YAY (was starting to worry that Toby would have my balls on a plate if Gaga missed out by a single point there). I just edged Confessions on a Dancefloor above it on my scoring purely because it all flows so perfectly and works better as an actual album, as opposed to having more stand out songs. Absolutely brilliant winner and easily the best thing Gaga has done.

 

Thanks for this Liam, Ryan & Umi <3

Somewhat... typical winner I won't lie, but not bad results all around. Mostly shocked at how (comparitively) poorly Katy and Rihanna did, I'm pretty sure Teenage Dream got more nominations than any other album :o

I think 6th is about as good as I dared hope for COADF so yay for that. Like I said earlier there's only 3 songs on The Fame Monster I ever want to hear again so not really that pleased to see it win. Totally overrated album.

Aphrodite finishing last just does not make sense when there's some utter shit above it...

Some of those results are very surprising compared to the results from the top 100 stage! :o I'll post the top 30 from the previous stage at some point so you can all have a look, if we hadn't had this final stage we would have had a different winner!

Final scoreboard (position / artist / album / UK peak, year / points

 

01 Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (#1, 2009) // 107pts

02 Girls Aloud - Tangled Up (#4, 2007) // 102pts

03 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (#3, 2005) // 100pts

04 Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels (#5, 2010) // 96pts

05 Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor (#1, 2005) // 88pts (more 12s)

06 Britney Spears - Blackout (#2, 2007) // 88pts (less 12s)

07 Rihanna - Loud (#1, 2010) // 82pts

08 Florence & The Machine - Lungs (#1, 2009) // 81pts

09 Rihanna - Rated R (#9, 2009) // 76pts

10 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (#1, 2006) // 75pts (more 12s)

 

11 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (#1, 2010) // 75pts (no 12s)

12 Leona Lewis - Echo (#1, 2009) // 67pts (more 12s)

13 Madonna - Ray Of Light (#1, 1997) // 67pts (no 12s)

14 Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (#1, 2006) // 60pts

15 Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (#4, 2004) // 56pts

16 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (#1, 1977) // 55pts (same 12s, same 10s, more voters)

17 Girls Aloud - Chemistry (#11, 2005) // 55pts (same 12s, same 10s, less voters)

18 Lady Gaga - Born This Way (#1, 2011) // 54pts

19 Robyn - Body Talk (#47/#38, 2010) // 53pts

20 Ellie Goulding - Lights (#1, 2010) // 52pts

 

21 The Saturdays - On Your Radar (#23, 2011) // 51pts (more 12s)

22 Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (#1, 2007) // 51pts (no 12s)

23 The Saturdays - Chasing Lights (#9, 2008) // 47pts

24 Nelly Furtado - Loose (#4, 2006) // 44pts

25 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (#1, 2009) // 42pts

26 Delta Goodrem - Mistaken Identity (#25, 2004) // 41pts

27 Beyonce - I Am... Sasha Fierce (#1, 2008) // 39pts

28 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (#1, 2005) // 38pts

29 Little Boots - Hands (#5, 2009) // 34pts

30 Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite (#1, 2010) // 25pts

Gaga smashing the top 2.

:lol: Well spotted.

Loud surely?! It has the hits and good album tracks whilst Good Girl Gone Bad is a bit shit once you look past the four great singles/three other singles.

 

So it was close between Loud and Rated R in the end!!!

 

 

Predictable winner but much rather that than Girls Aloud. I'm very pleased to see something older like "Rumours" do so well and beat out some more obviously typical Buzzjack albums.

Right, here is the top 30 from Round 2 of the competition. Of course, this was only to find out the top 30 albums for the final stage but if the final stage didn't exist, this would have been the result!

 

01. Rihanna - Loud | 295 points | Number of voters: 14

02. Rihanna - Rated R | 284 points | Number of voters: 15

03. Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster | 275 points | Number of voters: 12

04. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream | 259 points | Number of voters: 14

05. Girls Aloud - Tangled Up | 226 points | Number of voters: 10

06. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 206 points | Number of voters: 9

07. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels | 203 points | Number of voters: 12

08. Nelly Furtado - Loose | 193 points | Number of voters: 11

09. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway | 193 points | Number of voters: 9

10. Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor | 188 points | Number of voters: 11

 

11. The Saturdays - On Your Radar | 182 points | Number of voters: 11

12. Florence & The Machine | 179 points | Number of voters: 10

13. Britney Spears - Blackout | 179 points | Number of voters: 7

14. Leona Lewis - Echo | 170 points | Number of voters: 9

15. Ellie Goulding - Lights | 166 points | Number of voters: 10

16. Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite | 160 points | Number of voters: 9

17. Lady GaGa - Born This Way | 160 points | Number of voters: 9

18. Little Boots - Hands | 158 points | Number of voters: 10

19. Delta Goodrem - Mistaken Identity | 156 points | Number of voters: 8

20. Robyn - Body Talk | 153 points | Number of voters: 9

 

21. The Saturdays - Chasing Lights | 152 points | Number of voters: 10

22. Beyoncé - I Am... Sasha Fierce | 151 points | Number of voters: 8

23. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You | 146 points | Number of voters: 9

24. Girls Aloud - Chemistry | 145 points | Number of voters: 7

25. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black | 144 points | Number of voters: 9

26. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds | 144 points | Number of voters: 9

27. Madonna - Ray Of Light | 144 points | Number of voters: 6

28. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours | 142 points | Number of voters: 8

29. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad | 140 points | Number of voters: 10

30. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten | 140 points | Number of voters: 8

 

31. Taylor Swift - Red | 138 points | Number of voters: 8

 

Very interesting!! :o

WHY did there have to be another round of voting after that?! :( Loud winning would have been fab! <3 Still not sold on I Am... Sasha Fierce being that low though. :cry:

That top 10 is quite weak, only Blackout and Breakaway are standouts for me.

Unwritten was last so that's a better result :D Breakaway only 9th though, no no no. Loud would have been a brilliant winner too though!

 

Red so close to the final though :o Pleasantly surprised.

Yeah I would've preferred Loud winning tbh. Far better album than TFM imo even if GaGa is more creative than Rihanna.

Oh that's not a bad result at all, I do actually like 7 out of the top 10 albums and that's a far higher proportion than I had expected. Bravo Buzzjack!

 

Naturally it's far too biased towards recent albums, the lack of Michael Jackson, Madonna's Like A Prayer etc is down to the average age of the member base here - after all, older albums tend never to be as good retrospectively unless you experienced them at the time.