The albums poll combines ballots from 494 critics, who divided 100 points among 10 2006 titles. (Every individual ballot is available online.) Maximum per album: 30. Minimum: 5. Points determined placement, with total mentions (included in parentheses) used for tiebreaking.
In the singles poll, critics each voted for 10 singles, defined broadly as any freestanding song/track. No elaborate point system: one vote = one vote.
winners: albums / singles
1 Dylan, Bob - Modern Times
Columbia
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1123(95)
2 TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
4AD/Interscope
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1109(99)
3 Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Def Jam
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1031(96)
4 Hold Steady, The - Boys and Girls in America
Vagrant
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983(81)
5 Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
Downtown/Atlantic
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791(71)
6 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Domino
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718(63)
7 Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Re-Up Gang/Jive/Zomba
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673(63)
8 Case, Neko - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Anti-
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645(64)
9 Newsom, Joanna - Ys
Drag City
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626(59)
10 Waits, Tom - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-
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608(51)
11 Cat Power - The Greatest
Matador
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566(57)
12 Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Geffen
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500(49)
13 Decemberists, The - The Crane Wife
Capitol
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440(42)
14 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Matador
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423(38)
15 Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Team Love
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366(37)
16 Knife - Silent Shout
Mute
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355(31)
17 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Reprise
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354(33)
18 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Matador
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342(35)
19 Springsteen, Bruce - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Columbia
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317(31)
20 Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Sony
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314(29)
21 Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
Sound Grammar
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314(27)
22 Hot Chip - The Warning
DFA/Astralwerks
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307(28)
23 Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Sub Pop
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297(29)
24 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Interscope
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296(25)
25 Roots, The - Game Theory
Def Jam
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283(33)
26 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
V2
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281(29)
27 Cash, Rosanne - Black Cadillac
Capitol
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277(27)
28 Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / Lovesounds
Jive
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274(28)
29 T.I. - King
Atlantic
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267(24)
30 J Dilla - Donuts
Stones Throw
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249(24)
31 Scott Walker - The Drift
4AD
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245(18)
32 Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River In Reverse
Verve Forecast
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240(23)
33 Beck - The Information
Interscope
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235(23)
34 Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Atlantic
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231(26)
35 Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Merge
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231(22)
36 Spektor, Regina - Begin to Hope
Sire
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225(24)
37 Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Parlophone/EMI
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225(23)
38 The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon
Epitaph
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222(24)
39 Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Illegal Art
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212(22)
40 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
XL
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210(24)
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