At the end of 1999, "Play" was voted the year's best album in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published in "The Village Voice". Christgau, the poll's supervisor, ranked it second best on his own year-end list. The following year, the album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance at the 42nd Grammy Awards. Since then, it has frequently been named one of the greatest albums of all-time; according to Acclaimed Music, it is the 316th most ranked record on critics' all-time lists. NPR named "Play" one of the 300 most important American records of the 20th century, as determined by the network's news and cultural programming staff, prominent critics, and scholars. It was also ranked number 341 on "Rolling Stone"s 2003 and 2012 lists of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and in 2005, a panel of recording industry pundits assembled by Channel 4 voted "Play" the 63rd-best album ever. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".