Chris, Stefan used a Bayesian approach as well, but instead of the average metascore and the average # of reviews he used the midpoint of the possible range and an arbitrary value (50 instead of 79.8 and 10 instead of 33.24), which gave albums with many reviews an advantage, aiming to predict the EOY lists. With your formula, the albums' number of reviews have a minor influence.

My proposal:


Corresponding to 22 magazines

16 from USA and UK media: specifically means that perform more 400 reviews records a year and qualify albums rating: stars, numbers or letters

3 from Europe: between those who used those who have caught Stefan critical public

3 from Spain: I am interested heavier than those who think the Spanish critics, but I can redo the list Leaving only a magazine

To get into the top need to have at least 6 reviews

Formula: average disc A + ((A record number of Criticisms - the number of critical mediating between the top 50):2)

USA: All Music Guide; AV Club; Cokemachineglow; One Thirty BPM;Pitchforkmedia, Popmatters, Rolling Stone, Slant, Spin, Tinymixtapes

UK: Drowned In Sound, The Guardian, Music OMH, NME, No Ripcord

EUR: Gaffa; Nojesguiden; Plattentests

SPA: Playgrounmag; Mondosonoro; Jenesaispop


I would add other media from other countries but have a number of criticisms about 400 a year and qualified: Some from France, Italy, Netherlands ...?

I do not know if you understand everything. I've used the Google translator

The best albums of 2011 (update september, 13)


50 - Gil Scott-Heron / Jamie xx: We're New Here - 76,64

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49 - Foo Fighters: Wasting Light - 76,68

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48 - Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two - 76,78

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47 - Katy B: On a Mission - 76,98

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46 - My Morning Jacket: Circuital - 77,03

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45 - Battles: Gloss Drop - 77,16

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44 - Explosions In the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care - 77,23

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43 - Okkervil River: I Am Very Far - 77,48

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42 - Saigon: The Greatest Story Never Told - 77,78

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41 - Beirut: The Rip Tide - 77,78

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40 - Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise - 77,96

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39 - Radiohead: The King of Limbs - 78,16

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38 - Elbow: Build A Rocket Boys! - 78,28

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37 - Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place - 78,54

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36 - Arctic Monkeys: Suck It and See - 78,73

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35 - Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What - 78,78

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34 - Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 - 78,78

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33 - Yuck: Yuck - 78,83

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32 - The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck - 78,89

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31 - Big K.R.I.T.: Return of 4Eva - 78,92

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It's great to see someone continuing the tradition of Megacritic.

If anything I'd suggest not weighting so heavily in favor of US and UK. It'd be good to give more of a fighting chance to non-anglophone stuff.

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30 - Gillian Welch: The Harrow And The Harvest - 79,11

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29 - Iceage: New Brigade - 79,44

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28 - The Antlers: Burst Apart - 79,78

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27 - TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light - 79,92

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26 - Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo - 79,93

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25 - Zomby: Dedication - 80,01

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24 - Panda Bear: Tomboy - 80,01

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23 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong - 80,14

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22 - Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean - 80,5

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21 - Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost - 80,5

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20 - Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks: Mirror Traffic - 80,63

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19 - Bill Callahan: Apocalypse - 80,78

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18 - Low: C'mon - 80,95

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17 - EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints - 81,18

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16 - Fucked Up: David Comes to Life - 81,43

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15 - The Horrors: Skying - 81,55

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14 - Wild Beasts: Smother - 82,05

I do not know if anyone is interested in this but I continue .

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13 - Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes - 82,68

Ok. Then we move on. This is for you, Harold

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12 - The Weeknd: House of Balloons - 82,93

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11 - Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde - 83,01

The best in action

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10 - Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 - 83,03

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09 - Shabazz Palaces: Black Up - 83,09

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08 - Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact - 83,11

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07 - St. Vincent: Strange Mercy - 83,13

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06 - tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l - 83,32

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05 - Bon Iver: Bon Iver - 83,68

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04 - Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues - 84,73

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03 - Destroyer: Kaputt - 84,93

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02 - James Blake: James Blake - 85,37

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01 - PJ Harvey: Let England Shake - 89,14

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01 - PJ Harvey: Let England Shake - 89,14

Thanks for doing this. Even though it's different from Mega-Critic, the continuity is impressive - the newer entries are slotted in pretty close to where they'd likely be on MC.

Yes, thank you very much for doing this.