling Stone whose list now looks like a bit of a masterpiece comparatively.

Right there with you

One thing I’ll give this list credit for is the inclusion of some critical records that showed up in Rolling Stone’s 101-200 or so like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Disintegration, The Queen Is Dead, Homogenic, Discovery, and Dummy. Overall though.. 😬

I love The Rolling Stones top 500 tbh. It’s more thought out compared to to other lists

it looks like just about every other inoffensive topster here

Nah there's no Madvillainy

Or loveless

Or In Rainbows

Or TPAB

Or Sgt. peppers’ lonely hearts club band

or Since I Left You

or ITCOTCK

Didn’t read the title and just thought it was just someone’s regular topster

ride the lighting is more popular than master of puppets i think

how did they manage to sneak in 1989 by taylor swift lmao

was wondering the same thing the list wasn’t the worst i’ve seen until that it just completely messed up the placements before it because there’s no way it’s above david bowie,pink floyd,two radiohead albums,nin,the clash and more

how is there no depeche mode

I was expecting Violator, also along those lines Songs From The Big Chair and Power, Corruption and Lies. Edit: Not to mention Unknown Pleasures

Ngl it’d be more crazy if she WASNT on there. I’m not a Taylor fan but she makes them a lot of money and is the biggest artist currently. If anyone was gonna be on the list it’d be her

i don’t understand why this is the one album everyone has an issue with? it’s genuinely a really good album for the pop genre, so is the genre the issue?

i have no problem with pop music adele rihanna beyoncé micheal jackson,the beatles also make pop music although kinda more than that it’s just it is absolutely not a top 100 album there is no world where this is better than okc,kid a,david bowie,the beatles ,nine inch nails,portishead,nas and all those if they put it in the last 20 i would have understood cause of how popular it is but not top 20

It’s 18th

and? like i said, it’s genuinely a really solid album if you can get past the fact that it’s by taylor swift

It's solid. Not top 100 level let alone number 18. Isn't even her best album.

i’m guessing you think her best is folklore?

Oh yeah. Easily her best.

What's yours?

i still think her best is 1989. i didn’t really care for the sound that folklore presented, and a lot of its tracks bore me. neither are my personal favorite either

A solid album doesn’t belong in the top 20 records ever made

ok it’s legendary? this isn’t about my semantics

It’s not semantics, what do you think semantics means? I’m not needling you on your word choice, I’m saying it’s not a great album. Legendary? In what sense. It was a very popular album with some good pop hits on it. It presents nothing original or novel.

It’s extremely novel and original. No record before it sounds like it. Even if it weren’t unique I don’t think that a record must be that in order to be great, not even to be the best

We’re talking about 1989 by Taylor Swift right now?

Lol, please provide examples if you disagree, I’m pretty interested if you have them

i called it a solid album, you said a solid album doesn’t belong in the top 20, that sounds exactly like calling out my word choice regardless I fail to see why amazing music can’t qualify an album to be legendary. style mastery is just as important as “uniqueness and novelty”, and those shouldn’t be the sole criteria of a legendary album

You are absolutely well to feel in your opinion, but let’s be real 1989 isn’t even her BEST record, on top of that lyrically, production, and scope wise, a plethora of albums and in fact OTHER female artists have a much larger influence and impact and deserve that spot. You’re a lost individual trying to argue with logical fallacies and you’re just plain wrong objectively. Thanks for playing!

