Is Rolling Stone Pushing Racier Covers?

    There's been more skin on the magazine's covers in the first half of 2014 than there was in all of 2013.

    Myles Tanzer
    by Myles Tanzer

    BuzzFeed Staff

    In less than a month, Rolling Stone has published two "naked" covers.

    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone

    In March, the magazine featured a shirtless Justin Bieber on its cover with the headline "Bad Boy."

    Rolling Stone

    That's three covers in the last six months where the model is at least half-nude.

    Compare that to the entirety of 2013, which only featured a near-naked Miley Cyrus — and a semi shirtless Johnny Depp, if you wanted to be prude about it.

    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone

    And 2012 only featured the perpetually shirtless Rick Ross.

    Rolling Stone

    Similarly, 2011's only semi-naked cover model was rapper Lil Wayne.

    Perhaps these covers are a return the state of things in 2010, the magazine's most shirtless year by a wide margin.

    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone

    Rolling Stone declined to comment for this story.