editorandpublisher.com: As 2004 ended, pop-music critics for daily newspapers recounted the year's musical highs and lows in their columns and, as critics are wont to do, tallied their favorite albums in list form. Unable to resist tabulating the results, we hereby announce the winners -- drum roll, please -- of E&P's first-ever, sure-to-be-annual, Pop Poll.
The results of Editor & Publisher's first Pop Poll:
U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (58 points)
Kanye West's "College Dropout" (54 points)
Green Day's "American Idiot" (46 points)
Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" (34 points)
The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come For Free" (25 points)
Franz Ferdinand (s/t) (22 points)
Wilco's "a ghost is born" (18 points)
The Roots' "The Tipping Point" (17 points)
Black Keys' "Rubber Factory," The Hives' "Tyrannosaurus Hives," and Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now" (15 points) [
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The results of Editor & Publisher's first Pop Poll:
U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (58 points)
Kanye West's "College Dropout" (54 points)
Green Day's "American Idiot" (46 points)
Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" (34 points)
The Streets' "A Grand Don't Come For Free" (25 points)
Franz Ferdinand (s/t) (22 points)
Wilco's "a ghost is born" (18 points)
The Roots' "The Tipping Point" (17 points)
Black Keys' "Rubber Factory," The Hives' "Tyrannosaurus Hives," and Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now" (15 points) [
more] 