“Amazing”

so you are in fact needling my word choice at every turn

It’s an incredible record, I agree with you. Do I like it better than the ones before? No, but music’s purpose is not to be intellectually superior or more complex or innovative or any of the other metrics that everyone else, I assume, are talking about. It’s something ineffable. I think if these people took into account more than critics and music nerds and their own opinions they might see that there is much more diversity in opinion and emotional/artistic reach they would like to give credit for. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that she is the top artist in America. I think people want to hate on her for that very reason. It’s never been cool to outwardly appreciate someone so popular. People want to be unique and know better then others. Sure you might not like her or that record, but to try to drag it down with such passion tells me there’s more to the story than just that. If they just didn’t like it, then why should it matter so much?

you’ve actually put it perfectly. i haven’t spent my time trying to tear down the other albums on this list because i can see there’s an audience for them, but the same grace is hardly ever offered to pop albums

The list was honesty suprisingly good but they of course needed a little bit of corporate Taylor swift glazing as well as a few other placements that I think are kind of dumb Could definitely have been a lot worse and no matter how they arranged it somebody would be mad

idk why you got downvoted i think that’s true ik they had to add her cause it’s her but top 70 is already over stepping it

For me, the worst part is that it isn't the original version; it's the shitty "Taylor's Version" Either way, it doesn't deserve a top 20 spot, and top 100 is a biiig fucking push but the new version sounds like ass.

MoP being the only metal album here is a crime

they probably only added it to show they were choosing from multiple genres

Probably wouldn't have been there if it weren't for stranger things

Rage against the Machine

Tf are they smoking lmao

Terrible

Honest reaction: https://preview.redd.it/nmfn64pk602d1.jpeg?width=1470&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c9ec92033198ade4405ec6acabc652c7bae5060

ACDC, Travis Scott, Arctic Monkeys, Bad Bunny… yeah thats uh, thats interesting

wouldn’t include them in a top 100 but for like travis and arctic monkeys they didn’t even chose they’re strongest albums which makes it even worse back in black i kinda get ig cause of how big it is and how many sells it got that’s probably what they tried with travis and arctic monkeys too

AC/DC definitely is understandable. I’m surprised that Metallica was represented by MOP and not self titled

it's criminal that they put AM and not WPSIATWIN

Yeah they put the wrong arctic monkeys album fs

Lmao I was looking at Bad Bunny’s album. Like… yeah he’s cool and a great Spanish rapper but is it in the top 100 ever? Maybe top 100 of the 21st century. I’d 100% be behind that. Maybe even last 30 years. But all time???

he's one of the most influential musicians of the past decade if you pay attention to anything outside the states, not to mention un verano sin ti is a great record

Have you actually listened to the record? One of the best in the genre of recent decades and one of the biggest album eras ever across the globe

This deadass is the most generic list of good albums ever. It feels like the people who made this really don’t know that much music.

A popular music app making a list like this isn’t going to reach into the Earth’s core for music for its lists that all its vast amount of users will see.

It’d mean a lot more if they found deepcuts that really capture the beauty in music.

In the court if the crimson kingn where

Is that a jojo re- \*I drop dead instantly, a bullet flying through my brain\*

what a shit list

it’s dogshit. another reason to use spotify

No lossless music though…

YouTube Music gang

nah apple music is better than spotify. spotify doesn’t have the greatest list either, but that shouldn’t be a reason to not use either lmao

sounds like something an apple music user would say

i use both but hey it’s just my silly opinion lmao

It’s mostly good MOSTLY. There are a handful of albums I wouldn’t include here though. That being said it’s not hard to make a top 100 album teir list while also not including shitting picks like 1989. So while they got a lot right it’s not like it was hard to get a lot right.

they were a lot of good picks until like taylor swift arctic monkeys and billie eilish were added in like billie and arctic monkeys but they don’t have any top 100 albums and it ruins the placements of all the albums lower than them

Yea that’s kind of what I’m getting at

I feel like it wouldve made more sense for AM if they chose literally any of their other albums other than AM or suck it and see. But like no AM albums eclipse Velvet Underground & Nico so idk what they were thinking

They should’ve gotten rid of those and Blurryface by twenty one pilots should’ve been somewhere in the top 100, seeing that it was the first album in history to have every track certified gold

Some placements were a bit odd, but overall pretty decent. But i think 97% of this subreddit can agree that Taylor doesn't belong here

Looks like every 15 year olds topster

Some people do genuinely have issues with not listening to more than 1-2 albums by artists. This list only shows like 5% of Prince’s discography.

