Talk:Blue Weekend

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"It is currently the highest-rated album of 2021 on [Metacritic]" is a hyperbolic statement that was added to this article on the same day the album was released. It is an increasingly trivial thing to note, considering it's gone from first to second (June 15th) to fourth (July 1st) to third (July 6th) and will likely change several more times over the course of the year. Only the original claim has a proper source to back it up. None of the other albums in Metacritic's top 4 (Conflict of Interest (album), Carnage (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis album) and Call Me If You Get Lost) include a "currently the Xth highest-rated album of 2021" statement on their pages. There is no good reason to include one here either before January 2022, when we'll definitively know how well the album was rated compared to other ones from 2021. There might not even be any point in including it then either, since there'll likely be a bunch of end-of-year lists to supersede it. -- I need a name (talk) 22:01, 6 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

1. As long as it's attributed to Metacritic, it's not hyperbolic, it's a simple statement of fact.
2. It's noteworthy to be the third highest rated album at the halfway of the year point on the most popular aggregator in the industry. Especially because there are no qualifiers - it's not limited to genre or region or anything.
3. I don't buy into your slippery slope argument - if it slips down to 18th best reviewed album, then we can remove it at that point. There's no reason to future-proof it to that degree. If that was a problem, we wouldn't/should list aggregate scores at all, as they're constantly changing in the first few months of release.
4. Same goes for potential future year end lists - if/when the album makes any year-end lists like that, it can be removed then.
5. WP:OSE - None of those examples are in particularly good shape - two out of three are stubs or start class level. They're not a good point of reference or standard for this. Sergecross73 msg me 23:31, 6 July 2021 (UTC)Reply