For this year's rankings, I decided to use data: I rated every single song on every single album I added to my library this year. Hit the jump to see the rankings across genres, track counts, and what I learned about emotions vs analytics...

This website from the Tokyo Digital Music Syndicates lets artists crowd-source pressings of their own music on vinyl records and it is one of the coolest platforms I've seen: Qrates...

Stay home for the holidays and check out this site from WESTSIDE BOOGIE: Everythings For Sale...

Next up is an interactive 3d website from one of my favorite artists: Saba...

This side-scrolling game for the amazing up-and-coming artist Gaidaa is such a treat: Falling Higher...

"Top five dead or alive and that's just off one LP Network Graph?" This clever project applies PageRank to the Top 5 MC debate and visualizes the top MC's according to the MC's themselves: Top 5 Rappers of All Time...

Next up is a dope on-going graphic design project focused on Hip-Hop statistics and data visualization: Web of Bars...

Courtesy of Okayplayer, check out this great look at the the run-up and impact of The Root's "How I Got Over" on its 10 year anniversary: How The Roots’ ‘How I Got Over’ Became Their Crowning Achievement Of The New Millennium...