Consistently rated as one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music, Mercury was voted second to Mariah Carey in MTV’s 22 Greatest Voices in Music.Additionally, in January 2009, Mercury was voted second to Robert Plant in a poll of the greatest voices in rock, on the digital radio station Planet Rock. In May 2009 a Classic Rock magazine poll saw Mercury voted the greatest singer in rock. In 2011 NME magazine readers voted Mercury second to Michael Jackson in the Greatest Singers Ever poll. In 2011 a Rolling Stone readers’ pick placed Mercury in second place of the magazine’s “Best Lead Singers of All Time.” In 2013 Gigwise readers named Mercury the best frontman ever.