The consensus Top 10

Hip-hop and mainstream pop might dominate the sales charts these days, but with the exception of OutKast, neither genre registered strongly with The Times’ 18 pop music contributors. Their votes went mainly to the new garage-rock generation represented by the White Stripes and Raveonettes and to the singer-songwriter side of the alt-rock spectrum.

Albums are awarded 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second, etc.

*--* Artist Album Label Pts. No. 1st 1. The “Elephant” V2 73 10 3 White Stripes 2. OutKast “Speakerboxxx/The Arista 70 10 1 Love Below” 3. Radiohead “Hail to the Thief” Capitol 36 5 2 4. Joe Henry “Tiny Voices” Anti 33 4 1 5. Lucinda “World Without Lost Highway 21 3 1 Williams Tears” 6. Damien “O” DRM/Vector/Wa 20 3 1 Rice rner Bros. 7. (t) The “So Much for the Virgin 19 4 -- Thrills City” 7. (t) Neil “Greendale” Reprise 19 3 -- Young 9. The “Give Up” Sub Pop 15 2 1 Postal Service 10. Raveonet “Chain Gang of Love” Columbia 14 3 -- tes

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Key: Pts.=Total points; No.-Number of ballots on which album was represented; 1st=Number of No. 1 votes.

The first-place votes

The White Stripes: Robert Hilburn, Karla Blume, Steve Appleford

Radiohead: Richard Cromelin, Ernesto Lechner

OutKast: Dean Kuipers

Joe Henry: Natalie Nichols

Lucinda Williams: Phil Sutcliffe

Damien Rice: Steve Hochman

The Postal Service: Kevin Bronson

Ludacris, “Chicken-N-Beer” (Def Jam South): Soren Baker

Dido, “Life for Rent” (Arista): Steve Baltin

Ojos de Brujo, “Bari” (La Fabrica de Colores, Spain): Agustin Gurza

Stefon Harris, “The Grand Unification Theory” (Blue Note): Don Heckman

Various artists, “Buddyhead Presents: Gimme Skelter” (Nettwerk): Lina Lecaro

Sparks, “Lil’ Beethoven” (Palm Pictures): Randy Lewis

Rodney Crowell, “Fate’s Right Hand” (DMZ/Epic): Michael McCall