LakinLand Top 10 for 2001

We asked a group of well respect music experts to select the best recordings of the year 2001, but none of them answered our e-mail. So then we asked some of the people we know to do the same thing and they obliged with almost no prodding whatsoever. (A little poking maybe, but they actually enjoyed it.) The results were interesting and varied. Above is the combined top ten compiled from all the lists. Oddly enough, no one selected Is This It by the Strokes as the best album of the year, but it earned that honor by being the one that showed up on the most ballots. And something tells me that if you added up the sales totals of all ten of these albums, they wouldnít come anywhere near the total number of units moved this year by
Destiny's Child.

The Rules

Everyone was asked to submit a list of their choices for the best albums of the year. They could pick as many as they wanted to, but only their top ten picks were eligible in the voting for the overall top ten. The only rule we had was all selections had to be albums released in the year 2001. However, not everyone followed that rule, so the new rule became, "Pick whatever the hell you want and see what happens."

Vote Tabulation

In order to determine the overall list of top ten albums, a point value was given to each of the top ten positions. Ten points for a number one pick, nine for a number two pick and all the way down to one point for a tenth selection. If, for some reason, a participant didnít rank his choices in a particular order of preference, each pick was given the same point value determined by adding up the total number of points possible and dividing it by the number of selections up to and including ten - unless the person who voted was known to have a fondness for tiny hats, in which case a point was deducted from each pick and placed in a shoe box under the bed for future use. After a point total was assigned to each album on every list, all the ballots were given to our special voting consultant Katherine Harris, who was locked in a room by herself without any access to makeup until the counting of votes was completed. And when the votes were finally tallied, they were carefully reviewed by our staff and then posted in reverse order