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Jun 30, 2011 - 7:13PM

30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

CLUES TO THE CLUES

CD 1 Antlers – Burst - Apart = The Antlers ´Burst Apart´
CD 2 Morning – Jacket - Circuit = My Morning Jacket ´Circuital´
CD 3 Good (Bon) – 2 (Second, 2 Times) – Winter (Hiver) = Bon Iver ´Bon Iver´
CD 4 Arctic (Bear) – Suck – Monkey = Arctic Monkeys ´Suck It And See´
CD 5 Fucked Up – Comes To Life – David (Beckham) = Fucked Up ´David Comes To Life´

THE WINNER

The Highest New Entry is Bon Iver´s ´Bon Iver´ at # 02.
Congratulations to Zalojo, who guessed the exact position.
Let me know by mail, which CD you would like.

THE MEGA-CRITIC-CHART

The current position is followed by last month´s position in brackets, then the adjusted score, followed by the average rating and the number of reviews in brackets.
The scores after the title are the individual positions/adjusted scores for Europe, the UK and the US, followed by the current Metacritic score.

NEW ENTRY
PEAK POSITION

001. (001 ) 73,037790 – 83,02 (24 ) PJ Harvey ´Let England Shake´
EU : 002. 70,45 – UK : 001. 79,55 – US : 007. 71,25 – MC : 86

002. (000 ) 70,639534 – 79,58 (24 ) Bon Iver ´ Bon Iver´
EU : 005. 69,24 – UK : 004. 73,86 – US : 012. 69,91 – MC : 86

003. (004 ) 70,143312 – 80,12 (21 ) tUnE-yArDs ´WHOKILL´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 002. 74,49 – US : 001. 74,64 – MC : 86

004. (002 ) 70,030864 – 79,50 (22 ) Lykke Li ´Wounded Rhymes´
EU : 004. 70,15 – UK : 046. 67,05 – US : 003. 72,45 – MC : 83

005. (003 ) 69,840116 – 78,44 (24 ) James Blake ´James Blake´
EU : 003. 70,17 – UK : 00000000 – US : 002. 72,75 – MC : 81

006. (014 ) 69,595070 – 80,92 (18 ) Destroyer ´Kaputt´
EU : 012. 67,08 – UK : 007. 71,59 – US : 012. 69,91 – MC : 84

007. (005 ) 69,047619 – 79,47 (19 ) Bill Callahan ´Apocalypse´
EU : 001. 72,28 – UK : 00000000 – US : 024. 68,04 – MC : 75

008. (006 ) 69,029605 – 78,93 (20 ) Low ´C´Mon´
EU : 007. 68,11 – UK : 016. 70,41 – US : 019. 68,70 – MC : 80

009. (007 ) 68,926553 – 76,80 (26 ) Fleet Foxes ´Helplessness Blues´
EU : 008. 67,85 – UK : 028. 68,37 – US : 008. 70,80 – MC : 85

010. (008 ) 68,590116 – 76,65 (24 ) Radiohead ´The King Of Limbs´
EU : 014. 66,59 – UK : 007. 71,59 – US : 015. 69,02 – MC : 80

011. (009 ) 68,435374 – 78,53 (19 ) Smith Westerns ´Dye It Blonde´
EU : 041. 63,09 – UK : 007. 71,59 – US : 009. 70,45 – MC : 81

012. (011 ) 68,384353 – 78,45 (19 ) Wild Beasts ´Smother´
EU : 018. 65,34 – UK : 002. 74,49 – US : 00000000 – MC : 85

013. (010 ) 68,270348 – 76,19 (24 ) Iron & Wine ´Kiss Each Other Clean´
EU : 015. 66,49 – UK : 007. 71,59 – US : 026. 67,95 – MC : 77

014. (000 ) 68,063380 – 78,50 (18 ) The Antlers ´Burst Apart´
EU : 024. 64,41 – UK : 011. 71,43 – US : 027. 67,84 – MC : 81

014. (012 ) 68,063380 – 78,50 (18 ) Gang Gang Dance ´Eye Contact´
EU : 039. 63,19 – UK : 033. 68,18 – US : 003. 72,45 – MC : 83

