Vote for your favourite albums and films online

The old arguments that have forever raged in pubs and round dinner tables will be settled once and for all with the launch of a ground-breaking website pollthepeople.com - the first evolving global poll of albums, films and books.

Everyone can have their say and seek out other participants with similar choices, and any titles can be purchased at the touch of a key.

It’s the brainchild of digital music mogul Glenn Cooper, who says: “Poll the People was borne out of frustration with the endless stream of magazine, TV and online polls where results were based on a very limited survey.”

“We saw an opportunity to combine the global obsession with polls and Top 5 list-making with the increasingly popular world of online communities to create a truly definitive survey based wholly on public opinion.” The public can also vote for the new polls they would like to see on the site - eg greatest footballers, hotels, restaurants, gadgets and even beauty products.

There are also discussions about creating an innovative television show format and putting “Poll The People Top 50 Rated” stickers on all albums, DVDs and books that YOU decide are among the very best.

To celebrate the launch, Nick Hornby, the godfather of Top 5s who popularised the concept in his bestselling novel Hi-Fidelity, has contributed his Top 5 albums, films and books to the Celebrity Top 5s section, alongside the likes of Snow Patrol, Keane, Michael Eavis and Newton Faulkner.

Key site features:

- Search for friends, rate their top five choices, add them to your address book and send them messages

- View “Lists Like Mine” where you are able to see which other users have matched any of your choices, allowing you to discover new experiences recommended by like-minded users, and creating a very powerful recommendation tool.

- Search for an album, book or film and find all the users on the site who have featured it in their top five and view top rated lists as voted by the entire community

- Check out celebrity Top 5s and discover what your favourite singer or writer likes

- Click through to buy recommendations from Amazon

- Invite friends to join groups where they can blog about their favourite artists, films etc and create their own private polls

- Select from a list of future polls that you’d like to see on the site or suggest new polls, such as greatest footballers or best beauty products

- Take the daily ‘People’s Poll’ which asks users for their verdict on current affairs