ALBUMS (10 each)
1. Feist - The Reminder
2. Athlete - Beyond the Neighbourhood
3. Elliott Smith - New Moon
4. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
5. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
6. Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower
7. Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
8. The Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night
9. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
10. Underworld - Oblivion with Bells

TRACKS
1. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
2. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XXXChange Remix)
3. Sugababes - About You Now
4. Rufus Wainwright - Tiergarten (Supermayer Lost In Tiegarten Remix)
5. Feist - I Feel It All
6. Siobhan Donaghy - So You Say
7. The Cooper Temple Clause - Waiting Game
8. Robyn - Who's That Girl
9. Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)
10. Smashing Pumpkins - That's The Way (My Love Is)

REISSUES
1. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
2. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
5. Lisa Germano - Lullaby For Liquid Pig

ARTISTS
1. Siobhan Donaghy
2. Feist
3. Ryan Adams
4. Carl Craig
5. Radio Slave

COMMENTS
Rihanna and Feist both had the records of the year for similar reasons: When I first heard "Umbrella," it made me want to be a hip-hop producer — a pioneer of dirty synth breakbeats and delicately catchy vocal edits, intent on finding my own diva muse.

When I first heard "The Reminder," however, I felt compelled to lock myself up in a Parisian apartment with an acoustic guitar and a handful of hand-clapping friends; I wanted to sing on a bus with Jimmy Kimmel gawking at me. Feist's massive success this year couldn't obscure the fact that — for at least as long as it took before she appeared in that iPod commercial — "The Reminder" did what all classic records should do: It didn't make me want to meet Feist as much as it made me want to be her.

So why did I decide that Siobhan Donaghy was the artist of the year? Because somehow, after listening to "Ghosts," you never get the feeling that her transformation from Sugababes tween-diva to Elizabeth Fraser-understudy was anything but linear. And that's quite a hat trick, people.