CULTURETECHLENSRolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums
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Combined Graph record U-00300 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-L-0010. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Stored: list_type=ranking, issuer=Rolling Stone, first_held=2003 — all confirmed at the bar in a full tier-3 fetch. NPR's All Things Considered transcript, published by WCMU Public Media (fetched in full; transcript credited 'provided by NPR, Copyright NPR'), states: 'This week, Rolling Stone magazine updated its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and Marvin Gaye's 1971 record "What's Going On" landed at No. 1', describes a vote by 'more than 300 people, from journalists to industry veterans to Beyonce and Billie Eilish', and quotes Jon Dolan, identified as the reviews editor for Rolling Stone, in the subject's own voice: 'We originally did the list in 2003.' That directly establishes Rolling Stone as issuer, the list as a voted ranking, and 2003 as the original list year (stored as first_held). Corroborated in a second full fetch: Presto Music's companion-book page (prestomusic.com) states 'The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first established in 2003 and the lineup was updated in 2012... In 2020 Rolling Stone started from scratch with a completely new 500 Greatest Albums list'.
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Stored: list_type=ranking, issuer=Rolling Stone, first_held=2003 — all confirmed at the bar in a full tier-3 fetch. NPR's All Things Considered transcript, published by WCMU Public Media (fetched in full; transcript credited 'provided by NPR, Copyright NPR'), states: 'This week, Rolling Stone magazine updated its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and Marvin Gaye's 1971 record "What's Going On" landed at No.
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- https://www.wcmu.org/music/2020-09-25/rolling-stone-updates-its-list-of-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time (verification source · master store)
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Stored: list_type=ranking, issuer=Rolling Stone, first_held=2003 — all confirmed at the bar in a full tier-3 fetch. NPR's All Things Considered transcript, published by WCMU Public Media (fetched in full; transcript credited 'provided by NPR, Copyright NPR'), states: 'This week, Rolling Stone magazine updated its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and Marvin Gaye's 1971 record "What's Going On" landed at No. 1', describes a vote by 'more than 300 people, from journalists to industry veterans to Beyonce and Billie Eilish', and quotes Jon Dolan, identified as the reviews editor for Rolling Stone, in the subject's own voice: 'We originally did the list in 2003.' That directly establishes Rolling Stone as issuer, the list as a voted ranking, and 2003 as the original list year (stored as first_held). Corroborated in a second full fetch: Presto Music's companion-book page (prestomusic.com) states 'The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first established in 2003 and the lineup was updated in 2012... In 2020 Rolling Stone started from scratch with a completely new 500 Greatest Albums list'.
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