Sputnikmusic#Staff's Top 50 Albums

Metacritic incorporates Sputnikmusic's staff reviews into its review aggregate ratings.{{cite web |last1=The Administrators of Metacritic |title=Sputnikmusic |url=https://www.metacritic.com/publication/sputnikmusic?filter=albums |access-date=25 July 2023 |website=Metacritic}} The site was cited by The Guardian{{cite news |last=Swash |first=Rosie |date=9 March 2007 |title=Does Joss Stone need to go to album rehab? |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/mar/09/news.rosieswash |access-date=25 July 2023 |website=The Guardian}} and Neil Daniels.{{cite book |last=Daniels |first=Neil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rl2MAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR7 |title=Killers: The Origins of Iron Maiden, 1975-1983 |publisher=Soundcheck Books LLP |year=2014 |isbn=978-0957570023 |pages=39–40 |access-date=25 July 2023}} Michael Miller wrote that "you're likely to fine {{sic}} a wide variety of opinions in the site". A Master's thesis utilized Sputnikmusic's music database for its research, due to its "focus on non-mainstream artists" and its "encompassing database".{{cite thesis |last=Levine |first=Lauren E. |title=Act Like a Punk, Sing Like a Feminist: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Feminist Themes in Punk Rock Song Lyrics, 1970-2009 |date=May 2015 |access-date=26 July 2023 |type=MA |publisher=University of North Texas |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801944/}} The ethnomusicologist Jorge Mercado Méndez references Sputnikmusic as an 'acclaimed' review source adjacent to Pitchfork,{{cite thesis |last=Méndez |first=Jorge Mercado |title=Caribbean Vaporwave: The Internet as Social Amplification |date=July 2022 |access-date=25 July 2023 |degree=PhD |publisher=Kent State University |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2734709294 |chapter=1 |id={{ProQuest|2734709294}}}} while musicologist Giuseppe Catani cites Sputnikmusic's Alex Robertson alongside the NME.{{cite book |last=Catani |first=Giuseppe |title=Pick & rock: Quando la musica va a canestro |publisher=Arcana |year=2020 |isbn=9788862318822 |page=177}}

On Sputnikmusic, there are four levels of reviewers, which differentiate professional and amateur content:{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/staff.php|title=Staff|website=Sputnikmusic|access-date={{date|16feb24}}}}

• Staff Reviewers: these are the editors who contribute to the professional section by producing analyses and reviews. Their reviews are referenced on Metacritic.
• Contributors: These writers are recognized by the current Staff members as good enough writers to be featured. Nevertheless, they are not taken into account by Metacritic or Wikipedia.
• Emeritus: status given to former Staff members who no longer contribute to the site. Their reviews are considered professional.
• User: this category includes all other people who are not listed at a higher level. They can add new reviews, artists and albums to the database, as well as edit and submit reviews or lists.

The Sputnikmusic notation system is based on a 5-point system, starting at {{formatnum:1.0}} and ending at {{formatnum:5.0}} in {{formatnum:0.5}} steps. Each note is associated with a word, ranging from "Awful" for {{formatnum:1.0}} to "Classic" for {{formatnum:5.0}}. Staff members are also allowed to score in {{formatnum: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.

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