86 top-10′s submitted, 486 unique releases submitted resulting in a top 448 releases of 2011; yeah, the call for year-lists seems to be quite a success. It’s not a big surprise the magnificent Let England Shake-album by PJ Harvey ended up on number one in the We Are Incubate year-list 2011, followed by The War On Drugs‘ Slave Ambient (as heard live at Incubate 2011) and Smoke Ring For My Halo by Kurt Vile. The War On Drugs featured in 19 of the submitted lists, followed by PJ Harvey (18) and Kurt Vile (17).

The top-20 also includes Incubate(d) alumni John Maus (We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves), EMA (Past Life Martyred Saints), True Widow (As High as the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth), James Blake (S/T), tUnE-yArDs (W H O K I L L) and Wooden Shjips (West).

A few stats:
- There were 486 unique releases submitted in 86 top-10′s. This means the average list includes 5,65 albums that are not in any other list
- 312 releases (64,2%) are in just one top-1o, 62 (13%) are in two lists
- The Whole Love by Wilco is the first album in the top list that’s not number one in any of the submitted top-10′s. Still, it’s number five in the top-list.

The top-50 can be found below, including links to the albums on Spotify. If you’d like to listen to  all almost all (yeah, some artists are still not on it) artists in the top-50, check out the special We Are Incubate album year-list 2011-playlist on Spotify. You can also download the full top-448 list (Excel spreadsheet) which also includes all 86 individual top-10′s, Plus you can find a tab with the Incubate-employees’ choices which slightly differs from the regular list..

Thanks to all submitters:
Richard Mathijsen (Incubate), Erik Luyten (Incubate), Barry Spooren (Incubate), Gijs Garenfeld (Incubate), Jelle Agema (Incubate), Peter Meeuwsen (Incubate), Joost Heijthuijsen (Incubate), Vincent Koreman (Incubate), Frank Kimenai (Incubate), Jaimy Lucardi (Incubate), Stefan Kuschnig, Jeroen van Gaans, Theo Ploeg (Journalist), Tijs Heesterbeek (Effenaar), Alex Bonam, Wouter De Waal (Nu.nl / 3VOOR12/Tilburg), Bram de Jong, Will Samson, Romeo Vermue, Hans Vrijmoed (Kindamuzik), Koen Gijsbers, Tom van Bavel, Tom Wouters, Justin Faase, Marc van der Holst, Antal Derene, Jonas van Overwaelle (Cuttingedge.be), Mathijs Nicolai, Maartje Buise, Johan van Hattum, Levi Huijnen , Jan Verbunt, Maurice Dielemans (Kindamuzik), Mike Dobber (Nikoo), Maurice Dumont, Fons Moers, Tjeerd van Erve (Nu.nl), Ruud van Esch (Kindamuzik), Bas Ickenroth (Kindamuzik), Robin Geurts (3VOOR12/Tilburg), Martijn Veenman, Atze de Vrieze (3VOOR12), Serge de Vries, Mathieu Janssen, Joris Rietbroek (Kicking The Habit), Gerrit van Hoven (Brabants Dagblad), Eduard Versteege (Ekko), Herman Nijhuis, Remco Brinkhuis, Coen Schilderman (FileUnder), Willem Zenhorst, John Doran (The Quietus), Glen Rowlan, Benedikt Eiden, Rutger Brouwers, Sven Schlijper, Niels Vinck (Kindamuzik), André Kuijpers, Rob van der Zwaan (Festivalinfo), Levi van Huygevoort, Hein Verstappen, Loes Everink, Sjuul Stultjens, Marcel Kamphuis (Festivalinfo), Dyon Schlebos (Incubate), Gerko Telman, Jantien Borsboom (Incubate), Stef Siepel, Hans Rebers, Jeffrey Zweep (ROAR E-Zine), L. van Barneveld (Crazyland), Brent Oostrum, Jasper Willems (FileUnder), Frits Wiersum, Joost P., Alex van der Hulst (Journalist), Eric Teeuwen, Eelke van Houtum, Age Versluis, Jan Rijk (Dutchpix.com Photographer), Johan Gijsen (Tivoli), Marcel Verhoeven, Erik Zwennes (3VOOR12), Tom Roelofs (Photographer), Marjolein de Vliegher (Het Burgerweeshuis), Pierre Oitmann (Nu.nl, KX Radio, Muziek.nl)

FYI: The number 1 on each list received 10 point, the number 10 received 1 point.

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