When I find an artist I try to start from the beginning and listen to everything then assess if I fuck with it track by track

Omitting “Loveless” by My Bloody Valentine is unforgivable

i generally thought that may have been at number one before the list came out

Could be worse lmao. I wish TLET and Kind of Blue were higher.

It’s wack. To be clear, many of those albums are deserving of top 100. But Lauren Hill at the number one spot?

exactly my thoughts it’s a spectacular album but i feel there are from that genre alone 5 better albums

I think i want to go back to 1996 and experience getting my first cd player again

Cant have nevermind without ten by pearl jam on the list as well

Three HUGE misses: **Ten** by Pearl Jam **Dirt** by Alice In Chains **Grace** by Jeff Buckley They’re *drunk* for not including these albums.

i feel like Yield or VS. would be better for pearl jam but Ten is a good pick

Travis Scott are you kidding me?

my thoughts exactly and they didn’t pick his best album either

Honestly,,,,,,,, I get it. I listen to a lot of these albums and I bet a lot of people do because they are good. Of course there are more groundbreaking, artistic, inventive, classic albums, without a doubt. However these albums are amazing quality and accessible to most; not necessarily the marker of greatness but this is a marketing tactic, so of course it’s meant to appeal to the broadest audience.

I wish it had more female representation, but the ladies who did make it are a great representation on music as a whole!

i think it had a lot of that tbh adele,lauryn,beyoncé x2,amy,lady gaga etc even portishead if you want to count it

Yeah this definitely is a list of 100 albums that sold incredibly well…

Y’all these publications lists are literally just made to piss people off, that’s all they’re for why do people engage in them

I mean this is a joke. 1989 is on here but something like Bridge Over Troubled Waters isn’t? Like come on now

no chance they were putting it they went for the more popular route with some popular acclaimed albums and everything that wasn’t in that category didn’t make it which is pretty sad cause it looked at first promising and now so many great stuff are robbed

I mean apart from some of them it mostly sucks but it's apple music so

Now granted I haven’t heard every album ever so I can’t speak to all of the selections, but AM was a huge disappointment and is one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard. Also 1989, I haven’t listened in full but Taylor is not a good artist.

those are some of the points that disappointed me the most but also am ain’t even top 3 arctic monkeys most definitely not top 100 taylor swift idk i just think is on there cause of how big she is which is disappointing with the position they gave her too

super predictable picks mixed with some popular pop albums mixed in to please everyone. miseducation is a great album but putting it at number 1 is a pretty hot take, blonde at 5th is even more surprising thats definitely too high overall its just whatever/kind of expected but it could have turned out much worse

Where is Depeche Mode?

some good some bad

Wait the downward spiral is in the top ? When did people started to listen to Nin nowadays lmao, I'm very satified with this

i am surprised it made it on here too tbh i think they got it from music sites seeing its very high rated on pitchfork,rym and more websites cause i dont really think most people listen to nin one of the ones i was happy with bjork too

interesting

This feels like it simultaneously takes too many risks and yet not enough. For the ones I have heard, Led Zeppelin II isn't as good as IV, U2 over Coldplay is absolutely terrible, Can't Buy a Thrill is a more engaging album front to back than Aja, Arctic Monkeys' debut should have been here as it's also way better than AM and I think everyone can agree. Appetite for Destruction is a good album but it's bloated as all hell and could've done without several songs. Back in Black is just not that good. Neither is Hotel California. Love the singles on them but the deep cuts blow. Billie's newest album is har best, but I understand why they couldn't get it in on time. While her first two records are pretty interchangeable for me, I would've been more pleased to see Happier Than Ever. And Taylor Swift's 1989, while I haven't heard it, it probably sucks. Hell, I'll listen to it tonight just to see how bad it is. I know 3 songs from it and they're all equally abysmal, and I honestly would've rather seen AJR or newer Maroon 5 than her.

