Three Kanye West albums have made it on to the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine’s authoritative ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time’ list, placing him among the greats of popular music. The new ranking, which combines a 2003 list (updated in 2005) with a later survey of the 2000s, saw two Radiohead records join the elite club, while long-established names including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan also had albums added. Rolling Stone has published the list, along with details of the albums and several new recording histories based on first-hand accounts. The big beneficiary was US hip-hop star West, who saw 2005 album ‘Late Registration’, ‘The College Dropout’ (2004) and ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ (2010) make it to the top 500. Canadian band Arcade Fire’s Funeral is among the 30 additions, as is British act Arctic Monkeys for their 2005 hit ‘Whatever People Say I Am’, ‘That’s What I’m Not’. Radiohead features twice — for ‘Amnesiac’ (2001) and ‘In Rainbows’ (2007), Jay-Z is added for ‘The Black Album’ (2003), Lil Wayne makes it with ‘Tha Carter III’ (2008) and the late Amy Winehouse for ‘Back to Black’. The Beatles feature no less than four times in the first 10; at number one (‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’), three (‘Revolver’), five (‘Rubber Soul’) and 10 (‘The White Album’).
