Este ranking saldrá publicado en el número de enero de la revista Rolling Stone. Para la publicación norteamericana el mejor disco del 2012 es “Wrecking Ball” de Bruce Springsteen.
“Channel Orange” de Frank Ocean ocupa el puesto número dos seguido de "Blunderbuss" de Jack White y Tempest de Bob Dylan.
Estos son los mejores 50 álbumes de 2012 según la revista “Rolling Stone”:
01. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
02. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
03. Jack White – Blunderbuss
04. Bob Dylan – Tempest
05. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
06. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
07. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Here
08. Green Day – !Uno!
09. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
10. Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
11. Mumford & Sons – Babel
12. Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth
13. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
14. Best Coast – The Only Place
15. Dr. John – Locked Down
16. Cat Power – Sun
17. John Mayer – Born and Raised
18. Nas – Life is Good
19. Band Of Horses – Mirage Rock
20. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
21. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
22. Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
23. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
24. G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer
25. Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos
26. Django Django – Django Django
27. Gary Clark Jr. – Blak and Blu
28. Beach House – Bloom
29. Dave Matthews Band – Away From the World
30. Azealia Banks – 1991
31. Taylor Swift – Red
32. Hospitality – Hospitality
33. Grimes – Visions
34. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
35. Grizzly Bear – Shields
36. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
37. Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
38. Titus Andronicus – Local Business
39. Passion Pit – Gossamer
40. Escort – Escort
41. The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
42. Allo Darlin’ – Europe
43. fun. – Some Nights
44. Garbage – Not Your Kind of People
45. Rick Ross – Rich Forever
46. Muse – The 2nd Law
47. Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables
48. The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania
49. Amadou And Mariam – Folila
50. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan