Album of the Year (website)
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Type of site | Review aggregator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Robert Thomas |
| Website | albumoftheyear |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
Album of the Year, popularly known by the initialism AOTY, is a website that aggregates reviews of music albums. For each LP, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Ratings are averaged and albums ranked in a chart intended to give an overall picture of critical appraisal of current releases, based on the averaged score out of 100.
Many review websites give a review grade out of five, out of ten, out of 100, or even an alphabetical score. AOTY converts such a grade into a percentage.
In the media[edit]
AOTY is often used by publications such as No Ripcord, Drowned in Sound and Consequence of Sound to refer to their rating.[citation needed] In January 2015, No Ripcord tweeted: "Want to keep track of all of our 2015 review scores? The folks at @aoty got you covered. One worth bookmarking."[1] The following month, Consequence of Sound published an article about the "sophomore album slump" based on a study undertaken by the website concerthotels.com. According to the article, the study's organizers began with Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time, published in March 2013, and then reviewed AOTY's album ratings to compare the scores of 80 debut records with their follow-ups.[2]
Similar sites[edit]
The site is similar to other review aggregator websites such as Metacritic and AnyDecentMusic? in that it gathers reviews to assess critical acclaim.
Charts[edit]
Once an album or release has five critic reviews from different sources, it enters the current Best Albums Chart by Critic Score. It takes 25 user ratings to enter the Best Albums Chart by User Score
References[edit]
- ↑ "Want to keep track of all of our 2015 review scores? The folks at @aoty got you covered". Albumoftheyear.org. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
- ↑ "Proof the "sophomore album slump" is a real problem". Consequence of Sound. February 13, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
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