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Greetings, party people! Once again, it’s time for you to have your say: voting is now open for the Top 50 LPs (and 10 EPs, Live Albums, and Compilations) of 2024 community feature!

This will be the first second year we’re going to try to pull this off without the forums, and based on the… delightful feedback from last year about Google forms, we’re hoping this will be a smoother experience. Still no underscores, at least!

Ballots will be open until January 2nd, 11:59PM ET (-ish). For all intensive porpoises, please consider submitting your ballot earlier than that.


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 (and, if opting-in to the EP, Live Album, and Compilation ballot, exactly 3 in this category)
  • You are allotted 100 points to divvy up across your 10 LPs (30 points for the EP/Live Album/Compilation ballot)
    • Suggestion 1: just give 10 albums 10 points each and call it a day
    • Suggestion 2: give more points to your S-tier albums and then fewer points to your A-tier albums
  • The maximum number of points that can be assigned to any one LP is 30 (21 for EPs/Live Albums/Compilations)
  • The minimum number of points that can be assigned to any one LP and EP/Live Album/Compilation is 1
    • These are whole-number votes, so please do not worry about fractions, irrational numbers, or making me solve for X
  • Where an album is ranked (e.g., Position 1 vs. Position 10) on an individual ballot matters in the final calculations
  • The frequency in which an LP appears across the community ballots matters in the final calculations
  • Please do your best in entering artists and LPs as they are depicted in the database (e.g., Godspeed You! Black Emperor vs. GYBE or GY!BE or GYBE! or Godspeed!, etc.)
    • This is especially important for artists that have ISO codes in their name due to our horrific cataloging system
      • For example, Rhun (USA-ME) vs. Rhun or Rhun (USA)

I don’t know if this will be helpful at all, but based on last year’s feedback, I made a crappy ballot + calculator for you (we’ll use it next year if we’re still around)!

The biggest scoring headache last year wasn’t necessarily spelling or assigning an LP to an EP spot, but not being able to count to 10, 100, 3, or 30 for whatever reason. Please feel free to make your own calculator. I am sworn to carry your burdens.

We will work to ensure we capture all ballots accurately (particularly those with accent marks or non-Roman characters; e.g., Hoplites’ Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η), but please note that ballots will be disqualified if:

  • An LP ballot has fewer than 10 LPs on it (or fewer than 3 entries for the EP, Live Album, and Compilation ballot)
  • The total points assigned to an LP ballot do not add up to 100 (30 for the EP, Live Album, and Compilation ballot)
  • A non-2024 release is on a ballot
  • An EP, Live Album, or Compilation is placed on the LP ballot (or vice-versa)
  • More than one ballot is submitted per username (while you will have the ability to edit your ballots, we’re also OK with using your most-recent submission)
  • Anything that smells like bad faith (e.g., submitting a ballot for a deceased user, which was a real low point in 2023’s submissions — even more than the abysmal maths skills) or is not salvageable because we cannot, in good faith, figure out what the heck the voter is trying to convey to us

Ballot Links

  • Community’s Top 50 LPs of 2024: submissions are closed — results soon!
  • Community’s Top 10 EPs, Live Albums, and Compilations of 2024: submissions are closed — results soon!

    • Based on last year’s feedback, the form is only 2 pages: your username, then your ballot (instead of username, Rank 1, Rank 2, . . . . , Rank 10 for the LP ballot, etc.) so that you can scroll up and down instead of having to navigate forwards and backwards

Other Links and Call for Writers

The contributing writers coordinate the year-end write-ups, and there is always demand for assistance. If you’d like to pitch in to help this effort, please navigate to the Request Form available [here].

To read previous community features (where the artwork is still intact before one of our many server crashes killed previous entries), please feel free to visit below:

[2023], [2022], [2021], [2020], [2019]

And please feel free to campaign for what you want to see represented in the comments section below!

Happy holidays to you and yours, and wishing you all good luck and good health as we march on and look ahead to 2025.

We’ll see you around January 9th (-ish?) for the first chapter!





ScuroFantasma
12.26.24
“submitting a ballot for a deceased user, which was a real low point in 2023’s submissions”

Someone did *what* now.

