ILM's 2021 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

voted :)

Sneaked mine in with an hour to go

same! just submitted my ballot, yey

+1 thank you to the pollsters <3

Voted about 10 mins before deadline. Which is pretty good by my standards.

voted!

"meet me at our spot" was nommed (by me), it just doesn't say willow/tyler cole in the spreadsheet if that's how you were searching for it

i still haven't voted lol lemme throw it together real quick

oh shit yeah gimme a few

sean what kinda numbers we looking at here

sent!!

whodunnit idunnit

voteddd literally minutes before the deadline lol, trax only as usual

oops, thought the deadline was next week. sent in my ballot anyway, looking forward to the rollout even if my votes didn't make it!

no one nommed PUNK, huh?

Oh god I've missed out an album. Do I have time to amend if I do it in the next five minutes???

Going to leave it open for about another two hours

Ty! Resubmitted!

Snuck in!

woop!

hurry up now everyone

5 minutes to drink up

all done, gonna go press some buttons now

Results are in! Looking forward to the bloodbath.

final count: 86 albums ballots, 77 tracks ballots

Auspicious number indeed for the trax poll

Any idea what the numbers were in the last few years?

yep

https://i.imgur.com/oT5MYNW.png

hard to deny there's a bit of a trend but the quality/quantity ratio is still looking good

teh borad :(

Introduce mandatory voting imo :D

Also means that everyone who voted has comparatively more influence than in previous years

where we've come from and where we've been

ILM's top albums 2010-2020

2010 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Food: The Son of Chico Dusty
2011 Destroyer - Kaputt
2012 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2013 Haim - Days Are Gone
2014 D’Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
2015 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016 KING- We Are KING
2017 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2018 Low - Double Negative
2019 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
2020 Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

ILM's top tracks 2010-2020

2010 Girl Unit - Wut
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
2016 Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
2017 Charli XCX - Boys
2018 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
2019 Busy Signal - Balloon
2020 SAULT - Wildfires

oops lol at "Sir Lucious Left Food"

yeah I can't eat sprouts either

less votes should make for more interesting results imo

thanks all for running, cya on the other side

I figured there'd be fewer voters again this year, but didn't anticipate the scale of attrition. Oof.

on the bright side weve still got another 8 years til 0 votes based on that trend

i have to admit it was very hard to get myself to put together a ballot or even noms this yr

perhaps persistent stress abt society's slow collapse has something to do w/ it idk

Understandable, but you've gotta have something to look forward to. I basically ignored the polls for all these years on ILM, but last year's was a lockdown highlight so I promised to participate.

raising my hand to say it's gonna take some time to organize this on my end for consumption, likely aiming at a January 31 rollout.

Yeah, I think both "the world is going to hell so I'm not bothering with some pointless poll" and "the world is going to hell so I need this bright spot of levity in my life" are understandable positions. The former is p much why I figured we'd be going down in numbers, more than anything about board population in general.

xp

Maybe someone else would like to roll out Tracks and you can take over for Albums? xp

We're going to take the week and start on the 31st as forks said. I suggest reading old rollout threads as a pretty entertaining way to kill time :)

Sorry, I didn’t vote. I had like 5 albums to nominate and no tracks. Reflecting on that makes me feel bad that I didn’t have the energy or focus to investigate further for the sake of the poll or especially myself. Definitely lacking the energy to be cheerleader for the few albums I actually nominated. Maybe it’s these times we’re living in, or my obsession with older music. I’ll hopefully do better in the future.

Didn’t vote this time after having done some nominations. Been too busy with family obligations and work to keep up on everything I wanted to listen to. I probably would have cast only votes for Sir Charles Jones, and Kumera Zekarias. Likely only a handful of votes for Caetano Veloso . Next year will hopefully return to voting

the decline 2020-22 looks consistent with the trend 2013-19 so i wouldn’t assume pandemic has much to do with it. i feel like dread of the imminent collapse of society has been pretty constant over the whole period too. my gueee is it’s a combination of less people on the board overall + the broader shift in music consumption towards older music as documented here https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/is-old-music-killing-new-music

*guess

there's less action on ILX in general and on ILM in particular is the way i break it down to an extent, no new blood and a slow trickle of folks stopping posting and either lurking or leaving. the core community is still made up of enough genre specialists, music industry professionals, writers and artists that I feel like we present a meaningfully interesting cross section of the year's music in a way that's manageable, diverse and excellent enough that this continues to be worth the trouble. But for how many more years? Dunno.

anyway the results are tabulated, the playlists are all programmed and moka is building the images now. The results, given the size of the participant pool is predictably unpredictable and I guarantee everyone will find some things to be happy about, some things to be upset about and some new music you don't know but will like.

the core community is still made up of enough genre specialists, music industry professionals, writers and artists

plus those of us on the fringes sometimes have a good nom or two, lol ;)