Stats and Analyses of the Top 20 Albums of 2010

Hi. Normal service has nearly resumed. For one last hurrah, we're going to re-cap on the past month, where I undertook a daily challenge of review my chosen Top 20 Albums of 2010. Rather than force you to trawl through them all, I thought it'd be cool to list them in one place, along with links to each of their reviews. I also thought it'd be cool to do some statistical analysis afterwards.So, without further ado, let's get into it...

The Final Top 20 Albums of 2010 were:

1. MGMT - Congratulations
2. Sia - We Are Born
3. Girl Talk - All Day
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
7. NaS and Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
8. Weezer - Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition)
9. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
10. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
11. So So Modern - Crude Futures
12. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
13. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl - Record Collection
14. Goldfrapp - Head First
15. Plan B - The Defamation Of Strickland Banks
16. Michael Jackson - Michael
17. The Brunettes - Paper Dolls
18. Eminem - Recovery
19. Spoon - Transference
20. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist

Genre break-down is as follows:

And, because I find it to be an illuminating way of seeing 'range' in a person's music taste, here's the dominant gender breakdown of vocalists:

 

And here's a few miscellaneous statistics, which could act as a guide for 'the perfect album' if you're an aspiring artist out there making your debut:

• Average length of track on the albums: 4:09
• Average length of the albums themselves: 46 minutes
• Shortest album: 34 minutes
• Longest album: 75+ minutes
• Fewest number of tracks: 9
• Most number of tracks: 18