The 100 best singers of all time
The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time is a list published in 2008 by the American pop magazine Rolling Stone with what they consider to be the 100 best singers of all time. 99 of those listed come from English-speaking countries; the only exception is Björk , although she also sings her famous songs in English.
A selection can be found in the following list.
Emergence
The list was drawn up by a 179-person jury, whose members are either musicians or producers. In addition to the singers themselves, the corresponding songs were also published, which underlined the presence of the artists, so-called key tracks .
Places 1–25 on the list
- Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman , Respect , I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) , Think , Chain of Fools
- Ray Charles - What'd I Say , Pts. 1 & 2 , I Got a Woman , You Don't Know Me , Georgia on My Mind
- Elvis Presley - Mystery Train , Hound Dog , Suspicious Minds
- Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come , Bring It on Home to Me, You Send Me
- John Lennon - I Feel Fine , Strawberry Fields Forever , Imagine , Instant Karma!
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On , Let's Get It On , I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone , Lay Lady Lay , Visions of Johanna
- Otis Redding - (Sittin 'On) The Dock of the Bay , These Arms of Mine, Try a Little Tenderness
- Stevie Wonder - Superstition , Sir Duke , Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
- James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good) , Papa's Got a Brand New Bag , The Payback, Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
- Paul McCartney - Yesterday , Hey Jude , Let It Be , Maybe I'm Amazed
- Little Richard - Tutti Frutti , Good Golly Miss Molly, Long Tall Sally
- Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman , Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) , You Got It
- Al Green - Let's Stay Together , Love and Happiness, Tired of Being Alone
- Robert Plant - Dazed and Confused , Immigrant Song, Sea of Love
- Mick Jagger - Gimme Shelter , Sympathy for the Devil , (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- Tina Turner - Proud Mary , River Deep - Mountain High, What's Love Got to Do with It
- Freddie Mercury - We Are the Champions , Bohemian Rhapsody , We Will Rock You , The Show Must Go On
- Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry , Redemption Song , I Shot the Sheriff
- Smokey Robinson - The Tracks of My Tears, You've Really Got a Hold on Me (the Miracles), Cruisin '(solo)
- Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire , I Walk the Line , Folsom Prison Blues
- Etta James - At Last , Sunday Kind of Love, Tell Mama
- David Bowie - Life on Mars? , Fame, Space Oddity , Heroes
- Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl , Moondance , Tupelo Honey
- Michael Jackson - I Want You Back ( The Jackson Five ), Billie Jean , Man in the Mirror (solo)
See also
- The 100 greatest musicians of all time
- The 100 best guitarists of all time
- The 100 best drummers of all time
- The 100 best songwriters of all time
Web links
- 100 best singers on rollingstone.com
- Archive of the Rolling Stone site on Web.Archive ( Memento of June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )