100 Greatest Artists of All Time

In 2004 — 50 years after Elvis Presley walked into Sun Studios and cut "That's All Right" — Rolling Stone celebrated rock & roll's first half-century in grand style, assembling a panel of 55 top musicians, writers and industry executives (everyone from Keith Richards to ?uestlove of the Roots) and asking them to pick the most influential artists of the rock & roll era. The resulting list of 100 artists, published in two issues of Rolling Stone in 2004 and 2005, and updated in 2011, is a broad survey of rock history, spanning Sixties heroes (the Beatles) and modern insurgents (Eminem), and touching on early pioneers (Chuck Berry) and the bluesmen who made it all possible (Howlin' Wolf). See bellow the list updated in 2011.

100 Greatest Artists of All Time

 By Rolling Stone Magazine

1. The Beatles
2. Bob Dylan
3. Elvis Presley
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Chuck Berry
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. James Brown
8. Little Richard
9. Aretha Franklin
10. Ray Charles
11. Bob Marley
12. The Beach Boys
13. Buddy Holly
14. Led Zeppelin
15. Stevie Wonder
16. Sam Cooke
17. Muddy Watters
18. Marvin Gaye
19. The Velvet Underground
20. Bo Diddley
21. Otis Redding
22. U2
23. Bruce Springsteen
24. Jerry Lee Lewis
25. Fats Domino
26. The Ramones
27. Prince
28. The Clash
29. The Who
30. Nirvana
31. Johnny Cash
32. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
33. The Everly Brothers
34. Neil Young
35. Michael Jackson
36. Madonna
37. Roy Orbison
38. John Lennon
39. David Bowie
40. Simon and Garfunkel
41. The Doors
42. Van Morrison
43. Sly and the Family Stone
44. Public Enemy
45. The Byrds
46. Janis Joplin
47. Patti Smith
48. Run-DMC
49. Elton John
50. The Band
51. Pink Floyd
52. Queen
53. The Allman Brothers Band
54. Howlin' Wolf
55. Eric Clapton
56. Dr. Dre
57. Grateful Dead
58. Parliament/Funkadelic
59. Aerosmith
60. Sex Pistols
61. Metallica
62. Joni Mitchell
63. Tina Turner
64. Phil Spector
65. The Kinks
66. Al Green
67. Cream
68. The Temptations
69. Jackie Wilson
70. The Police
71. Frank Zappa
72. AC/DC
73. Radiohead
74. Hank Williams
75. The Eagles
76. The Shirelles
77. Beastie Boys
78. The Stooges
79. The Four Tops
80. Elvis Costello
81. The Drifters
82. Creedance Clearwater Revival
83. Eminem
84. James Taylor
85. Black Sabbath
86. Tupac Shakur
87. Gram Parsons
88. Jay-Z
89. The Yardbirds
90. Carlos Santana
91. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
92. Guns N' Roses
93. Booker T. and the MG's
94. Nine Inch Nails
95. Lynyrd Skynyrd
96. Diana Ross and the Supremes
97. R.E.M.
98. Curtis Mayfield
99. Carl Perkins
100. Talking Heads