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| Type | Music website |
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| Format | Internet |
| Founder(s) | Jeremy Ferwerda[1] |
| Founded | 2005; 19 years ago (2005) |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
Sputnikmusic (abbreviated as Sputnik) is a music website that publishes music reviews and news entries. The site hosts both professional and amateur content.[2]
Sputnikmusic is used by the review aggregate website Metacritic. It does musical analysis, covering metal, punk, indie, rock, hip-hop, pop and other styles.
Metacritic incorporates Sputnikmusic's staff reviews into its review aggregate ratings. The site was cited by The Guardian and Neil Daniels. 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, citing its "focus on non-mainstream artists" and its "encompassing database". The ethnomusicologist Jorge Mercado Méndez references Sputnikmusic as an 'acclaimed' review source adjacent to Pitchfork, while Giuseppe Catani cites Sputnikmusic's Alex Robertson alongside the NME.
OnSputnikmusic, there are currently four levels of reviewer, which differentiate professional and amateur content:[3]
The Sputnikmusic notation system is based on a 5-point system, starting at 1.0 and ending at 5.0 in 0.5 steps. Each note is associated with a word, ranging from "Awful" for 1.0 to "Classic" for 5.0.
Staff members are also allowed to score in 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.
| Year | Artist | Album | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Converge | No Heroes | [4] |
| 2007 | Burial | Untrue | [5] |
| 2009 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | [6] |
| 2010 | The Tallest Man on Earth | The Wild Hunt | [7] |
| 2011 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | [8] |
| 2012 | Swans | The Seer | [9] |
| 2013 | Julia Holter | Loud City Song | [10] |
| 2014 | Flying Lotus | You're Dead! | [11] |
| 2015 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | [12] |
| 2016 | David Bowie | Blackstar | [13] |
| 2017 | The National | Sleep Well Beast | [14] |
| 2018 | Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour | [15] |
| 2019 | Laura Stevenson | The Big Freeze | [16] |
| 2020 | Charli XCX | How I'm Feeling Now | [17] |
| 2021 | Mastodon | Hushed and Grim | [18] |
| 2022 | Ethel Cain | Preacher's Daughter | [19] |
| 2023 | JPEGMafia and Danny Brown | Scaring the Hoes | [20] |
