Three years ago, Bruno Mars' "24K Magic" won album of the year, but Metacritic critics put it dead last among the five albums nominated.
Music critics and Grammy voters have frequently been at odds over the years. For every time they agreed, such as The Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band winning the 1967 award for album of the year, there were two or three times they didn't, such as Christopher Cross sweeping the 1980 awards.
The inception of the review aggregation site Metacritic.com in 2001 has given us a handy way to measure critical opinion. Their scores on music, movies, TV and games offer something of a second opinion by which we can review the work of the major awards shows.
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