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Next up will be your favorite albums and songs of 1981. I know 1981 gets a bad rap, but I think it's a fantastic year! Let's see what your favorites are!
A few things remain the same with the decade poll, and a few things will be different.
What will remain the same is that I will ask you to post ranked lists of your favorite albums and songs of each year. Keeping with recent tradition, the top 10 albums and songs from each year will automatically qualify for the final, and albums and songs in the 11-20 range will become eligible to be "wildcard" entries. At the end of the 10 yearly polls, the top 50 of the 100 candidates will qualify for the finals based on a new wildcard point system:
Wildcard points = (Yearly points)/(number of ballots)
The biggest change is the point system. Your ranked albums and songs will be assigned points using the following formula:
300/(rank + 2)
Moreover, I will assign points to all of your ranked entries, not only your top 15. Lists must have a minimum of 5 albums and songs to be eligible, but feel free to come up with extended lists if you like - every ranked album and song will receive points!
The deadline for your 1981 lists is 11:59pm forum time on March 31st.
Formatting:
It would be helpful to me if you could use the same delimiter between your rank and the artist as you use to separate the artist from the album/song. Something like 1 | Prince | Controversy works great!
Eligibility:
Any song (including a re-recording of an older song) is eligible if it was released in 1981. I will use the following hierarchy to determine eligibility:
1. AM
2. Discogs/RYM
3. Wikipedia
If you include a song or album you think is questionable, it would help me if you could indicate the source it comes from (album/EP/single).
And we're off!