Roll over Beatles. Lauryn Hill tops Apple Music’s new list of top 100 albums of all time.
Apple Music releases list of 10 greatest albums ever made
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Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” has been named the best album ever made, according to a new list released by Apple Music. And the rest of the top 10 shows a strong push toward hip-hop and R&B artists, and away from the classic rock titans that have long dominated similar canonical roundups.
Apple Music called Hill’s 1998 LP a “stunningly raw, profound look into the spiritual landscape not just of one of the era’s biggest stars, but of the era itself,” praising Hill for being a “once-in-a-generation talent whose inspiration and innovation can be heard through the decades.”
Hill’s album, her solo debut after reaching international success with The Fugees, won five Grammy Awards upon its initial release, setting a new record for the most Grammys won by a female artist in a single ceremony.
Rolling Stone’s top albums list (which positioned Hill’s album in 10th place) remained a predominately pre-Y2K zone. The 1990s were the most-represented decade overall, with 23 albums included. The oldest album on the list: Miles Davis’s 1959 “Kind of Blue.”
As for Bob Dylan, Beach Boys and Rolling Stones, their included albums ranked 14th (“Highway 61 Revisited”), 20th (“Pet Sounds”) and 53rd (“Exile on Main Street”).
The most-represented genre among the top 100, according to Apple Music’s own tags, is hip-hop; more than one-fifth of the list is made up of albums within that genre, compared to the 18% of albums tagged as rock, and the 16% filed under pop.
Those following Lamar’s beef with rapper Drake will note that the latter, while on the overall list of 100 albums, ranks much further down than his sparring partner — Drake’s 2011 album “Take Care” shows up in 47th place.
Swifties can rest easy that Taylor Swift made the list, landing in 18th place with “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”
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Source: cbsnews.com