Ha, CMU has an Albums Of The Year top ten, so Billboard has to have one too, typical. They've listed their top ten in order of popularity, based on the votes of over 50 of the US trade mag's staff members and writers. Bob Dylan's much acclaimed new long player 'Modern Times' came top, ahead of the 2006 albums from Bruce Springsteen and Gnarls Barkley. The highest rated British artists were those Arctic Monkeys who, despite not getting quite the OTT critical response in the US as they did here, came in fourth. The full top ten runs like this:
1. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
3. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
6. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
7. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
8=. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
8=. Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
9. The Beatles - Love
10. Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae