The Top 200 has some glaring omissions

There's nothing like a good list to get people riled up, and Rolling Stone has been doing just that with their latest ranked article.

The music publication has released their '200 Greatest Singers of All Time' list, ranking soul legend Aretha Franklin at #1 - but it has been causing quite a stir on social media, with many pointing out glaring omissions, such as the absence of the likes of Celine Dion in favour of singers like Jungkook from K-Pop band BTS.

In 2008, the same publication published a '100 Greatest Singers of All Time' list, but expanding it to 200 and changing the previous ranking wildly, in some cases (i.e. Michael Jackson from #23 in 2008 to #86 on the new list), has not gone down well.

However, there are two Irish names in the Top 200 - U2 frontman Bono comes in at #140, with Rolling Stone claiming "Since the early Eighties, Bono has pushed his voice to every extreme as he has approximated how to be a singer."

Belfast's own Van Morrison is listed at #37, noting that "To experience the height of Van Morrison’s vocal genius, you have to get beyond the words.

“Zero in on, say, the free-form back half of a 1974 performance of Listen to the Lion where he starts out with honeyed crooning and blissed-out humming, tries out around a dozen different cadences on the word ‘you’ and eventually lets fly with full-on grunts and groans."

The full list can be seen here, but see below for the Top 50:

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Whitney Houston
3. Sam Cooke
4. Billie Holiday
5. Mariah Carey
6. Ray Charles
7. Stevie Wonder
8. Beyonce
9. Otis Redding
10. Al Green
11. Little Richard
12. John Lennon
13. Patsy Cline
14. Freddie Mercury
15. Bob Dylan
16. Prince
17. Elvis Presley
18. Celia Cruz
19. Frank Sinatra
20. Marvin Gaye
21. Nina Simone
22. Adele
23. Smokey Robinson
24. George Jones
25. Mary J. Blige
26. Paul McCartney
27. Dolly Parton
28. Mahalia Jackson
29. Chaka Khan
30. Hank Williams
31. Luther Vandross
32. David Bowie
33. Bessie Smith
34. Thom Yorke
35. Dusty Springfield
36. Kurt Cobain
37. Van Morrison
38. Curtis Mayfield
39. Louis Armstrong
40. Aaliyah
41. Etta James
42. Teddy Pendergrass
43. Ariana Grande
44. James Brown
45. Ella Fitzgerald
46. Mavis Staples
47. Linda Ronstadt
48. Toni Braxton
49. Rod Stewart
50. Joni Mitchell