[Shaun]

Alright, so I have no idea how popular this will even be but that's alright because the previous edition only lasted for eight albums anyway... but here's how this will work.

Each week, a participating member will nominate an album - released in 2020 - for TiBB to evaluate over the course of the week. Ideally we'll be choosing major releases so as not to alienate people who just really don't care about Anna Calvi or whomever. Since we're on the cusp of a major pop release at midnight tonight, it only makes sense that the club opens with Chromatica by Lady Gaga.

So, starting from midnight tonight any member can - until next Thursday - reply in the thread with discussions about the album, favourite tracks, how it stands compared to previous albums, etc... I'm obviously not going to tell you what you can and can't post about but I will ask for one thing: a score out of ten. At the end of the listening week, I'll add up all of the scores, divide it by the number of scores multiplied by ten, and work out a percentage from that - pretty much how the scoring system works for Metacritic. A score is the only essential requirement from anyone wishing to take part, but please back up your score with reasoning so this can be a little bit more of an interesting thread than a string of meaningless numbers! Oh and by score out of ten, I am lenient with halves and other decimal placings. If you really want to fine-tune the minutiae of your score between a 7.4 and 7.3, then go ahead babe!

I'm not under any delusions; I fully expect this to have peaks and troughs because TiBB cannot feasibly care as much about a week of Christine and the Queens as much as they'll care about a week of Gaga/Katy/Kesha/Britney/Rihanna etc, but as long as we can get a good dollop of 5-10 scores per album, the game can theoretically keep going until we die in 2021 from the third Corona wave! Anyone is welcome to participate, new or not.

I would ask that people judge albums fairly based on personal enjoyment, and don't seek to just...poo on stuff that is enjoyed by members you dislike... but I am fully aware of what TiBB is and is capable of, so, I'll set that little stillborn idea down the River Ganges and wish it well.

I'll update the OP with a Spotify link for the album currently under scrutiny.

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Album 1 — Lady Gaga - Chromatica — Score: 83 (29/5-4/6) - 17 reviews
Album 2 — The Weeknd - After Hours — Score: 68 (5/6-11/6) - 9 reviews
Album 3 — Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters — Score: 82 (12/6-18/6) - 11 reviews
Album 4 — The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form — Score: 53 (19/6-25/6) - 4 reviews
Album 5 — Haim - Women In Music Pt. III — Score: 74 (26/6-2/7) - 8 reviews
Album 6 — Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? — Score: 87 (3/7-9/7) - 9 reviews
Album 7 — Soccer Mommy - Color Theory — Score: 79 (10/7-16/7) - 6 reviews
Album 8 — Tame Impala - The Slow Rush — Score: 71 (17/7-23/7) - 5 reviews
Album 9 — Taylor Swift - folklore — Score: 69 (24/7-30/7) - 9 reviews
Album 10 — Grimes - Miss Anthropocene — Score: 90 (31/7-6/8) - 6 reviews
Album 11 — La Roux - Supervision — Score: 77 (7/8-13/8) - 4 reviews
Album 12 — Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately — Score: 91 (14/8-20/8) - 4 reviews
Album 13 — Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher — Score: 93 (21/8-27/8) - 4 reviews
Album 14 — Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia — Score: 85 (28/8-3/9) - 4 reviews
Album 15 — Katy Perry - Smile — Score: 45 (4/9-10/9) - 4 reviews
Album 16 — Purity Ring - Womb — Score: 68 (11/9-17/9) - 4 reviews
Album 17 — Declan McKenna - Zeros — Score: 67 (18/9-24/9) - 6 reviews
Album 18 — Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour — Score: 78 (25/9-1/10) - 4 reviews
Album 19 — Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine — Score: 88 (2/10-8/10) - 4 reviews
Album 20 — Kiesza - Crave — Score: 73 (9/10-15/10) - 3 reviews
Album 21 — beabadoobee - Fake it Flowers — Score: 72 (16/10-22/10) - 3 reviews
Album 22 — Ava Max - Heaven and Hell — Score: 48 (23/10-29/10)
Album 23 — Ariana Grande - positions — Score: tbd (30/10-5/11)
Album 24 — Little Mix - Confetti — Score: tbd (6/11-12/11)
Album 25 — Kylie Minogue - Disco — Score: tbd (13/11-19/11)

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Scoring system:
100-81: Universal acclaim
80-71: TiBB enjoyed it quite a lot
70-61: A strong showing
60-51: Very mixed results, indicating either "nobody cared about this album" or "everybody cared about this album in contrasting ways"
50-41: A very lukewarm score, barely worth considering
40-31: TiBB did not like this album
30-21: TiBB wish this album did not exist
20-0: TiBB will not recover from this mistake