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)
- This is especially important for artists that have ISO codes in their name due to our horrific cataloging system
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’ Παραμαινομένη), 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!
12.26.24
Someone did *what* now.
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Yeah that doesn't surprise me. It happens on the ballots for presidential elections everywhere so... Some people just have no morals...
12.26.24
echoing the sentiment on this one..
Anywho, may the best death metal album win.
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I didn't do anything, leave me alone.
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Sir, this is a Sputnik's. Inb4 Cure, State Faults, Brat.
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Somehow read this as "thank you mom jeans"
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Only heard 7 2024 albums
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I could hmmm
Maybe I'll do that if you check Feats of Engineering
I can be bought
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Is it in the compilation section? I’m fairly certain it is. If so then yes.
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dumped too many points into an album that deff won't make the list oh well
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https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=633232&listid=171251
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Same, threw significant points to it
12.31.24
Don't forget
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