The 100 point system, for example, is clearly unhinged. And the more pseudo-scientific the method of scoring the easier it is to see how flawed this principle of belief is. And when enough people form a consensus along these lines it also flatters us that anyone who doesn’t agree with us is wrong. This way of thinking serves to flatter us that we have a scientific understanding of music that runs much deeper than mere fashion. Why does a site that doesn’t believe in scoring music even have an Albums Of The Year Chart? The act of giving marks to an album is symptomatic of the pretence that there is an objective truth about music based on a chimerical idea about immutable good taste and never changing aesthetic principles, and the ranked album chart is merely an extreme extension of this. I sympathise if you do and in fact, a few months ago, I came very close to pulling out of having anything to do with it.
You could be forgiven for thinking that this chart is pointless.