Saturday, December 23, 2017

Categories / Attributions / Rules

Week 1 - An album considered to be 2017's best
Week 2 - A tribute album
Week 3 - An album released in the 1950s
Week 4 - An album of classical music
Week 5 - An album that won a 2018 Grammy Award
Week 6 -  An album of children's music
Week 7 - An album by the current Billboard #1 song holder
Week 8 - An album from Central America
Week 9 - An album from an independent artist
Week 10 - An album of electronic music
Week 11 - The soundtrack from 2018's Best Picture Academy Award winner
Week 12 - An album by a musician turned actor
Week 13 - An album by an actor turned musician
Week 14 - An album with no lyrics
Week 15 - An album released in the 1960s
Week 16 - An album found in a resale shop (Random draw from the CD bin)
Week 17 - An album from Africa
Week 18 - An album by a solo musician who used to be in a band / group
Week 19 - An album released in the 1970s
Week 20 - An album on a music service I've never used before
Week 21 - An album that's sold over 15 million copies
Week 22 - An album of non-Christian religious music
Week 23 - An album from an island
Week 24 - An album that has the word 'Summer' in the title
Week 25 - The first album I ever owned
Week 26 - An album that charted at #1 when I was in high school ('98 - '01)
Week 27 - An album I own in CD form
Week 28 - An album recorded by a duo
Week 29 -  An album from the Middle East
Week 30 - An album from a person/group from Illinois
Week 31 - An album from a feminist artist
Week 32 - An album released in the 1980s
Week 33 - A jazz album
Week 34 - An album released the week I was born
Week 35 - An album from a trans artist
Week 36 - An album that got a 10.0 review from Pitchfork
Week 37 - An album from East Asia
Week 38 -  An album released in the 1990s
Week 39 - An album recorded at home
Week 40 -  My favorite album released in 2018, so far.
Week 41 - An album of choral music
Week 42 - An album released in the 2000s
Week 43 -  An album from Europe ( the continent, not the band)
Week 44 -  An album by a supergroup / collaboration
Week 45 -  NOW That's What I Call Music (randomly generated number)
Week 46 - A musical soundtrack
Week 47 - A parody album
Week 48 - An album of Christmas music
Week 49 -  An album from South America
Week 50 - An album released in the 2010s
Week 51 - An album from a one-hit wonder
Week 52 - An album that was considered to be 2018's Best Album



I was inspired by Sonos' 2016 Listen More challenge , and got some help from the fine folks at Metafilter to come up with some additional categories.  As much as possible, I will try to get a different album for each with no overlaps.  I will try to listen to the album at least 3X through over the course of the week to get familiar with it.