Over Christmas and New Year hundreds of you emailed us, and posted comments here at Q4music.com, to tell us your favourite albums of the past 12 months. Thanks to everyone who got in touch.

Having totted up all the votes, we can reveal that the Q Readers’ Top 10 Albums Of 2007 runs as follows…

1. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
4. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future
5. The National - Boxer
6. Editors – An End Has A Start
7. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
8. Interpol – Our Love To Admire
9. The Hoosiers – The Trick To Life
10. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver

So how does it compare with our own Best Albums Of 2007 list?

The main points of difference are Editors, Bloc Party and The Hoosiers, none of whom made our Top 50, let alone our Top 10. Klaxons, too, are evidently more popular with Q readers than Q critics: they only made Number 32 in our list, but you lot voted them in at 4.

Clearly we agree on the majesty of Arcade Fire – though there was the odd angry dissenting voice, lamenting the bullet-proof critical consensus that has attached itself to the apocalyptic Canadians.

What’s more surprising is the relative paucity of votes for The White Stripes’ Icky Thump, an album which Q critics placed at Number 2. Could it be that the public at large is just a little bored of Jack n Meg’s arch, faux-cockney shtick?

Equally starved of reader votes were The Hold Steady, a band who are, it seems, destined to be forever revered by music journalists, while being roundly ignored by actual record buyers.

All great fuel for debate, though, and thanks once again to everyone who sent us their lists. Oh – and congratulations to Ben Newman of Witney, who wins all ten albums in the list. Here’s to many more fantastic albums in 2008.