Least-Anticipated CDs Poll Results In!

Nick Jonas & the Administration tie with Lil Wayne, with Vampire Weekend a relatively close second place.

By Fred Mills

The BLURT readers have spoken: for our most recent poll we asked you to select, from a list of a dozen first-quarter '09 new releases currently being hotly hyped by record labels and trendy/tastemaker bloggers alike, which titles were the least anticipated.

As you can see from the stats tally below, Nick Jonas & the Administration's Who I Am and Lil Wayne's Rebirth, both of which arrive in stores next week, Feb. 2, were the clear frontrunners, and it's interesting that they were tied for first place with 26% of the total vote apiece. (Given Lil Wayne's token status as a Pitchforkian hipster, maybe this represents a reactionary vote aimed at Pitchfork - the Jonas nod was kind of a no-brainer, after all, and we have to admit that record's inclusion in the poll was kind of a setup. Hey, go take your OWN poll if ya don't like it!)

Band du jour Vampire Weekend is currently ripping up the Billboard charts with 100k-plus first week sales and counting (must have been a slow first week - apparently every person on the planet has already bought Susan Boyne and Taylor Swift, and the only thing that's left to do, marketing wise, is airlift copies of those two monster sellers to Haitian refugees). So it's not surprising a backlash has already started, and we're chuffed to report that V.W.'s Contra officially comes in at second (or third) place. Natalie Merchant's Leave Your Sleep, due March 2, comes in next. Sorry Vampire Weekend and Ms. Merchant, it's not us, it's you.

Everything else is pretty well evenly spread out, although since Liars' Sisterworld, due March 9, received zero votes, that makes the band technically the winners here. We're eager to hear that one too, to be perfectly honest, so congrats to Liars, who have won an all-expenses paid trip to Orlando to see Nick Jonas & the Administration open their world tour - don't forget to cover up first, boys.

Poll Results (54 votes total)

15% w/8 votes Vampire Weekend - Contra (1-12)

4% w/2 votes OK Go - Of The Blue Colour of the Sky (1-12)

2% w/1 vote Editors - In This Light and On This Evening (1-19)

6% w/3 votes Spoon - Transference (1-19)

26% w/14 votes Nick Jonas & the Administration - Who I Am (2-2)

26% w/14 votes Lil Wayne - Rebirth (2-2)

2% w/1 vote Hot Chip - One Life Stand (2-9)

2% w/1 vote TobyMac - Tonight (2-9)

4% w/2 vote The Game - The R.E.D. Album (2-16)

9% w/5 votes Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (3-2)

6% w/3 votes Butch Walker - I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart (2-23)

0% w/0 votes Liars - Sisterworld (3-9)