TOP TEN POP TEN - AOTY 2021 (Results)
Hello r/popheads. From January 3rd to 24th, 236 of you sent your top ten favorite albums of 2021. 409 unique albums / EPs / mixtapes were put on the lists.
You can see the top 25 below:
| Rank | Artist - Album | Total Score | Presence | ~% of Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World | 567 | 88/236 | 37% |
| 2 | Olivia Rodrigo - Sour | 513 | 90/236 | 38% |
| 3 | Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee | 512 | 82/236 | 35% |
| 4 | Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever | 489 | 87/236 | 37% |
| 5 | Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power | 409 | 72/236 | 31% |
| 6 | Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | 383 | 59/236 | 25% |
| 7 | Aly & Aj - a touch of the beat... | 357 | 50/236 | 21% |
| 8 | Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) | 343 | 54/236 | 23% |
| 9 | CHVRCHES - Screen Violence | 317 | 53/236 | 22% |
| 10 | Tinashe - 333 | 312 | 47/236 | 20% |
| 11 | Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters | 287 | 42/236 | 18% |
| 12 | Doja Cat - Planet Her | 260 | 46/236 | 19% |
| 13 | Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend | 255 | 39/236 | 17% |
| 14 | Lorde - Solar Power | 239 | 42/236 | 18% |
| 15 | Lil Nas X - Montero | 235 | 51/236 | 22% |
| 16 | Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club | 229 | 40/236 | 17% |
| 17 | Adele - 30 | 228 | 44/236 | 19% |
| 18 | Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic | 222 | 43/236 | 18% |
| 19 | Porter Robinson - Nurture | 209 | 34/236 | 14% |
| 20 | Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales | 207 | 38/236 | 16% |
| 21 | Lucy Dacus - Home Video | 203 | 33/236 | 14% |
| 22 | Slayyyter - Troubled Paradise | 190 | 32/236 | 14% |
| 23 | Spellling - The Turning Wheel | 180 | 31/236 | 13% |
| 24 | Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost | 162 | 26/236 | 11% |
| 25 | Madison Beer - Life Support | 145 | 25/236 | 11% |
Detailed results for top 10 albums.
Spotify playlist with selected songs from the top 25 albums.
Complete album list. (1-409)
##Some trivia and notes:
- The participation is noticeably down from last year (from 343 participants to 236), but the number of unique albums sent increased (from 372 to 409).
- The 10th album last year (After Hours with 583 points) got more points than the winner of this year (which is Mercurial World with 567 points). However, last year's #25 albums (Heartbreak Weather and RTJ4 with 125 points) got less points than this year's #25 (Madison Beer's Life Support with 145 points).
- The top four are very close in terms of points, and the winner was not set in stone until the last dozen lists.
- Albums from popular artists that noticeably underperformed (some of them to the surprise of no one who spent more than a minute in this subreddit):
| Rank | Artist-Album | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 131 | Bebe Rexha - Better Mistakes | 13 |
| 282 | Coldplay - Music Of The Spheres | 4 |
| 350 | Ed Sheeran - = | 2 |
| 379 | Drake - Certified Lover Boy | 1 |
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Justin Bieber's Justice got 38 points, which is 37 points more than what his previous album (Changes) got last year.
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Our ranking of Arca's kick series she released this year went: KIcK iii (111 points) > kiCK iiiii (20 points) > KICK ii (17 points) > kick iiii (3 points)
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I only checked the top 100 for validity (album being released in 2021). If you see any errors (including typos and duplicate albums), let me know in the comments so that I can fix it.
Results of previous AOTY events:
To see the rest of the schedule and past results, check the TTPT wiki page.
Posted Jan 28, 2022, 5:09 PM UTC · edited