100 Legendary Singers Of All Time

There's something a bout a voice that's personal, not unlike the particular odor or shape of a given human body. Summoned through belly, hammered into form by the throat, given propulsion by bellows of lungs, teased into final form by tongue and lips, a vocal is a kind of audible kiss, a blurted confession, a soul-burp you really can't keep from issuing as you make your way through the material world. How helplessly candid! How appalling!

Contrary to anything you've heard, the ability to actually carry a tune is in no regard a disability in becoming a rock & roll singer, only a mild disadvantage. Conversely, nothing in the vocal limitations of a Lou Reed guarantees a "Pale Blue Eyes" every time out, any more than singing as crazy-clumsy as Tom Waits guarantees a "Downtown Train." Yet there's a certain time-tested sturdiness to the lowchops approach forged by touchstone figures like Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison and Jonathan Richman, one that helps define rock & roll singing.

(This is an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem's introduction to the Greatest Singers of All Time feature in the November 27, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone )

So here is the list of 100 Legendary Singers Of All Time. The list was updated by VH-1 in 2011 and has been ranking since 1998 as a tribute to the great music legends. 
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1.	The Beatles	51.	Billy Joel
2.	Michael Jackson	52.	Beyoncé
3.	Led Zeppelin	53.	Little Richard
4.	Rolling Stones	54.	Public Enemy
5.	Bob Dylan	55.	Peter Gabriel
6.	Jimi Hendrix	56.	KISS
7.	Prince	57.	Iggy & The Stooges
8.	Elvis Presley	58.	Cheap Trick
9.	James Brown	59.	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
10.	Stevie Wonder	60.	Whitney Houston
11.	Bob Marley	61.	Cream
12.	David Bowie	62.	Genesis
13.	The Who	63.	Notorious B.I.G.
14.	Nirvana	64.	Talking Heads
15.	The Beach Boys	65.	The Doors
16.	Madonna	66.	Justin Timberlake
17.	Queen	67.	Coldplay
18.	Pink Floyd	68.	Otis Redding
19.	U2	69.	Tupac Shakur
20.	Marvin Gaye	70.	Def Leppard
21.	Bruce Springsteen	71.	R.E.M.
22.	The Clash	72.	Janis Joplin
23.	AC/DC	73.	Van Morrison
24.	The Velvet Underground	74.	The Cure
25.	Chuck Berry	75.	Rush
26.	Neil Young	76.	Run-D.M.C.
27.	Aretha Franklin	77.	Lynyrd Skynyrd
28.	Elton John	78.	Judas Priest
29.	Radiohead	79.	Eminem
30.	Aerosmith	80.	Mary J. Blige
31.	John Lennon	81.	ABBA
32.	Black Sabbath	82.	Steely Dan
33.	Guns N’ Roses	83.	Earth, Wind and Fire
34.	Tina Turner	84.	Curtis Mayfield
35.	Johnny Cash	85.	The Band
36.	Paul McCartney	86.	N.W.A.
37.	Fleetwood Mac	87.	George Michael
38.	Sly & The Family Stone	88.	Bee Gees
39.	The Kinks	89.	Beastie Boys
40.	The Police	90.	Elvis Costello
41.	Van Halen	91.	Green Day
42.	Metallica	92.	LL Cool J
43.	Ray Charles	93.	Pearl Jam
44.	Joni Mitchell	94.	Mariah Carey
45.	Al Green	95.	OutKast
46.	Ramones	96.	Journey
47.	Jay-Z	97.	Pretenders
48.	Rage Against The Machine	98.	Depeche Mode
49.	Parliament-Funkadelic	99	Hall & Oates
50.	Sade	100.	Alicia Keys