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Posted by: awardinary 24th October 2020, 06:00 PM

Get your inner detective at the ready again for we have another album cover quiz for you to feast your eyes on! Due to the generally positive feedback received earlier this year when I hosted my first album cover quiz, I was happy to volunteer to host another one (though I will attempt a different quiz next time round).

The theme I’ve chosen for this quiz is 21st Century Albums, that’s any studio album released in the UK on or after the year 2000. Every year so far this century is represented in this quiz and the selection of 40 covers below are from varying genres. Some years will feature more than others. There is no set chart peak criteria here, though many of these albums would have peaked relatively high in the UK or elsewhere, but not all of them.

Additionally, this album cover quiz has a few bonus questions which you may wish you try and crack. Correctly count the number of albums from the selection which peaked at #2 to receive bonus points! You can also get bonus points for guessing how many albums are self-titled, which years are featured the most and which album that did not chart at all.

The deadline for entries is Saturday 31st October 2020 at 23:59 and the results will come the following day. http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?act=Msg&CODE=4&MID=21587 working numerically across each row of 4 images until you reach the bottom row.

You can score points as follows;

10 points for correct artist and album.
or
5 points for correct artist (without album name)
or
5 points for correct album (without artist name)

and there are lots of ways to earn extra points including;

25 bonus points for correctly guessing the number of albums which peaked at #2 in the UK Albums Chart (this includes any album which failed to reach #1 but reached at peak at #2)

25 bonus points for correctly guessing the number of ‘Self-titled’ albums (this includes any album that features the artists name in full as part of the album title)

10 bonus points for correctly guessing which year is most represented in this quiz (this includes any album which had it’s UK release in that year)

10 bonus points for correctly guessing which album did not chart in the UK Albums Chart

Get started!



Participants: (26)

AaronTM
Ansel
Bjork
Blade
chrissmith276
CianS
Cremey
Dan17F1
danGnation
jimwatts
jlj
M4NGO
MichaelMyers
n4yr
Nina West
PeteFromLeeds
RabbitFurCoat
Riser
Sarah
StoneDragon
Tefo
The Grim Bréaper
The Hit Parade
TS0301
vibe
XhannahlongX

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 24th October 2020, 06:05 PM

Oh my goodness I literally bought both #1 and #40 in a charity shop this afternoon, what a coincidence (I also bought one other album that isn't in here but on well)

Quite a few I recognise here but I'll need some time to find them all!

Posted by: CianS 24th October 2020, 09:39 PM

Thanks for this. It always astounds me what my brain can remember....

Posted by: XhannahlongX 26th October 2020, 04:18 AM

#38 is frustrating me so much

Posted by: jlj 26th October 2020, 01:41 PM

I own a few of these but not many is a few of these will be guesses!

I do recognise some it’s just trying to work out where from

Posted by: awardinary 26th October 2020, 08:21 PM

First entrant confirmed, and incidentally the winner of my last Album Cover Quiz, but will they win this round too...

Posted by: chrissmith276 27th October 2020, 12:23 AM

I sincerely hope so

Posted by: awardinary 27th October 2020, 06:36 AM

Just to say I’ve had to revise one of my bonus questions slightly after it was pointed out to me that one year had one album less than I had originally counted. So there is only one year for you to guess instead of two now. Apologies for the error.

Posted by: M4NGO 28th October 2020, 10:24 AM

Do we have to be spot on with the bonus questions? or will you give us a few points if we're one number out?

And also, for guessing which album didn't chart, will we still get the points if we pick the correct number, even if we don't get the artist/title?

Posted by: awardinary 28th October 2020, 11:42 AM

Good questions! I think when it comes to stating the numbers in the bonus questions I will use the same criteria as last time and only accept correct answers, so if they are one or two out then I won’t be awarding points sorry. I’m sure other quizmasters would have to make a similar judgement about this sort of thing.

However I will be lenient as to the album which didn’t chart, so if you identify the artist name or album name then half points will be awarded. If you can only identify the image location on the grid without an artist or album name then I will simply award 1 point, but that one extra point could make all the difference! I hope that’s fair.

Posted by: jlj 28th October 2020, 01:33 PM

Ok that female on the motorbike one is sending me crazy!!!

I was pretty sure i knew who it was but I’ve looked at my old 00s collection and it wasn’t who I first thought

Posted by: M4NGO 28th October 2020, 01:43 PM

I'm sure this is different to what you did last time but I won't argue with the quizmaster

Posted by: M4NGO 28th October 2020, 01:44 PM

Yeah I'm stumped with that one too! And the blue fist isn't what I first thought, but I know I definitely know that album!

Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 28th October 2020, 06:21 PM

Hoping to have got around 15 of these. 6 & 37 the two that have frustrated me most

Posted by: Cremey 29th October 2020, 12:42 PM

Number 30 was the most frustrating one for me. Still no idea what it is

Posted by: M4NGO 29th October 2020, 01:00 PM

Yeah 30's the one that I'm stuck on. Are they both sharing the same top or what?

Posted by: awardinary 29th October 2020, 01:31 PM

30 was intended to be a tad bit obscure but if you don’t get it you’ll find out why in the results!

Posted by: XhannahlongX 29th October 2020, 09:44 PM

omg the disrespect towards #30, it's iconic

Posted by: awardinary 29th October 2020, 10:11 PM

More entries please, just over 48 hours to go.

Posted by: The Hit Parade 30th October 2020, 12:08 AM

Thanks to all the time spent in charity shops I've recognised quite a few of these without looking anything up. Embarassingly, two of the titles I can't remember are albums I know I own... I can even remember where I bought them.

Posted by: awardinary 30th October 2020, 07:01 PM

I can imagine most of these albums have been in a charity shop once or twice in their life before.

I will send some kind reminders out tomorrow afternoon for any yet to take part!

Posted by: MichaelMyers 30th October 2020, 11:23 PM

Answers sent, very poor at this though but had a go.

Posted by: awardinary 31st October 2020, 12:00 AM

24 hours left!

Posted by: XhannahlongX 31st October 2020, 05:03 AM

Sent, gave it a good go and guessed my way through the bonis questions

Posted by: awardinary 31st October 2020, 11:59 AM

Just 12 hours left to send in your answers to my quiz!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 31st October 2020, 12:05 PM

I'll send my answers in tonight!

Posted by: jlj 31st October 2020, 12:46 PM

Numbers 3 and 6 are really testing me here. I either own them or they were big recent releases because I definitely remember them I just don’t know where from

I think ive figured out the non charting album here but guessing the rest of the bonus ones.

Posted by: awardinary 31st October 2020, 07:22 PM

Last push for more entries please, with results to come tomorrow evening hopefully.

Posted by: Blade 31st October 2020, 07:23 PM

Sorry I am planning to do this still, will get cracking soon!

Posted by: awardinary 31st October 2020, 10:00 PM

Up to 16 entries now with two hours to go.

Posted by: Bjork 31st October 2020, 10:11 PM

I'm gonna give it a last minute shot but it's gonna be a messy job done in 10 minutes

Posted by: Tefo 31st October 2020, 10:31 PM

Hopefully not many more people will enter as I want to finish top 30 with my embarrassing performance

Posted by: awardinary 31st October 2020, 11:22 PM

Now on 19 entries, any final participants as we reach the deadline?

Posted by: The Hit Parade 31st October 2020, 11:53 PM

Sent mine. If only 19 other people have entered I might make the Top 20.

Posted by: Blade 31st October 2020, 11:58 PM

Sent! That was... not my finest performance but I did a bit better than I thought I would about an hour ago.

Posted by: Grim Bréaper 1st November 2020, 12:00 AM

I only recognise like 5, I'll send those in but I'm not devoting any more time to it as it'll just stress me out for minimal increase in leaderboard position xx

Posted by: dandy* 1st November 2020, 12:04 AM

I've only just noticed this so probably won't enter... but I think I know quite a lot - including the much in question #30! I've never heard it but I just think it's obvious who it is from the picture!

Posted by: awardinary 1st November 2020, 12:04 AM

Thank you everyone for your entries! We reached 25 participants by the deadline set, and I hope to begin with the results tomorrow evening.

I appreciate you all getting your answers to me, but I’ll accept any late answers from anyone yet to take part so long as it’s by midday tomorrow at the very latest.

Posted by: Blade 1st November 2020, 12:07 AM

I got this one too

Posted by: Grim Bréaper 1st November 2020, 12:12 AM

I lied, I spent slightly longer staring at the pictures and I got up to 11/40 before truly hitting the point where none of the rest are familiar enough to feel worth the effort thinking more about. Randomly guessed at the bonus questions cos why not xx

Posted by: Cremey 1st November 2020, 08:55 AM

Ohhh I’ve just got #30 haha. Turns out I’ll get half points for it anyway I think, it’s the artist I thought it must be, but I didn’t get the name of the album 🙃

Posted by: The Hit Parade 1st November 2020, 12:41 PM

39 is the one that was really bugging me. I did eventually put something down for it but I'm not convinced it was right.

Posted by: Nina West 1st November 2020, 03:27 PM

Sent mine in, answered 34 of them there was some that I just couldn't get (I know I'm gonna be gutted at some of these I've missed especially #13)

Posted by: awardinary 1st November 2020, 04:53 PM

Part 1 of the results to come later this evening, all answers counted and the reveal will be soon.