Wikipedia:Peer review/List of number-one albums of 2005 (U.S.)/archive1
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I've listed this article for peer review to check the quality of the prose.
Thanks, Efe (talk) 08:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: I will review this and just did the 2000 number-one albums list too. The lists in both cases seem OK, so my comments will be mostly on the lead. Here are some suggestions for improvement.
- I've said this before about these kind of lists, but I really still do not understand the use of present tense. I would tweak this to Singer Mariah Carey's comeback effort, The Emancipation of Mimi,
is[was] the best-selling album of 2004, accumulating 4.866 million units in sale[s]. (corrections as noted). - Same problem: it should be "sales" in ...accumulating 4.866 million units in sale[s] by the end of 2005
- I think this needs to be fixed too She became the first female recording artist to have topped the year-end chart since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in 1996.[2] Perhaps She became the first female recording artist to have topped the year-end chart since Alanis Morissette, with Jagged Little Pill in 1996.[2] Otherwise it reads as if Jagged Little Pill is a female recording artist.
- Would it make more sense to have all of the sentences about The Massacre in the same paragraph?
- How about Coldplay's X&Y stayed at the top for three straight weeks
; it[, and] gave the band their first number-one album.[5] ? - More suggested changes: Coldplay is the only non-American act to have topped the Billboard 200 for an extended chart run since [Canadian] Shania Twain had a five-week reign with Up!, and the
only[first] British act with the longest stay at number one since The Beatles in 2000-2001.[6] - Perhaps combine these two sentences Another posthumous chart topper was Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company, which was released three months after his death and won Album of the Year at the 2005 Grammy Awards, spurring a massive increase in sales.
- Glad to see a non-Billboard ref - I was going to suggest a copyedit, but I think if you fix all the things I noted here, I think that you will not need one.
- Why not sell out the full name of "Now that's waht I call music 19" (and 20) or whatever numbers they were?
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours,