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#185 - Alicia Keys "Alicia Keys was initially touted as a piano and songwriting prodigy, with pop impresario Clive Davis getting fully behind her when she was in her teens. Over the years, her voice only got stronger..." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#175 - Lana Del Rey "Her style hovers between glamor and candidness, her words at times delivered casually to emphasize that there’s a banality behind the melodrama." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#167 - Marc Anthony "It was 'Vivir Lo Nuestro,' a smoldering 1994 duet with La India, that heralded Nuyorican sonero Marc Anthony as the poster child for the end-of-the-century salsa revival." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#158 - Carrie Underwood "Carrie Underwood could’ve come out of American Idol and wound up a pop-cultural footnote like countless others. Instead, she’s one of country music’s most enduring modern stars..." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#141 - Christina Aguilera "Boasting the biggest voice of the Y2K teen-idol crop, Christina Aguilera was as much a soul powerhouse as she was a TRL staple early in her career..." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#136 - Lauryn Hill "One of the many reasons that Ms. Lauryn Hill is an icon is because her pipes are as pristine as her high-level bars." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#120 - Charlie Rich "Charlie Rich's slightly sandier tonality, and the fact that he sang jazz as adeptly as he did country and rockabilly, gave him his own highly individual tang." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#112 - Ozzy Osbourne "Ozzy Osborne doesn’t have what most people would call a good voice, but boy does he have a great one." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#110 - The Weeknd "The Weeknd's voice is the X factor that makes him one of the most influential acts of his generation: a high, lonesome clarion call cutting through the fog of the pop charts." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#102 - Taylor Swift "A decade ago, including Taylor Swift on this list would have been a controversial move, but recent releases like 'Folklore,' 'Evermore,' and 'Midnights' officially settled the argument." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#97 - Usher "While it could have been easy to pigeonhole him as just another smooth R&B heartthrob, each subsequent chapter of his career revealed new possibilities in his voice." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#86 - Michael Jackson "Michael Jackson’s best vocal moments thrived in their ability to transcend styles and transform expectations." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#77 - Bruce Springsteen "As a singer no less than a bandleader, Bruce Springsteen’s great gift is for dynamics. Whisper-to-a-scream is a big part of what he does — just listen to the second verse of 'Born to Run.'" The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#68 - Rihanna "An alto whose range spans three octaves, Rihanna isn’t just one of the biggest pop singers around: She’s one of the biggest voices, period." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#52 - Mick Jagger "Mick Jagger remains one of the most distinctive singers in rock history, whether he’s playing with fire, sympathizing with Satan, or just missing you." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#43 - Ariana Grande "With a whistle tone that rivals Mariah's and a voice that is intricate and honeyed across four octaves, she became one of the biggest stars of the 2010s—but there are layers to her genius." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#36 - Kurt Cobain "Kurt Cobain’s voice was a sound at war with itself: often harsh to the point of being grotesque but resolutely melodic even at its ugliest." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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#26 - Paul McCartney "Paul is a genius at so many things — songwriting, production, playing all the instruments but especially bass — that it’s no small claim that he may be a better singer than he is anything else." The 200 Greatest Singers, RANKED: rollingstone.com/music/music-li

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