Editing November Rain (section)

==Retrospective response==
"November Rain" was voted number one on the [[The Rock (New Zealand)|Rock 1000]] 2006, an annual countdown of the top 1,000 rock songs by New Zealand radio listeners. It was voted number two on the 2007 version, beaten by "[[Back in Black (song)|Back in Black]]" by [[AC/DC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.therock.net.nz/Music/tabid/68/articleID/478/Default.aspx|title=The Rock - New Zealand's rock radio station}}</ref> The song topped the "album tracks" section of a 1993 readers' poll in GN'R [[fanzine]] ''Controversy'', beating "[[Coma (Guns N' Roses song)|Coma]]". The top ten was completed by "[[Estranged (song)|Estranged]]", "[[Civil War (song)|Civil War]]", "[[Paradise City]]", "[[Sweet Child o' Mine]]", "[[Don't Cry]]", "[[Welcome to the Jungle]]", "[[Patience (Guns N' Roses song)|Patience]]" and "[[Mr. Brownstone]]".<ref>''Controversy'' #6, p8, 1993</ref>

The song placed number 140 on [[Pitchfork (website)|''Pitchfork'']]'s "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 150-101|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7850-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-150-101/2/|access-date=May 26, 2021|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|page=2|archive-date=October 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028133735/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7850-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-150-101/2/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In Chile, the song placed at number 73 on Chilean radio [[Rock & Pop (Chilean radio)|Rock & Pop]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockandpop.cl/rp20-semana4/guns-n-roses-november-rain/|title=Guns N Roses - November Rain — Rock&Pop|date=December 24, 2012}}</ref> In 2017, ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' ranked the song number nine on their list of the 15 greatest Guns N' Roses songs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/guns-n-roses/the-15-best-guns-n-roses-songs/|title=The 15 Best Guns N' Roses Songs|first=Bryan|last=Rolli|website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|date=September 27, 2017|access-date=April 27, 2022}}</ref> and in 2020, ''[[Kerrang!|Kerrang]]'' ranked the song number six on their list of the 20 greatest Guns N' Roses songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-20-greatest-guns-n-roses-songs-ranked|title=The 20 greatest Guns N' Roses songs – ranked|first=Sam|last=Law|website=[[Kerrang!|Kerrang]]|date=October 8, 2020|access-date=April 27, 2022}}</ref>

[[NPR]] described the song as "one of the ultimate [[hard-rock]] [[power ballad]]s",<ref name="npr"/> while [[VH1]] added that the song "is the sprawling, cosmic-reaching, just-so-insane-it-works hard rock epic toward which every previous single-track hard rock epic had led and from which every subsequent single-track hard rock epic has emerged".<ref>{{cite web|last=McPadden|first=Mike|date=July 23, 2015|title=Slash Turns 50: Rock With His 10 Greatest Guitar Moments|url=https://www.vh1.com/news/cjpfdj/slash-best-guitar-moments|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817221705/https://www.vh1.com/news/cjpfdj/slash-best-guitar-moments|url-status=live|archive-date=August 17, 2022|access-date=May 26, 2021|website=[[VH1]]}}</ref> ''Glide Magazine'' named the song at second in their list of "Favorite [[glam metal|Hair-Metal]] Power Ballads".<ref name="glide">{{cite web|last=Bernstein|first=Scott|date=January 4, 2007|title=THE B List: Favorite Hair-Metal Power Ballads|url=https://glidemagazine.com/133653/the-b-list-favorite-hair-metal-power-ballads/|access-date=February 24, 2021|website=Glide Magazine}}</ref>

As of October 2024, November Rain is the most viewed song on YouTube released in the 1990s.