Draft:Album of the Year (aggregator)

Album of the Year (often abbreviated to AOTY) is an online encyclopedia and aggregator of music releases and films. Users can catalog items from their personal collection, review them, and assign ratings in a out-of-100 rating system. The site also features community-based charts that track highest-rated and lowest-rated releases from users and contemporary non-user critics. One of the aspects that differentiates Album of the Year from similar websites like Rate Your Music is that it also aggregates published non-user critic feedback similar to Metacritic and AnyDecentMusic? instead of just user ratings.

Features
The main idea of the website is to allow the users to add albums, EPs, singles, videos, bootlegs, and other miscellaneous released musical projects to the database and to rate them. The rating system uses a scale of 0 to 100. Users can likewise leave reviews for AOTY entries as well as create user profiles. Album of the Year is generated jointly by the registered user community (artists, releases, biographies, etc.); however, the majority of all content and edits must be approved by a moderator to prevent virtual vandalism. As of February 2024, all releases added to the site require a cited source to prove their existence.