Английская Википедия:HMV's Poll of Polls

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Colour photograph of Arcade Fire performing live in 2007.

Canadian band Arcade Fire are the only act to have topped the Poll of Polls more than once.

HMV's Poll of Polls was an annual list of albums compiled by British music retailer HMV from 1998 to 2012. The listing was created each December by collating year-end polls from approximately 30 music magazines, newspapers and guides to determine the most critically acclaimed albums of the year. An album's placing in the list was determined by the number of different polls in which it was included. In the event of two records featuring in the same number of polls, the album with the highest combined placings was given the higher position on the Poll of Polls. In 2011, Let England Shake by PJ Harvey was named the best album of the year after receiving 21 nominations – the following year, Channel Orange by Frank Ocean topped the poll with 22 nominations.

The Poll of Polls was introduced by HMV in 1998, with Hello Nasty by American hip hop group Beastie Boys topping the first chart. Thereafter, the poll was aggregated using listings from more than 60 sources, including magazines such as NME and Q, newspapers such as The Guardian and the Daily Mirror, and music blogs, including Gorilla vs. Bear and Stereogum. Subsequent polls were topped by acts such as Daft Punk, Queens of the Stone Age and Kanye West. The only act to top the listing more than once was Canadian band Arcade Fire, who were number one in both 2005 and 2010 with Funeral and The Suburbs respectively.

Commentators observed a disparity between the albums that placed highly in the Poll of Polls and those that were the year's biggest-selling. Speaking about the 2008 chart, singer-songwriter Christopher Rees noted that "when records are so popular in mainstream charts, they lose favour with the critics. The quirkier the sound, the cooler it becomes in their opinion." Similarly, Jonathan Owen of The Independent contrasted the albums that had been featured in 2011's Poll of Polls against those that had sold the most that year in the UK. Although Let England Shake had topped HMV's listing, Owen remarked that "hardly anyone would agree", as Harvey's album had, at the time, sold only 130,000 copies, compared with 3.5 million copies of the year's best-seller, 21 by Adele.

Albums released through independent (indie) record labels often performed well in the poll. In discussion of the 2008 chart, John Rostron of Cardiff's The Point remarked that he had "seen a rise in the quality of independent music and of bands signed to small record labels". The following year, eight of Top 10 albums had been released by indie labels, which HMV claimed underlined "the current strength of Indie music and the vitality of the music scene in general". Three years later, 34 of the 50 albums in the chart were released on independent labels, with six featuring in the Top 10. Speaking in 2009, HMV's Rock & Pop Manager John Hirst stated that it was "encouraging to see indie labels doing so well", and that it reflected on "the vibrant state of [music] right now".

Number-one albums

Colour photograph of Beastie Boys performing live in 2007.

American hip hop group Beastie Boys were the inaugural winners of HMV's Poll of Polls in 1998.

Colour photograph of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe of Basement Jaxx sitting on a sofa.

British duo Basement Jaxx topped the poll in 1999 with Remedy, and came third with Rooty in 2001.

Black-and-white photograph of Queens of the Stone Age performing live in 2007.

Queens of the Stone Age were number one in 2002 with Songs for the Deaf, and number five in 2000 with Rated R.

Colour photograph of Kanye West performing live in 2008.

American hip-hop artist Kanye West topped the Poll of Polls with his 2004 debut album The College Dropout, and came third with Late Registration in 2005.

Colour photograph of LCD Soundsystem performing live in 2010.

American band LCD Soundsystem were number one on the chart with Sound of Silver in 2007, and number three in 2010 with This is Happening.

Year	Artist	Album	Top five albums	Ref.
1998	Beastie Boys	Hello Nasty	2nd: Air – Moon Safari 3rd: Massive Attack – Mezzanine 4th: Gomez – Bring It On 5th: Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1999	Basement Jaxx	Remedy	2nd: The Chemical Brothers – Surrender 3rd: Death in Vegas – The Contino Sessions 4th: The Beta Band – The Beta Band 5th: Missy Elliott – Da Real World
2000	Eminem	Шаблон:Sortname	2nd: Radiohead – Kid A 3rd: Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast 4th: Kelis – Kaleidoscope 5th: Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
2001	Daft Punk	Discovery	2nd: The Avalanches – Since I Left You 3rd: Basement Jaxx – Rooty 4th: Radiohead – Amnesiac 5th: Röyksopp – Melody A.M.
2002	Queens of the Stone Age	Songs for the Deaf	2nd: The Streets – Original Pirate Material 3rd: The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 4th: Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper 5th: 2 Many DJs/Soulwax – 2 Many DJs
2003	Outkast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	2nd: Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner 3rd: The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium 4th: The White Stripes – Elephant 5th: The Darkness – Permission to Land
2004	Шаблон:Sortname	Шаблон:Sortname	2nd: Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters 3rd: Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand 4th: The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free 5th: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2005	Arcade Fire	Funeral	2nd: Gorillaz – Demon Days 3rd: Kanye West – Late Registration 4th: Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise 5th: Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
2006	Шаблон:Sortname	Ys	2nd: Hot Chip – The Warning 3rd: Mastodon – Blood Mountain 4th: Lily Allen – Alright, Still 5th: Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007	LCD Soundsystem	Sound of Silver	2nd: M.I.A. – Kala 3rd: Radiohead – In Rainbows 4th: Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future 5th: Battles – Mirrored
2008	Elbow	Шаблон:Sortname	2nd: Portishead – Third 3rd: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 4th: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes 5th: Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
2009	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion	2nd: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz! 3rd: The xx – xx 4th: Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 5th: Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2010	Arcade Fire	Шаблон:Sortname	2nd: The National – High Violet 3rd: LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening 4th: Beach House – Teen Dream 5th: Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
2011	Шаблон:Sortname	Let England Shake	2nd: Bon Iver – Bon Iver 3rd: Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues 4th: Radiohead – The King of Limbs 5th: Tune-Yards – Whokill
2012	Шаблон:Sortname	Channel Orange	2nd: Jack White – Blunderbuss 3rd: Tame Impala – Lonerism 4th: Grimes – Visions 5th: Grizzly Bear – Shields

Year-end polls used

HMV's Poll of Polls used year-end, best-of charts from 30 major UK music magazines, national newspapers, websites and guides. Since its inception in 1998, the chart was collated using data from:

Magazines

• Artrocker
• The Big Issue
• Clash
• Classic Rock
• Decibel
• DJ Mag
• Echoes
• Fact
• Filter
• The Fly
• Gay Times
• GQ
• Hot Press
• iDJ
• Kerrang!
• Magnet
• Melody Maker
• Metal Hammer
• Mixmag
• Mojo
• Music Week
• Muzik
• NME
• Paste
• Q
• The Quietus
• Record Collector
• Rock Sound
• Rolling Stone
• Select
• Spin
• Time
• Time Out
• Uncut
• The Wire (Rewind)
• The Word

Newspapers

• Daily Mail
• Daily Mirror
• Daily Star
• Evening Standard
• The Guardian
• Metro
• Observer Music Monthly
• The Sun
• The Sunday Times
• The Times

Websites and other organisations

• Amazon
• BBC Radio 6 Music
• Digital Spy
• Drowned in Sound
• Get Closer
• Gorilla vs. Bear
• HMV
• Piccadilly Records
• Pitchfork
• Playlouder
• Popbitch
• PopMatters
• Pure Groove
• Rough Trade
• Stereogum
• XFM

See also

Websites that also aggregate annual lists of albums from year-end polls

• AnyDecentMusic?
• Metacritic