Album Club Analysis

[MartinT]

With over a year of Album Club in the bag, and for a bit of fun, I thought I'd analyse the distribution of albums and scoring to see how it looks to date. I have graphed the analysis on two axes: number of albums submitted per decade; standardised mean score from the voting. This is the result as of the date of this post.



You can see that the most popular decade is the 1970s with a big dip in the 1980s. The relative popularity of the 2010s, with only three years represented, reflects I think the age group of many of our members.

The mean scores are interesting, with the 1950s scoring the best. There's an upturn from the 1980s to the 1990s and another from the 2000s to 2010s.

It certainly seems that the 1980s were the crappest for quality music, but the 2000s score the lowest of all.

Top five albums
1: Week 60 Mile Davis
2: Week 52 Muddy Waters
3: Week 43 Wishbone Ash
4: Week 57 Black Sabbath
5: Week 64 James Carr

Bottom three albums
66: Week 14 Britney Spears
65: Week 44 Slovo
64: Week 56 Raison d'Etre

All comments and discussion welcome!