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Metacritic

www.metacritic.com

Methodology

Metacritic is an album review site which collects reviews from many professional review publications and sites, compiles them, and averages their inputs to generate a meta-rating for the given album.

Pros and Cons

Metacritic offers a targeted and specific service that makes it a valuable resource when trying to search for or evaluate new music. With a few minor alterations, information like that featured on Metacritic could be used in a personalized music recommendation engine along with peer feedback, to generate more accurate recommendations.