016. (000 ) 67,763157 – 76,46 (14 ) Fucked Up ´David Comes To Life´
EU : 049. 62,47 – UK : 011. 71,43 – US : 016. 69,02 – MC : 86

017. (013 ) 67,401574 – 79,47 (15 ) Elbow ´Build A Rocket Boys!´
EU : 019. 65,24 – UK : 011. 71,43 – US : 00000000 – MC : 83

018. (015 ) 66,809210 – 75,55 (20 ) Okkervil River ´I Am Very Far´
EU : 026. 64,32 – UK : 033. 68,18 – US : 025. 68,04 – MC : 80

019. (019 ) 66,688034 – 80,04 (13 ) Josh T. Pearson ´Last Of The Country Gentlemen´
EU : 006. 68,14 – UK : 006. 71,80 – US : 00000000 – MC : 77

020. (017 ) 66,628289 – 75,28 (20 ) Kurt Vile ´Smoke Ring For My Halo´
EU : 032. 63,80 – UK : 046. 67,05 – US : 017. 68,93 – MC : 82

021. (016 ) 66,467065 – 73,91 (23 ) TV On The Radio ´Nine Types Of Light´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 028. 68,37 - US : 011. 70,27 – MC : 82

022. (000 ) 66,404320 – 74,16 (22 ) My Morning Jacket ´Circuital´
EU : 009. 67,80 – UK : 00000000 – US : 049. 65,54 – MC : 77

023. (018 ) 66,257485 – 73,61 (23 ) Panda Bear ´Tomboy´
EU : 013. 66,86 – UK : 00000000 – US : 042. 66,43 – MC : 77

024. (000 ) 65,688622 – 72,78 (23 ) Arctic Monkeys ´Suck It And See´
EU : 028. 64,22 – UK : 043. 67,35 – US : 041. 66,46 – MC : 74

025. (020 ) 65,449101 – 72,44 (23 ) Beastie Boys ´Hot Sauce Committee Part 2´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 017. 69,39 – US : 030. 67,39 – MC : 84

026. (044 ) 65,327102 – 79,82 (11 ) Julianna Barwick ´The Magic Place´
EU : 033. 63,65 – UK : 044. 67,24 – US : 050. 65,49 – MC : 82

027. (000 ) 65,184426 – 76,43 (14 ) Black Lips ´Arabia Mountain´
EU : 021. 64,76 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 77

028. (021 ) 65,037878 – 74,81 (16 ) Explosions In The Sky ´Take Care, Take Care, Take Care´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 033. 68,18 – US : 028. 67,59 – MC : 77

029. (022 ) 65,017605 – 73,69 (18 ) Drive-By Truckers ´Go-Go Boots´
EU : 011. 67,35 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 78

030. (000 ) 65,000000 – 82,33 (09 ) Shabazz Palaces ´Black Up´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 005. 71,85 – MC : 90

031. (026 ) 64,914965 – 73,08 (19 ) Tyler The Creator ´Goblin´
EU : 025. 64,34 – UK : 00000000 – US : 021. 68,30 – MC : 73

032. (024 ) 64,846938 – 72,97 (19 ) Mogwai ´Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will´
EU : 037. 63,29 – UK : 023. 69,23 – US : 00000000 – MC : 77

033. (036 ) 64,843750 – 77,71 (12 ) EMA ´Past Lives Martyred Saints´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 018. 69,32 – US : 034. 66,94 – MC : 00

034. (027 ) 64,795081 – 75,79 (14 ) The Unthanks ´Last´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 018. 69,32 – US : 00000000 – MC : 81

035. (025 ) 64,696261 – 78,59 (11 ) Nicolas Jaar ´Space Is Only Noise´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 031. 67,36 – MC : 86

036. (000 ) 64,687500 – 72,33 (20 ) Battles ´Gloss Drop´
EU : 037. 63,29 – UK : 00000000 – US : 036. 66,85 – MC : 78

037. (028 ) 64,559859 – 72,97 (18 ) J Mascis ´Several Shades Of Why´
EU : 010. 67,62 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 78

038. (029 ) 64,545454 – 74,00 (16 ) The Mountain Goats ´All Eternals Deck´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 009. 70,45 – MC : 77

039. (030 ) 64,527559 – 74,60 (15 ) Wire ´Red Barked Tree´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 018. 69,32 – US : 00000000 – MC : 77

040. (023 ) 64,429012 – 71,25 (22 ) Thurston Moore ´Demolished Thoughts´
EU : 050. 62,43 – UK : 018. 69,32 – US : 00000000 – MC : 78

041. (031 ) 64,407894 – 71,90 (20 ) The Kills ´Blood Pressures´
EU : 034. 63,63 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 76

042. (032 ) 64,233576 – 72,94 (17 ) Cass McCombs ´Wit´s End´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 –US : 046. 65,69 – MC : 74

043. (033 ) 64,201030 – 80,61 (09 ) Tim Hecker ´Ravedeath, 1972´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 014. 70,59 – US : 00000000 – MC : 86

044. (038 ) 64,153543 – 73,97 (15 ) Paul Simon ´So Beautiful Or So What´
EU : 017. 65,52 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 85

045. (040 ) 64,081196 – 75,35 (13 ) Metronomy ´The English Riviera´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 004. 73,86 – US : 00000000 – MC . 77

046. (034 ) 64,058641 – 70,71 (22 ) Foo Fighters ´Wasting Light´
EU : 046. 62,74 – UK : 00000000 – US : 033. 67,32 – MC : 78

047. (035 ) 64,015748 – 73,73 (15 ) Cat´s Eyes ´Cat´s Eyes´
EU : 043. 62,90 – UK : 028. 68,37 – US : 00000000 – MC : 00

048. (037 ) 63,700787 – 73,20 (15 ) Austra ´Feel It Break´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 028. 68,37 – US : 00000000 – MC : 76

049. (039 ) 63,637724 – 69,34 (22 ) Bright Eyes ´The People´s Key´
EU : 022. 64,59 – UK : 018. 69,32 – US : 00000000 – MC : 70

050. (041 ) 63,520408 – 70,92 (19 ) Yuck ´Yuck´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 018. 68,92 – MC : 81

THE BUBBLERS

053. (059 ) 63,430656 – 71,65 (17 ) Kate Bush ´Director´s Cut´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 046. 67,95 – US : 00000000 – MC : 80

060. (000 ) 63,018292 – 85,58 (06 ) Gillian Welch ´The Harrow And The Harvest´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 026. 68,97 – US : 00000000 – MC : 82

067. (000 ) 62,549019 – 75,60 (10 ) Chad VanGaalen ´Diaper Island´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 79

073. (000 ) 62,254901 - 75,00 (10 ) The Felice Brothers ´Celebration, Florida´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 77

075. (000 ) 62,146739 – 77,94 (08 ) Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 ´From Africa With Fury : Rise´
EU : 029. 64,29 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 00

078. (000 ) 61,936274 – 74,35 (10 ) Wu Lyf ´Go Tell Fire To The Mountain´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 039. 67,95 – US : 00000000 – MC : 80

082. (086 ) 61,688034 – 71,04 (13 ) Planningtorock ´W´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 72

091. (000 ) 61,071428 – 70,67 (12 ) White Denim ´D´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 033. 68,18 – US : 00000000 –MC : 79

095. (000 ) 60,975609 – 80,00 (06 ) Ford & Lopatin ´Channel Pressure´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 022. 68,29 – MC : 82

101. (000 ) 60,637254 – 71,70 (10 ) John Maus ´We Must Become The Pitiless Censors´
EU : 00000000 – UK : 00000000 – US : 00000000 – MC : 00

FURTHER EU-POSITIONS

016. (022 ) 66,17 Death Cab For Cutie ´Codes And Keys´
023. (021 ) 64,43 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart ´Belong´
027. (023 ) 64,31 The Low Anthem ´Smart Flesh´
030. (024 ) 64,15 Rumer ´Seasons Of My Soul´ (2010 )
031. (025 ) 63,93 The Haunted ´Unseen´
035. (027 ) 63,51 Raveonettes ´Raven In The Grave´
036. (029 ) 63,35 Twilight Singers ´Dynamite Steps´
039. (000 ) 63,14 In Flames ´Sounds Of A Playground Fading´
041. (032 ) 62,92 Bibio ´Mind Bokeh´
043. (034 ) 62,78 Peter Bjorn And John ´Gimme Some´
044. (040 ) 62,77 Frankie & The Heartstrings ´Hunger´
046. (036 ) 62,59 Wanda Jackson ´The Party Ain´t Over´
047. (037 ) 62,46 The Vaccines ´What Did You Expect From The Vaccines ?´

FURTHER UK-POSITIONS

015. (012 ) 70,46 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XXX ´We´re New Here´
023. (018 ) 69,23 …And You Will Know Us … ´Tao Of The Dead´
025. (020 ) 69,12 PS I Love You ´Meet Me At The Muster Station´
026. (021 ) 68,97 Earth ´Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1´
028. (022 ) 68,37 Hannah Peel ´Broken Wave´
033. (027 ) 68,18 Suuns ´Zeroes QC´ (2010 )
033. (027 ) 68,18 The Joy Formidable ´The Big Roar´
039. (032 ) 67,95 Bibio ´Mind Bokeh´
039. (032 ) 67,95 Sarabeth Tucek ´Get Well Soon´
039. (032 ) 67,95 Friendly Fires ´Pala´
044. (000 ) 67,24 Johann Johannsson ´The Miner´s Hymn´
046. (038 ) 67,05 Katy B ´On A Mission´
046. (038 ) 67,05 Crystal Stilts ´In Love With Oblivion´

FURTHER US-POSITIONS

006. (005 ) 71,46 Big K.R.I.T. ´Return Of 4Eva´
014. (012 ) 69,17 Weeknd ´House Of Balloons´
020. (017 ) 68,47 Liturgy ´Aesthethica´
023. (019 ) 68,24 Braids ´Native Speaker´
029. (025 ) 67,45 Ghostface Killah ´Apollo Kids´ (2010 )
031. (026 ) 67,36 Faust ´Something Dirty´
035. (030 ) 66,86 Deerhoof ´Deerhoof Vs. Evil´
036. (031 ) 66,85 Akron/Family ´S/T II : The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT´
036. (031 ) 66,85 Times New Viking ´Dancer Equired´
039. (033 ) 66,67 Delicate Steve ´Wondervisions´
040. (034 ) 66,61 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart ´Belong´
043. (044 ) 66,16 Toro Y Moi ´Underneath The Pine´
044. (036 ) 66,07 Cut Copy ´Zonoscope´
045. (037 ) 65,83 Demdike Stare ´Tryptich´
046. (000 ) 65,69 Beyoncé ´4´
048. (040 ) 65,56 Psychic Paramount ´II´

THE HIGHEST NEW ENTRIES

# 02

# 14

# 16

# 22

# 24

EPILOGUE

This ist the last Mega-Critic-Chart.
For three and a half years I was happy to provide the AMF comunity with the Mega-Critic-Chart.
It was labor-intensive work, but I really liked to do it.
There are some turns in my private life now, that don´t allow me to go on with my posts.
With a heavy heart I will put the final dot.

Thank you for following the Mega-Critic-Chart all along.
A big farewell to you all !!!

Jun 30th, 2011 - 7:13 PM

antonius

Jun 30, 2011 - 7:58PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Very sad to see the chart go! Many thanks for all your work the last years. I hope the change in your private life is a positive one!

Jun 30th, 2011 - 7:58 PM

Dan M

Jun 30, 2011 - 8:12PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

There goes my favourite source for discovering good new music. Well, I guess all good things must come to an end. Thanks for 3 and a half years of one of the best threads in the universe, Stefan!

Harold Wexler

Jun 30, 2011 - 8:33PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thanks for all the hard work over the years, Stefan!

BillAdama

Jun 30, 2011 - 9:41PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Yeah, it's a big shame to lose you. This was a good source of discovering music.

If other people are willing to put review scores on a spreadsheet, I would be willing to write a program to process them into a final score.

nicolas

Jun 30, 2011 - 9:49PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

THANK YOU STEFAN !!

I was just listening to the Low album on my way from my job, an album I had picked here in your megacritic list.
Good luck to you !!!

Henrik

Jun 30, 2011 - 10:06PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Stefan, how can I thank you enough!? Your monthly updates of the Megacritic chart have been a tremendous additional feature to Acclaimed Music. I am forever grateful for all the work you put into this and I wish you good luck with your new turns in life.

STEFAN

Jun 30, 2011 - 10:56PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Sorry Gillingham
Of course you are this month´s real winner . But as it is the last Mega-Critic-Competition Zalojo will get his CD as well !

Jun 30th, 2011 - 10:56 PM

Otisredding

Jun 30, 2011 - 10:57PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thank you, friend.

I had an unmissable event on 21 and 31 of each month. I will remember Stefan every time I hear Smother (Wild Beasts) and C'mon (Low).

Thanks again, Stefan, and i hope your new life is full of rock'n'roll

Jonathon

Jul 1, 2011 - 12:42AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication, Stefan.

Ddiamondd

Jul 1, 2011 - 2:59PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Excellent work my friend, we all appreciate it!

Email Website

Jul 1st, 2011 - 2:59 PM

Dane

Jul 1, 2011 - 5:52PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thanks Stefan for all your hard work. Since I found your list it is my go-to for discovering new music, and now I feel like a traveler in this music world without a guide. I hope whatever takes you away from the list makes you happy, as happy as you've made us by compiling this for so long. Thanks man

Stephan

Jul 1, 2011 - 6:28PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

It's been a great pleasure Stefan, many thanks for all the hard work (and of course the two albums I won, in the first two ever competitions I believe).

Alex D

Jul 1, 2011 - 6:55PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thank you STEFAN, this game was a great addition to the AMF!

obladerek

Jul 1, 2011 - 9:08PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thanks for all the work you work you put into this month after month. As many have already said it's been a great pleasure to follow and refer to when sizing up the current music landscape. I was trying to decipher your methods a little bit and it seems that you use at least 24 sources to compile your scores. I wasn't sure, however, if you've ever stated or would mind to share which ones you count as valid for all the various regions. Thanks again and best wishes for a bright future.

Honorio

Jul 2, 2011 - 7:13AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thanks a lot Stefan for your excellent work, with the impressive accuracy and brilliant presentation. Best wishes.

Toni

Jul 4, 2011 - 2:47AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Yes, Stefan, thank you for these 3,5 years of mega-critic-chart! And I hope that, although you won't be making this thread anymore, you still continue taking part with us in the other forum topics.
Cheers!

SuperFurry

Jul 4, 2011 - 3:32AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thanks Stefan for all the great work. The Mega-Critic chart will be missed. Massive thanks for the prizes over the years too.

Moonbeam

Jul 4, 2011 - 3:30PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

This was an amazing feature of the forum. Thank you so much for it, Stefan, and good luck with your personal endeavors!

Gillingham

Jul 4, 2011 - 5:34PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

I didn't realise this would be the last time fot the chart. I'm really sorry it has to stop, but it was a great feature here on AMF. I liked both the chart as a compass for discovering new music and the guessing every month.

Great that I managed to guess my first right position, especcialy because this was the last opportunity.

Thanks a lot Stefan!

Gillingham

Jul 4, 2011 - 5:53PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

STEFAN

Sorry Gillingham
Of course you are this month´s real winner . But as it is the last Mega-Critic-Competition Zalojo will get his CD as well !

No problem. By the way, what do I do know exactly?

dr_Robert

Jul 4, 2011 - 7:52PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Stefan:
Could you tell me a little about how much work you had to put into assembling the data each month? I am trying to figure out whether I would have the time to volunteer for that work. BillAdama has already volunteered for the data processing.

I think it would be a great thing if the megacritic chart could be continued.

STEFAN

Jul 5, 2011 - 10:37AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Gillingham

STEFAN

Sorry Gillingham
Of course you are this month´s real winner . But as it is the last Mega-Critic-Competition Zalojo will get his CD as well !

