The online platform “Metacritic”, founded in London in January 1999, is famous for its extensive data evaluations. The basic material here is viewed and cumulated with other sources. Thousands of opinions, assessments or critical publications can be condensed into a kind of “common sense”.
Ultimately, all sorts of list pranks can be played with the entirety of the evaluations, in the sense of: “The best …”, or “The, the, the most beautiful e …” or the “The most quoted …”
The Gambler Review Site Top Rated Casinos trawled through over 90,000 reviews on Metacritic to identify the worst music of all time. In this case, “listener ratings” in English-speaking regions were also taken into account.
Accordingly, Justin Bieber’s 2009 album “My World” is classified as the worst album of the century with an overall rating of 1.09/10. His second album, “My World 2.0”, comes just behind with a rating of 1.22/10.
Remarkable: 2012 was voted the worst music year of the century with 2.89/10. Marked by US macho rapper Flo Rida’s hit “Whistle”, peppered with explicit lines, and by the release of Korean dance prodigy Psy with “Gangnam Style”, those surveyed saw the year as the beginning of the “super hits controversy era” in Memory.
No less remarkable: superstar Drake, who recently equaled a Beatles chart record, was identified as the “worst artist of all time”.
The genre result shows that this meta-evaluation quickly dances into the zone of arbitrariness. Here “Pop/Rock” is considered the “worst genre” of the still young 21st century.
With a (fantasy) value of 5.64/10, the mainstream variety, in which honorable acts such as the Beatles or Fleetwood Mac were once located, has come to the qualitative dog. In the last two decades, however, the everyday genre has been associated with Katy Perry or lightweights like Maroon 5 and One Republic, according to the data miners.
Ergo: so bad! Here is the complete list.