The Spotirama Essentials 2011 (aggregated Top 50 Albums)

2011

This is an aggregated chart based on all the 2011 Top 50 Albums lists I've published so far. The rule is simple: I assign 50 points to #1 album, 49 points to #2, 48 points to #3 and so on. I will keep this playlist updated, with the new ones coming and I'm doing something similar with songs. So... enjoy!

P.S. No countdown order, this time. It's from #1 to #50.

TRIVIA:
Albums featured in all critics' lists so far: Bon Iver (Bon Iver), Smoke Ring For Halo (Kurt Vile)
Albums in all lists but one: The King of Limbs (Radiohead)
Albums in all lists but two: Let England Shake (PJ Harvey), Helplessness Blues (Fleet Foxes), Strange Mercy (St. Vincent), WHOKILL (tUnE-yArDs)
#1 Albums: three times (PJ Harvey), two times (Adele), one time (Bon Iver, Girls, Florence + The Machine, Destroyer, Fucked Up, The Antlers)


THE SPOTIRAMA ESSENTIAL 2011 
(aggregated Top 50 albums, based on EOY critics' lists)
Sources: lists by Amazon.com, Intro, Mojo, NME, Paste, Q, Rolling Stone, Spin, Stereogum, The Fly, Uncut
Albums available on Spotify: 47/50 (94%)

1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (=)
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (=)
3. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For Halo (+1)
4. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (-1)
5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (=)
6. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (+5)
7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (=)
8. The Horrors - Skying (-2)
9. Metronomy - The English Riviera (+3)
10. Tune-Yards - Whokill (-2)
11. James Blake - James Blake (+3)
12. Yuck - Yuck (+7)
13. Wild Beasts - Smother (-4)
14. Adele - 21 (-4) (just four songs)
15. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (-2)
16. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (+21)
17. Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials (-2)
18. The Decemberists - The King is Dead (-2)
19. Wild Flag - Wild Flag (+11)
20. Destroyer - Kaputt (+13)
21. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (-4)
22. Wilco - The Whole Love (-4)
23. Lykked Li - Wounded Rhymes (+11)
24. Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne (-3)
25. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire the Mountain (+7)
26. Feist - Metals (+1)
27. White Denim - D (-7)
28. My Morning Jacket - Circuital (-6)
29. Washed Out - Within and Without (+7)
30. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (-7)
31. EMA - Past-Life Martyred Saints (+9)
32. Real Estate - Days (-7)
33. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (-9)
34. The Weeknd - House of Balloons (+9)
35. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix (-9)
36. Josh T. Pearon - Last of the Country Gentlemen (-8)
37. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See (-8)
38. Drake - Take Care (+8)
39. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What (-8)
40. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest (-5)
41. Beirut - The Rip Tide (ne)
42. Battles - Gloss Drop (ne)
43. Little Dragon - Ritual Union (ne)
44. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (ne)
45. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (-7)
46. The Antlers - Burst Apart (-7)
47. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (ne)
48. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (-1)
49. Bjork - Biophilia (-8)
50. Black Keys - El Camino (ne)

Out of the chart, with this update: Smith Westerns, TV on the Radio, Jonathan Wilson, The Civil Wars, The Vaccines, Cults.

Listen to it on Spotify:
lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0779)
mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0780)