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Top ten albums
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Top ten albums is a list of music albums (digital, CD, cassette or long playing records being the main formats) that are considered the best under some criteria, both of eligibility for the list (nationality, time period, genre) and the basis for decision (sales, opinion, airplay, vote). This is used both as a social construct, for music journalism and as a marketing tool. The concept has been extended in music charts to "top twenty", "top forty", "top hundred" and so forth, even so it is common to refer to the "top ten" within these charts, and not unknown to limit listings or round-ups to just the top ten. Similar concepts apply to singles and EPs and to a lesser extent to books and many other entities. =="Official" lists== Annual or current ten album lists released by music chart organizations, based on sales and radio play. For example in 1971 Deseret News lists both local and national top ten albums, the national (US) list being issued by Billboard, the local one by radio staion KSRP. Expert or celebrity opinion Top ten album lists are often published which are picked by a single person, usually a music pundit or celebrity, such lists usually contain a significant amount of accompanying explanatory text. For example Neon Filler asked expert Garry Todd to compile a genre, location and time limited Top Ten Albums From The Golden Age of UK Folk Music. Papers will also publish multiple lists, different takes by different critics, particularly where a holiday season issue has more space to fill. The New York Times in 2000 published lists by four critics. 
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