Revamped leaderboard

Rolling Stone magazine published the first list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004, but then put the idea a bit on the sidelines. Now, 17 years later, they've decided it's time to give things a fresh start. They selected a new jury consisting of more than 250 musicians, producers, music journalists, critics and other music-related people and tasked them with choosing the 500 they thought were the best from a list of 4,000 tracks. The full list, complete with 30-second excerpts, can be viewed at magazine website, but here are just a few observations.

Of course, you're probably most interested in which song the jury thinks is the best. This is Respect recorded by Aretha Franklin in 1967. In second place is Fight The Power by the American hip-hop group Public Enemy, third is A change is gonna come, recorded in 1964 by Sam Cooke, fourth is Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan, and fifth is Nirvana with Smells like teen spirit.

The list, despite the fact that it covers only the English-speaking area, is quite interesting, as it includes more than half, or rather 254 songs, which were not in the old list. The order is also interesting, as the top 50 includes older artists such as Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, as well as younger artists such as Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Lorde.

Source: Rolling Stone

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