One last (maybe) note about Kanye's margin of victory. Measuring margin by the ratio of votes for #1 over #2, this was only the 3rd most decisive victory: Arrested Development beat Pavement 97-50 in 1992, and Beck beat the Fugees 110-58 in 1996. If we do a weighted average by taking twice the #2 album's votes plus the #3 album's, and dividing by 3, and then comparing the #1's votes to that, Kanye's win drops to 4th, after Beck over the Fugees and Sleater-Kinney, PJ Harvey over Tricky and Moby 120-71-44 (1995), and Arrested Development over Pavement and REM.
The lowest such-weighted ratios, of course, went to Dylan in 2006 and LCD Soundsystemin 2007, both of whom won on points but were 3rd on votes...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link