Metapollism 2007

This time last year, I scraped through the best-of music polls on metacritic to determine which albums from 2006 appeared in the most polls. Now that the Village Voice Pazz & Jop and Idolator's Jackin' Pop polls are in, here are the best-polled albums of 2007 according to metacritic.

1. In Rainbows - Radiohead (565.32)
2. Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem (503.29)
3. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire (458.27)
4. Kala - M.I.A. (404.25)
5. Person Pitch - Panda Bear (289.18)
6. Boxer - The National (239.15)
7. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse (234.15)
8. Mirrored - Battles (215.15)
9. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon (189.13)
10. Graduation - Kanye West (156.10)
11. Magic - Bruce Springsteen (135.08)
12. The Reminder - Feist (130.08)
13. The Good, The Bad & The Queen (120.08)
14. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys (120.07)
15. Untrue - Burial (119.08)

It seemed like every poll had either Radiohead or LCD Soundsystem on top, so it's not that surprising that they're #1 and #2. The numbers are higher because I changed the poll to go from 20-11 points instead of 10-1 points, so the weighted numbers would be more in line with the raw numbers. Here were the "most normal" music polls listed at metacritic.

1. Idolator's 2007 Pop Critics Poll (3119.90)
2. Village Voice's 2007 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll (2958.79)
3. Billboard[Staff Consensus] (2813.74)
4. Noripcord (2791.70)
5. Prefix (2773.68)
6. Spin (2736.66)
7. PopMatters (2653.59)
8. Lost at Sea (2597.58)
9. The Onion AV Club [Staff Consensus] (2571.55)
10. Rolling Stone (2564.54)
11. Pitchfork (2466.53)
12. Amazon.com [Editors' Pick] (2409.46)

Last year the Idolator poll had more voters than the Voice poll (497-494), but the Pazz & Jop had more than 100 more voters this year (577-452). The top tens in both polls were still nearly identical.

Village Voice's 2007 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll (a survey of 577 critics)
1. Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
2. In Rainbows - Radiohead
3. Kala - M.I.A.
4. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
5. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire
6. Graduation - Kanye West
7. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
8. Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
9. Magic - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
10. Boxer - The National

Idolator's 2007 Pop Critics Poll (a survey of 452 critics)
1. Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
2. Kala - M.I.A.
3. In Rainbows - Radiohead
4. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire
5. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
6. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
7. Boxer - The National
8. Graduation - Kanye West
9. Person Pitch - Panda Bear
10. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal