Is this really the best poll I can manage?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes.

[Poll #1085055]

Have you ever bought a record because of an end-of-year round-up? Was the NME's Christmas double issue ever a beloved yuletide tradition? What was the last end-of-year poll that actually managed to make you cross?

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Something that's always fascinated me is why - when it comes to pop - critics' lists are scrutinised to the nth degree but hardly anybody pays much attention to, let alone analyses, best-seller lists.

Contrast with the book world, for example, where what sells seems far more important.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Cos pop is a mass medium which is neurotic about whether or not it's art, and publishing is a mass medium which is neurotic about whether or not it's still popular?