No problem. By the way, what do I do know exactly?

You mail me your wish and home adress to my e-mail.

Jul 5th, 2011 - 10:37 AM

STEFAN

Jul 5, 2011 - 11:00AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

dr_Robert

I checked all the daily sources every day for all the new reviews , and assembled them alphabetically by artist . If a CD reached 3 reviews in one region and a certain average rating , it was transferred to the Mega-Critic-List .
Daily work : about 45 minutes .

The weekly sources ´NME´, ´Fly´, ´SVD´, ´Spiegel´ and ´Plattentests´ I added once a week .
Weekly work : about 45 minutes .

My subscribed monthly mags , ´Q´, ´Uncut´ and ´Musik Express´ and ´Rock and Folk´I added on a monthly base .
Monthly work : about 90 minutes .

The monthly competitions took about 60 minutes to do and the end of the month Mega-Critic-Chart with all the extras about 150 minutes .

Jul 5th, 2011 - 11:00 AM

Gillingham

Jul 5, 2011 - 12:58PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

STEFAN

Gillingham

STEFAN

Sorry Gillingham
Of course you are this month´s real winner . But as it is the last Mega-Critic-Competition Zalojo will get his CD as well !

No problem. By the way, what do I do know exactly?

You mail me your wish and home adress to my e-mail.

Thanks, I will.

Nassim

Jul 5, 2011 - 1:03PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Thanks for those hours of hard work STEFAN (and for those 4 or 5 CDs I have won thanks to you).

nicolas

Jul 5, 2011 - 1:09PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

It's cool that you are thinking about taking over.
And to Stefan, good luck for your new life
New job ?
Married ?
Children ?
Prison ? (which after all boils down to the same thing )

John

Jul 5, 2011 - 10:39PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

Everything's already been said, but I just wanted to chime in with my thanks. Thanks especially for sending out cds over the past couple years... very generous on such a little forum and I think we all thank you for bringing that competition and fun to the forums.

dr_Robert

Jul 6, 2011 - 12:08AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

STEFAN

dr_Robert

Hmmm, sorry that would require more time than I have available - even without the monthly competitions.

But maybe we can find a way to continue the most valuable parts of Stefan's work. www.metacritic.com already exists and does a pretty good job for British and American sources. Maybe we can find a way to assemble the scores for the most important releases from other sources? And even if we only did this once a year (in the summer to complement the EOY-lists) I would still find it very useful info.

BillAdama

Jul 6, 2011 - 1:49AM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

My suggestion, if anybody is inclined to spend the time:

Once a month, near the end of the month, go through Metacritic albums rated 75 or higher with 15 or more reviews. Pop the specific numbers on a spreadsheet and send them my way, and I will produce a list.

Does anybody have a strong opinion about the way I would calculate the results? I would rather do a wins-losses based method to make it so single very bad reviews don't have inordinate impact on the final score, but I can use a formula more similar to Stefan's if people would prefer.

HRS

Jul 7, 2011 - 3:12PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

It was a wonderful job. I'll miss this

I never got many of the clues, though. But that's my fault and was part of the fun. Finding out who was who.

Good luck to Stefan ... and whoever takes over.

dr_Robert

Jul 8, 2011 - 7:48PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

How about a collective effort?

We could create "users" on Rate Your Music for different magazines that rate 1-5. A meta-user "Acclaimed Music" is also created and it befriends the magazine "users".

Then the custom charts of the "user" Acclaimed Music can easily be used to see which albums receive the most acclaim around the world.

With as little as 10 non-american and non-british magazines I think this would supplement metacritic very well. If magazines from those countries were included, it would of course be even better.

Henrik

Jul 8, 2011 - 8:46PM

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dr_Robert

Sounds like a brilliant idea, but I don't know if the RYM moderators would allow critics' accounts. Maybe someone here is a moderator?

dr_Robert

Jul 9, 2011 - 5:20PM

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Henrik

dr_Robert

Sounds like a brilliant idea, but I don't know if the RYM moderators would allow critics' accounts. Maybe someone here is a moderator?

