Stankonia is a hip-hop album by OutKast, release by La Face Records (a subcorporation of Arista Records, BMG) on October 31, 2000. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart , selling over 530,000 copies the first week of its release. It was critically well-received, receiving high marks from publications such as Rolling Stone and The Onion. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and it was ranked 23 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". In 2003, the album was ranked number 359 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.