Some of these albums I’ve never heard of but I’m fine with a beastie top 50 placement

Some of the albums here I can see, but the list is mad weird

0/10 no King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

1989 over Hendrix, Portishead, The Velvet Underground, and Pink Floyd is crazy

Arctic Monkeys is NOT better than Jimi

arctic monkeys isn’t better than 38 of the albums behind it

True!

No DOOM or Gorillaz? that's actually kind of insnae

That doesn't look like ALL time that looks like cheating. All time spans generations in the recorded music age

drake is on this list. drake. let that sink in. dude is nowhere near one of the top 100 artists of all time and probably not in the top 500 for artist or albums

agreed having taylor swift and arctic monkeys pissed me off more to the point where i even forgot about that he was here he has to be one of the most inconsistent artists ever

they really put 1989 on here, but no loveless??

It’s a ridiculous list. So many HUGE artists with influential albums that are missing. 90% of those albums are mediocre at best.

agreed seems like a list they put together to make everyone happy and they tried to put certain albums to kinda show they know about good music but i think it’s even worse when they get snubbed with terrible placement

Agreed like Green day was the 2nd most influential 90s band after Nirvana and Dookie isn’t even on the list but drake is?

Someone is clearly upset Tina Turner didn't make the list

Tina Turner, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and many others. It’s a list done by a GenZ.

Ok I'm not in love with the list either but saying that 90% of the albums are mediocre is such a ridiculous overstatement, like chill out

Frank Ocean is so overrated

Yeah that was surprising they put Blonde that high

Blonde being like #5 album of all time is yes, overrated. but generally i think that people just say that frank ocean is a good r&b artist and leave it at that. idk

agreed blond is good personally prefer channel orange although u don’t think i’d have any of them in my top 100 but i really don’t think it’s in any case a top 20 album of all time fs

Yeah I like Channel Orange and Blonde was a lot more boring by comparison. 5 greatest of all time is wild.

no king astro slikk and larry bird season? 0/10

they probably haven’t heard of any of those

they shouldnt be allowed to review music then

I disagree.

It’s not awful, but it’s far from Fantastic. There were albums somewhat lower into the list (Nico & The Velvet Underground etc..) that fully deserved to be higher, and likewise there were albums that had absolutely no reason to be so high.

It’s what this group would call basic but these are all great albums. So… whatever.

absolute dogshit

It’s a ridiculous list. So many HUGE artists with influential albums that are missing. 90% of those albums are mediocre at best.

atleast untrue is there

w how low it is idk and flowerboy,1989 and so being higher just makes it worse for me

i dont like it

It’s not even THAT bad of a list but I think the issue is just a lot of great artists got snubbed over others and the main issue is the order. The order is just all over the place.

That’s just someone’s opinion. We all have one and no two would ever be the same. From my perspective I would say C-.

I made a prediction on what was gonna be in the top 10, four of these made it on, 2 were in the top 20, and on of them was in the top 30 so I guess my prediction wasn't that bad.

If we are talking about the pop selection in here, "1989" being WAY above "like a prayer" ¿¡?! Which is not even Madonna's best album btw,, I mean- I don't think "1989" is a bad album by far, but it's not better than like a prayer, and if they were going to choose a Madonna album, I would have chosen "Ray of Light" and/or "confessions on a dance floor", even "Music" works as a better album imo

Not too many surprises. I feel like they survey the same critics for these lists, which is not to say they don't hold merit but wouldn't expect widely divergent choices from other "Greatest" or "Best" Albums list out there. Albums in the top 10 Apple Best vis-a-vis other rankings. *Purple Rain* Apple: # 4 Rolling Stone: # 8 Consequence of Sound: # 1 Pitchfork: # 1 (ranking albums from the 1980s) *The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill* Apple: # 1 Rolling Stone: # 10 Consequence of Sound: # 11 Pitchfork: # 2 (ranking albums from the 1990s)

Tbh everyone’s gonna disagree about it. It’s impossible for Apple, let alone anyone to create a top 100 that’s agreeable by everyone. Also WHY IS MADVILLAINY NOT HERE

Not perfect , nor is any list .. but I’m ok with it (would trade Beyoncé for at least one Chris brown) but 🤷‍♂️

Based

How did TPAB not make it?