They probably wouldn't like it for copyright reasons, but we wouldn't have to advertise it. The magazine
"users" could be called Acclaimed Music 1, 2, 3, etc.

Henrik

Jul 9, 2011 - 5:27PM

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dr_Robert

Henrik

dr_Robert

Sounds like a brilliant idea, but I don't know if the RYM moderators would allow critics' accounts. Maybe someone here is a moderator?

They probably wouldn't like it for copyright reasons, but we wouldn't have to advertise it. The magazine
"users" could be called Acclaimed Music 1, 2, 3, etc.

Oh, I meant that they wouldn't like it because the ratings wouldn't be personal.

BillAdama

Jul 9, 2011 - 5:42PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

We could, however, do something like that on a website. I might be able to set up a PHP script where anybody can go to the website, enter a review source, an album, and a score, and have it saved to a central database, which one can then just run an algorithm on.

Andre

Jul 9, 2011 - 5:47PM

Re: 30/06/2011 : THE (LAST) MEGA-CRITIC-CHART : Best Reviewed Albums Of The First Half of 2011

For the past 3.5 years this has been a very welcome source for finding good new music. Would be great if it could continue in some kind of fashion. The RYM construction sounds good to me, if that's allowed to do so.

As an early winner of one of the CDs (TVOTR's Dear Science) I give special thanks to you, Stefan. Wishing you all the best!

Edit: Just saw BillAdama's post crossing mine. Collecting the data on a separate AM webserver would also be great.

dr_Robert

Jul 11, 2011 - 11:11PM

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BillAdama

If someone knows how to set this up, I think it is the better solution. The best solution would be if it could be integrated with AM I suppose. But I think we should get i started sooner rather than later so that we don't fall behind from the start.

dr_Robert

Jul 14, 2011 - 12:07AM

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dr_Robert

BillAdama

While we're waiting to see what happens concerning the above discussion, I've created a list that I think could be of interest to visitors of Acclaimed Music. It's a list of the most acclaimed albums according to Swedish media so far 2011. It is based on more than 30 media outlets.

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/dr_Robert/most_acclaimed_albums_in_swedish_media_2011/

Hopefully, a few others could do the same for their countries.

Henrik

Jul 15, 2011 - 12:06PM

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dr_Robert

BillAdama

Cool! Have you done anything else than taken the results from kritiker.se and removed the albums with less than 10 ratings? Since you're taking into account the number of ratings anyway, you might want to use an adjusted score like Stefan did. However, it seems like the number of sources has increased rapidly during the year (or is there another explanation to why Anna Järvinen has got 11 more ratings than PJ Harvey?) and then the adjusted score will not work so well.

Anyway, the formula is
Adjusted Score = (N×R + D×M) ÷ (N+D) where:
R = Average rating for the album
N = Number of ratings for the album
M = mid-range value (this could also be the average across all albums, but presumably this is unknown). kritiker.se says that "Recensionsbetyg räknas om till en gemensam skala och ett medelvärde mellan ett och fem beräknas" so the mid-range value seems to be 3.
D = Degree of disbelief. A higher number means less belief in each rating, albums will then get an adjusted score closer to M (particularly albums with few ratings). You have to decide the value of D. In your case it should probably be somewhere between 5 and 10.

Henrik

Jul 15, 2011 - 12:49PM

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Looking a bit more at kritiker.se and the number of sources for other albums that has come out during 2010-2011, it seems that the number of sources is not increasing so fast and that the adjusted score should perform well. But, if you don't want/have time to use the formula that's fine. It's only a suggestion.

BillAdama

Jul 15, 2011 - 11:59PM

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If I'm going to do something along these lines I'm going to need a server which can run PHP scripts and SQL.

dr_Robert

Jul 16, 2011 - 3:38PM

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Henrik

I wanted to "publish" a result fast so I took the easiest route. I might use your formula in the future since most of the work with creating a list has now been done, but it depends a little bit on how time-consuming the calculations are. I don't think using the formula will affect the list MUCH and the interest in the list seems to be limited.