Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2005

Entertainment: Music Rolling Stone

#13 and #45 are various artists Missing * My Mourning Jacket (6) * The Magic Numbers (19) * Common (21) * The Hold Steady (28) * Amadou and Mariam (31) * The Go! Team (32) * Antony and the Johnsons (33) * The Perceptionists (36) * Dungen (38) * Keyshia Cole (41) * Living Things (42) * The Willowz (46) * Wide Right (47) * Stars (50)

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Vote RankingList Ranking  

5

1

Kanye West

Vocalist

61.07% (4286 of 7018 votes)

12

2

Rolling Stones

Musicians

33.90% (20 of 59 votes)

35

3

White Stripes

Musicians

0% (0 of 2 votes)

20

4

Fiona Apple

Vocalist

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

14

5

Bruce Springsteen

Vocalist

32.24% (49 of 152 votes)

25

6

My Morning Jacket

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

7

Beck

Vocalist

0% (0 of 5 votes)

32

8

Bright Eyes

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

31

9

Sufjan Stevens

Vocalist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

3

10

50 Cent

Vocalist

83.33% (15 of 18 votes)

13

11

M.I.A.

Vocalist

33.33% (2 of 6 votes)

36

12

Sleater-Kinney

Musicians

0% (0 of 2 votes)

28

14

Thelonious Monk

Musician

0% (0 of 1 votes)

30

15

Gorillaz

Musicians

0% (0 of 1 votes)

11

16

John Legend

Vocalist

37.01% (188 of 508 votes)

1

17

Van Morrison

Vocalist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

33

18

Kings of Leon

Musicians

0% (0 of 5 votes)

38

20

System of a Down

Musicians

0% (0 of 11 votes)

10

21

Common

Musician

37.50% (21 of 56 votes)

16

22

Madonna (Ciccone)

Vocalist

31.58% (54 of 171 votes)

7

23

Paul McCartney

Vocalist

59.24% (375 of 633 votes)

27

24

Mars Volta

Musicians

0% (0 of 3 votes)

2

25

Young Jeezy

Musician

100% (1 of 1 votes)

37

26

Queens of the Stone Age

Musicians

0% (0 of 5 votes)

17

27

Stevie Wonder

Musician

31.58% (18 of 57 votes)

34

28

The Hold Steady

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

29

Franz Ferdinand (Musicians)

Musicians

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

8

30

Foo Fighters

Musicians

54.01% (74 of 137 votes)

4

34

Paul Wall

Vocalist

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

22

35

LCD Soundsystem

Musicians

0% (0 of 1 votes)

15

37

Missy Elliott

Vocalist

32.20% (19 of 59 votes)

26

39

Annie

Vocalist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

18

40

Neil Young

Vocalist

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

21

41

Keyshia Cole

Vocalist

5.26% (1 of 19 votes)

6

43

Mariah Carey

Vocalist

60.12% (196 of 326 votes)

19

44

Daddy Yankee

Vocalist

11.11% (2 of 18 votes)

29

48

Kaiser Chiefs

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

49

Damian Marley

Vocalist

0% (0 of 0 votes)