The editorial team at the NME has named its "100 most influential artists in music today" and musical legends such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan didn’t even make the list!
Prince was at 20. The Clash, Joy Division, Blur, The Smiths didn’t make the Top Ten. Their reason for this being:
“These are acts whose influence is written in stone, the very bedrock of the form, but who aren’t necessarily directly informing the music being made today any more than Chaucer is influencing Buzzfeed.”
Here's the the Top 20 from NME’s list:
1. Radiohead
2. David Bowie
3. Kanye West
4. The White Stripes
5. The Strokes
6. The Flaming Lips
7. The Gun Club
8. Kate Bush
9. Nick Cave
10. The xx
11. The Smiths
12. The Breeders
13. Joy Division
14. The Clash
15. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
16. The Velvet Underground
17. Blur
18. Aaliyah
19. Neutral Milk Hotel
20. Prince
For the Full 100 you can go here