ScuroFantasma
12.26.24
Not sure if it will just be a me issue, but the ballot link is informing me I do not have access and need to request it.

Frost15
12.26.24
“submitting a ballot for a deceased user, which was a real low point in 2023’s submissions”

Yeah that doesn't surprise me. It happens on the ballots for presidential elections everywhere so... Some people just have no morals...

Gnocchi
12.26.24
“submitting a ballot for a deceased user, which was a real low point in 2023’s submissions”

echoing the sentiment on this one..

Anywho, may the best death metal album win.

someone
12.26.24
"Someone did *what* now."

I didn't do anything, leave me alone.

kevbogz
12.26.24
WHIRR - RAW BLUE

NexCeleris
12.26.24
"Anywho, may the best death metal album win."

Sir, this is a Sputnik's. Inb4 Cure, State Faults, Brat.

Dedes
12.26.24
The best death metal album is State Faults

unclereich
12.26.24
You’re the man Jom!

SandwichBubble
12.26.24
I'd like to help with artwork editing again this year, if needed. Same email as always.

evilford
12.26.24
Im definitely not smart enough to process all the rules for this thing lol

Mort.
12.26.24
thank u mr joms

Feather
12.26.24
"thank u mr joms"

Somehow read this as "thank you mom jeans"

ArsMoriendi
12.26.24
Crap. I’m 3 albums shy of being able to vote

Only heard 7 2024 albums

JohnnyoftheWell
12.26.24
simply listen to two more albums and drop brat at #10 to spite the peons

Wildcardbitchesss
12.26.24
^sound advice

Wildcardbitchesss
12.26.24
and just give 30’s to the Foxing and Chelsea Wolfe albums, I’m tryna rig this bitch cause we all know state faults is getting number 1

ArsMoriendi
12.26.24
@Johnny:

I could hmmm

Maybe I'll do that if you check Feats of Engineering

I can be bought

TheSupernatural
12.27.24
Submitted for the first time in several years. Justice for State Faults after the staff list snub

RemedyForLove
12.27.24
State Faults' Children of the Moon is my favourite Album not only of this year, but maybe the last decade. easy 30 points

AlexKzillion
12.27.24
does the brat remix album count as a compilation?

AlexKzillion
12.27.24
and before anyone says anything... yes i am a shameless glazer

Demon of the Fall
12.27.24
I’ll be submitting mine on Monday but it will be top heavy. Nala, SUMAC and Defeated Sanity getting the majority of my allocation

kevbogz
12.27.24
WHIRR - RAW BLUE (30)

AsleepInTheBack
12.27.24
“does the brat remix album count as a compilation?”

Is it in the compilation section? I’m fairly certain it is. If so then yes.

Hawks
12.29.24
Submitted mine lets gooooo!!!

PistolPete
12.29.24
I voted GAWD u happy now??? Damn

PumpBoffBag
12.29.24
Lfg looking forward to these results. Do the right thing sput

BitterJalapenoJr
12.29.24
Just cast my ballot. Far too many things I hadn't heard enough times so just dished out 10 points each to 10 that I like without putting any focus on an order.

ArsMoriendi
12.29.24
voted!

dumped too many points into an album that deff won't make the list oh well

Feather
12.29.24
Does anyone remember the username of that statistics guy who would analyze Sputnik data in his lists?

ArsMoriendi
12.29.24
Macman but he had numbers at the end of his username that I don’t remember

Hawks
12.29.24
Made me think of TheAnalyzer lmao.

Feather
12.29.24
Yes, it was definitely Macman but I don’t remember the numbers…

Feather
12.29.24
Found him. Macman76.

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=633232&listid=171251

Faraudo
12.30.24
Voted! Lets see how this goes, I've got high expectations this year, fellas.

someone
12.30.24
gave brat high points to make this site extra gay. lets goo

Demon of the Fall
12.30.24
Voted. Blew 74% of my allocation on 3 albums. It was that kind of year I guess.

Faraudo
12.30.24
"gave brat high points to make this site extra gay. lets goo"

Same, threw significant points to it


SlothcoreSam
12.31.24
Voted.
Don't forget

BladeRunner
12.31.24
Remembered to participate this year. Let's goooooooooooooooo!

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