Fun fact #1
There was just one artist on my List this year that had placed in a previous edition. 2024 is Orange Goblin’s third appearance on The List, but all 19 other acts were first timers.
That is the lowest number of recurring acts since 2001, when there were none. But 2001 was only the second time I wrote a list, making it highly unlikely that an artist would put out another record the very next year that also made it (plus I only listed eight albums in 2000, and only ten in 2001). Yet even in 2002 there were two returning artists (Feeder and Coldplay), and there have been at least two (often more – sometimes a lot more – than two) every year since. Until now.
Fun fact #2
Plovers’ #1 ranking this year means Australia has become only the sixth nation to produce an artist that has topped my List, across what is now twenty-five editions. Suffice to say, it is not a geographically diverse bunch.
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United Kingdom |
11 |
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United States |
10 |
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Australia |
1 |
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Canada |
1 |
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Poland |
1 |
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Sweden |
1 |