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] which distinguishes it from similar sites such as Pitchfork , Tiny Mix Tapes, Rate Your Music and IMDb.

Contents

Sputnikmusic is a recognised source used by the aggregate Metacritic. It provides a reference source for musical analysis, covering metal, punk, indie, rock, hip-hop, pop and other styles.

History

Sputnikmusic was founded in January 2005 as an offshoot of the Mxtabs network, where album reviews appeared on the MusicanForums section. The site developed a stratification system to distinguish its professional Staff-generated content from its amateur User-generated content. In 2006, the site's Staff writers were recognised as a professional source by the aggregation site Metacritic. [3] The site has since been praised for the subjective emphasis in its review style, [4] the credibility of its professional content, [5] [6] [7] the role of its user-generated content, [8] [9] the diversity of its opinions, [10] the extent of its coverage, [11] and its comprehensive database, [12] as well as its willingness to promote obscure artists such as Off Minor, Kayo Dot, Iosonouncane and Trophy Scars. The ethnomusicologist Jorge Mercado Méndez references Sputnikmusic as an 'acclaimed' review source adjacent to Pitchfork, [13] while Giuseppe Catani cites Sputnikmusic's Alex Robertson alongside the NME . [14]

Stratification and rating systems

On Sputnikmusic, there are currently four levels of reviewer, which differentiate professional and amateur content: [15]

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 [16]
2007 Burial Untrue [17]
2009 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion [18]
2010 The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt [19]
2011 Bon Iver Bon Iver [20]
2012 Swans The Seer [21]
2013 Julia Holter Loud City Song [22]
2014 Flying Lotus You're Dead! [23]
2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly [24]
2016 David Bowie Blackstar [25]
2017 The National Sleep Well Beast [26]
2018 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour [27]
2019 Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze [28]
2020 Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now [29]
2021 Mastodon Hushed and Grim [30]
2022 Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter [31]
2023 JPEGMafia and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes [32]

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