Sputnikmusic

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Sputnikmusic
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Type Music website
FormatInternet
Founder(s)Jeremy Ferwerda [1]
Founded2005;19 years ago (2005)
LanguageEnglish
Website www.sputnikmusic.com

Sputnikmusic (abbreviated as Sputnik) is a music website that publishes music reviews and news entries. The site hosts both professional and amateur content. [2]

Contents

Sputnikmusic is used by the review aggregate website Metacritic. It does musical analysis, covering metal, punk, indie, rock, hip-hop, pop and other styles.

Reception

Metacritic incorporates Sputnikmusic's staff reviews into its review aggregate ratings. The site was cited by The Guardian and Neil Daniels. Michael Miller wrote that "you're likely to fine [ sic ] a wide variety of opinions in the site". A Master's thesis utilized Sputnikmusic's music database for its research, citing its "focus on non-mainstream artists" and its "encompassing database". The ethnomusicologist Jorge Mercado Méndez references Sputnikmusic as an 'acclaimed' review source adjacent to Pitchfork , while Giuseppe Catani cites Sputnikmusic's Alex Robertson alongside the NME .

Stratification and rating systems

On Sputnikmusic, there are currently four levels of reviewer, which differentiate professional and amateur content: [3]

The Sputnikmusic notation system is based on a 5-point system, starting at 1.0 and ending at 5.0 in 0.5 steps. Each note is associated with a word, ranging from "Awful" for 1.0 to "Classic" for 5.0.

Staff members are also allowed to score in 0.1 steps.

Each album analysis shows the score given by the reviewer, but also the score given by the other reviewers on an associated page where an average is calculated from all the scores.

A bar chart also shows the number of ratings each score has received for each album.

Album of the Year

YearArtistAlbumSource
2006 Converge No Heroes [4]
2007 Burial Untrue [5]
2009 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion [6]
2010 The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt [7]
2011 Bon Iver Bon Iver [8]
2012 Swans The Seer [9]
2013 Julia Holter Loud City Song [10]
2014 Flying Lotus You're Dead! [11]
2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly [12]
2016 David Bowie Blackstar [13]
2017 The National Sleep Well Beast [14]
2018 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour [15]
2019 Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze [16]
2020 Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now [17]
2021 Mastodon Hushed and Grim [18]
2022 Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter [19]
2023 JPEGMafia and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes [20]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sputnikmusic - Musicians of Sputnik #5: Kannatama « Staff Blog".
  2. ↑ Miller, Michael (2012). The Ultimate Digital Music Guide: The Best Way to Store, Organize, and Play Digital Music. Pearson Education. p. 538. ISBN   9780132982856.
  3. ↑ "Staff". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "mx: Staff Picks: Top 15 Of 2006 | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  5. ↑ "mx: Staff Picks: Top 50 Albums Of 2007 | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  6. ↑ "mx: Staff Picks: Top Albums of 2009 | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  7. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2010: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2011: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2012: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2013: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  11. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2015: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  12. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2015: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2016: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  14. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2017: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  15. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2018: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2019: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  17. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2020: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  18. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2021: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 22 December 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  19. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2022: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  20. ↑ "Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2023: 10 – 1". Sputnikmusic. 21 December 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
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