More list to include on the spreadsheet

-ZMEmusic.com's top albums of the decade
-theTop13.com albums of the decade

Thetop13.com list appears to be based on fans votes so is probably ineligible.

The ZME list is a staff list and is definitely eligible in that regard. The list will contain 10 albums from each year, so I,m not really sure if that constitutes a proper decade list.

Regardless, here are the top 10 from 2000:

10. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
9. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
8. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
7. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
6. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the sea
5. Pearl Jam - Binaural
4. Outkast - Stankonia
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
1. Radiohead - Kid A

Hi Beans. It appears that there is both a critics' list and a readers' list that appears on The Top 13 website. The critics' list was posted on 11/1/09 whereas the readers' list was posted on 11/5/09. The critics' list is located at http://www.thetop13.com/albums-of-the-decade-L7/ and is as follows:

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
6. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
7. Portishead - Third
8. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
10. Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
11. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
12. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Thanks Viguen, I had a feeling their might be a critics list there somewhere. I must say, I thought the readers list was actually better.

Henrik, would these be eligible? And if the ZMEmusic list (10 per year) is, how should the albums be scored on the spreadsheet?

I think ZMEmusic is OK.

But thetop13, how much music critics are they? It's a page about top13 lists in general and if you click on their "music" link, these '00s lists seem to be the only music features they have.

Couldn't the top 10s all be scored by rank, and do it for every year?

So the tops of 2000-2009 would all be scored as #1 for a top 10?

Oh yeah, I forgot about how the top 10's should be added.

I agree that positions 1-10 should be added, for each year. And in row 3 enter the value 13 (as in no. of albums + 30/10).

I agree Henrik...any unfair advantage this would give an album (having ten #1s) would be offset by the small number of albums on each list. So while we'd have 10 #1 albums of the decade, each would get a fraction of the points of say, topping a pitchfork list.

Basically it'd balance out I think

I will Harold!

so wait.... is the top13 list gonna be added???

http://www.rollogrady.com/rollo-grady-top-30-albums-of-the-decade-2/

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2320308/the_20_best_albums_of_the_decade_20002009_pg6_pg6.html?cat=33

found these. Don't know if they're valid.

Here's another:

http://www.culturebully.com/best-of-the-decade

Associated Content is entirely user-generated, so that list is not eligible. The Culture Bully best-of-decade page isn't a list per se, it's an ongoing series of essays about individual songs and albums that meant something to contributors.

Rollo & Grady, though, might be a different story. This is an L.A. music blog that appears to have some legitimacy. Their list is probably eligible, even though it's a top 30 that includes 3 Radiohead albums and no Arcade Fire or LCD Soundsystem. As always, I defer to Henrik for a final verdict.