The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition

For the first time in 17 years, Rolling Stone Magazine completely remade list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped choose a brand-new list full of historic favorites, world-changing anthems, and new classics.

Nearly 4,000 songs received votes. Where the 2004 version of the list was dominated by early rock and soul, the new edition contains more hip-hop, modern country, indie rock, Latin pop, reggae, and R&B. More than half the songs here — 254 in all — weren’t present on the old list, including a third of the Top 100. The result is a more expansive, inclusive vision of pop, music that keeps rewriting its history with every beat.