My blog carnival “Music of the Year 2007” is closed – thanks to all 16 participants.

I had asked:
- Your song of the year?
- Your album of the year?
- Your live concert of the year?
(Alternatively, if you weren’t at a noteworthy concert: Live album/DVD of the year.)
Preferrably, it should be new releases of 2007, but if you came across something older and like that more than any new stuff, that’s also okay.
Quite varying music tastes have shown up – partly even at the same blogger – and even though I personally don’t like all of the mentioned music, it was actually interesting to listen to the songs and albums that were mentioned (some linked directly, some via YouTube searches etc.).
I can’t really create a hit list – but there were two clear winners:
- Timbaland: 3½x with “Apologize” as best song, 1½x “Shock Value” as best album;
- Genesis: the “Turn It On Again” tour was mentioned 5x (though not visited 5x).
I might create a special award to send to these two, but I think they’d laugh at me at best. 
Following is the alphabetical list of all participants – some mentioned more than one, some runners-up (in fine print, which caused the “half” counts above). On the bloggers’ posts (all German), there are sometimes also links to videos or homepages and explanations:
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