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==Categories==
==Categories==
The first poll ran with only four categories: Top Album, Top Single or EP, Top Internet Release, and Top Overseas-based Release. The Top Video category was introduced in 2007. A separate category for EPs was created in 2008.
The first poll ran with only four categories: Top Album, Top Single or EP, Top Internet Release, and Top Overseas-based Release. The Top Video category was introduced in 2007. A separate category for EPs was created in 2008 due to the larger number of EPs that year, however, this was merged with Top Album in 2011 as there was only a small number of EPs released that year.


==Voting Platform==
==Voting Platform==

Revision as of 07:29, 4 December 2011

The MMI Listeners' Picks poll aims to establish the top favourite releases of the year among Toni Sant's Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast listeners. The poll was established on 15 September 2006 [1] when an initial list of nominations was published on Toni Sant's Blog. After this, the annual list of initial nominations has appeared sometime between late September and late November through the same channel.

Toni Sant has always admitted on his podcast and blog that he is somewhat selective with the final list of nominations, but from the published list it is fairly evident that the scope has always been to include as many titles as possible at the nomination stage.

The top selections from podcast listeners for each year are announced during the first podcast of the following year.

Categories

The first poll ran with only four categories: Top Album, Top Single or EP, Top Internet Release, and Top Overseas-based Release. The Top Video category was introduced in 2007. A separate category for EPs was created in 2008 due to the larger number of EPs that year, however, this was merged with Top Album in 2011 as there was only a small number of EPs released that year.

Voting Platform

Snap Poll was used for the very first MMI Listeners' Picks poll in 2006. However, as multiple votes from the same computer were only limited by a simple cookie on this free website poll, some individuals managed to vote more than once. This prompted Toni Sant to establish a fairer voting system via Facebook, where each account holder could only vote once in each category. The first Facebook MMI Listeners' Picks app was developed by James Attard in 2007. He also produced an upgraded Facebook app for the following year's poll. Kenneth J. Vella developed a new Facebook MMI Listeners' Picks app in 2009 and upgraded it substantially in 2010. Uptake on Facebook in 2007 was relatively low since the social networking site had not gained the level of popularity it was to enjoy in subsequent years. In 2009, the app was plagued with a number of bugs resulting mostly from a radically altered API on Facebook. 498 individual Facebook users voted in 2010.

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