Greetings, friends!

It’s that time once again for you to have your say: voting is now open for the Top 50 LPs of 2023 community feature!

As in years past, we will also be including EPs/Live Albums/Compilations in a separate category.

This will be the first year we’re going to try to pull this off without the forums, so thank you for your patience in learning to love Google forms (where you no longer have to follow that complicated underscore system!).

Ballots will be open for approximately two weeks (a projected cut-off date of Thursday, December 28th around 11:59PM ET).

LP Ballot Rules

If you would like to submit an LP ballot, please review the guidelines before submitting your ballot officially (it’s not a race!):

• Your ballot must have exactly 10 LPs on it (please note that the ballot asks for the album name first and not the artist!)
• You are allotted 100 points to divvy up across your 10 LPs
  • Some users liked 10 albums equally, so they’ll assign 10 points to 10 LPs
  • Some users choose to assign more points to their favorite LPs on the year
  • The maximum number of points that can be assigned to any one LP is 30
  • The minimum number of points that can be assigned to any one LP is 1
  • These are whole-number votes, so do not worry about fractions or irrational numbers
• Where an album is ranked (e.g., Position 1 vs.

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