Every December, British music magazineNME compiles a list of what it considers the best albums of the year. It was started in 1974. The list is usually published in one of the issues sold before Christmas – in 2006 it was published in the issue for December the 9th. The companion list isNME single of the year.
TheNME Album of the Year list is compiled by the music reviewers and independent journalists who work for the magazine and for NME.com. Each picks his or her top 20 albums of the year and hands them in to the editor. An album marked at Number One gets 20 points, Number Two gets 19 points and so on until the 20th, which gets one point. All of the points from the various top 20s are then gathered together and the overall favourites are worked out and ranked for publication in the official list. The album with the most points overall is Number One in the list, the one with the second most points is Number Two and so on.
Sometimes, winners may change in theNME Awards. For example, theNME Album of the Year for 2000 wasRated R byQueens of the Stone Age, withXTRMNTR byPrimal Scream in 2nd place,XTRMNTR was later voted the best album of 2000 however in theNME Carling Awards 2001.
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