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 | This image has been created during "DensityDesign Integrated Course Final Synthesis Studio" at Politecnico di Milano, organized by DensityDesign Research Lab in 2024. Credits goes to Anita Ruggiu |
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English: This is a comparison between the original 2003 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list made by the magazine Rolling Stone, and the updated 2020 list.
The original 2003 list was criticized for consisting mostly of works by white, male rock musicians and therefore, in an effort to include more women and people of color, the magazine updated it in 2020, thanks to a whole new jury of artists, music industry representatives, journalists and more. Still, the list was criticized. Is ranking art's greatness really possible? Despite these problems, the list can still tell us a lot about how greatness in music is perceived. This graph highlights the gender of the artists, gender of the voters from both rankings, and the decades in which these great albums were released. |
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The dataset used was found through the Tidy Tuesday project, which re-publishes an interesting dataset every week. This dataset was re-published on 05/07/2024: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/data/2024/2024-05-07/readme.md The original project is by The Pudding, and looks at what makes an album the greatest of all time, and shares the data they put together for the essay. Article by The Pudding: https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/ Full dataset: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_Tdnm7S1oo8R9UNtdCVIY7bYASmf_cvMynOJTpKuHA/edit?gid=1724246890#gid=1724246890 List of songs in the 2003 ranking: https://web.archive.org/web/20090307145059/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time/5 List of songs in the 2023 ranking (revision of the 2020 version): https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/arcade-fire-%EF%BB%BFfuneral-1062733/ Who voted for the 2020 ranking: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/voters-500-greatest-albums-list-1062225/ Voters of the 2003 ranking were found on a printed issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The Pudding is a digital publication by the data journalism studio Polygraph, that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. |
| Author | Anitoriggio |
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