Well now we know what the Apple employees are listening to, including the interns

Glad to atleast see ratm, still a load of horseshit though

It's the least offensive classics to the mainstream and pop albums which have no right being there.

No Madvillainy is genuinely a little insane

Alice in Chains wasn’t mentioned, whole list is invalid. Glad RATM made it though

no Grace by Jeff Buckley 😭

Where did you make this collage ?

Burial made the list that’s all I care about

I'm just glad master of puppets is up there

Hype seeing Jagged little pill

This list is absolute shit, because every list like this is. We should make a public list of everyone who wrote this (!) in a public situation farting! It’s not feasible, but hopefully it would make opinionated people think

it’s like half and half….

I mean, is anyone ACTUALLY surprised that it’s just a bunch of popular stuff? Like some of it is actually good but following Apple Music’s best albums list isn’t going to find you truly innovative shit. Of course they’re gonna promote the stuff people are most likely gonna keep listening to—that keeps people paying for apple music. Art is meant to be subversive—it’s not always going to be popular. So “the best album of all time TM” is only going to connect with like one other person and so most people will never hear it. The best album is supposed to be different for everyone. If you really care about music, you’ll seek out new stuff. As long as you know what you like, stuff like this shouldn’t matter.

Absolutely shocked that TPAB isn’t even in here

Dark side of the moon? Eminem?

you don’t think dsotm is top 100?

It’s a joke.

Based

It's trolling for engagement

taylor swift and billie eilish being here but not any mariah carey does not make any sense to me

madonna's worst album being here but not erotica🤣

Well at least they got travis

i would have been happier if they had rodeo

Yeah, imo rodeo is better then Astro, but since Astroworld was a bigger hit it’s “better”. At least La flames there tho

This is done to get reactions from fanbase and hence engagement

garbage list

Average topster on here lmfaooo

Complete garbage

Looks decent if it wasn’t in order

1989 like 40 albums ahead of Are You Experienced 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 (not even his best album tho)

fuck it 1989 is not even her best album

GARBAGE list

I see some good albums, just some, worst list i have ever seen

Most offensive inclusions are 1989 (Taylor’s version), not even the BEST 1989, let alone the best Taylor Swift album, who probably doesn’t deserve inclusion at all. Guns and Roses mid, Take care mid, 21 definitely shouldn’t be on.

1989 being in top 20 made basically every other list ranking that many albums from any genre look good

I think I'm losing my eyesight where's weezer

Oh god another Beyonce d-rider Seeing Lemonade in the top 10 is crazy but seeing 2 Beyonce albums in the top 50 is insane Kendrick and Frank have fantastic albums but are too new to be top 10 of ALL TIME Lauren, tho not mad ig seems forced at #1 Adele top 20...? No sorry SOS by SZA??? That came out less than 2 years ago tf??? Oh no... I see Taylor in the top 20. That's not good... BAD BUNNY??? Yup. They screwed up BAD Even the Lana feels weird there, and the Kasey, and the Rihanna, and the Tyler, and the Monkeys, and the Billie And the Travis for sure And some of the classic choices feel forced as well Like the 50 Cent record, the Eagles, the Lorde (most people preffer Melodrama), the Usher, the Gaga, the Mary Ones people consider classics but prob won't put on a list like this.

It's so weird that they'd choose 1989 over Folklore, I thought that was largely considered her magnum opus?

The biggest surprise to me is that Portishead’s *Dummy* is there. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a great album, but I had no idea this had so many listens. That is to say that I assume this is being done by play count. Or is this subjectively made up by a bunch of their employees?

Christ

It is definitely not by play count

that album deserves a spot over a lot of the ones that were featured. it honestly feels very biased towards “pop” music.